MOOD FOOD – healthy food for a good mood
How would you like to feel? Energised, happy, relaxed, healthy, focused or passionate? By eating the right kinds of foods and snacks you can induce these moods, and there’s a new website to help you do just that, without making it a big performance.
Mood Food makes it easy to eat and drink the optimum foods and liquids to put you in the best of moods by giving helpful tips and up-to-the-minute nutritional advice from experts around the world.
Better still, Mood Food puts together delicious and reliable ranges of over 450 natural, nourishing products to achieve the mood, or moods you want to achieve, and delivers them to your door.
These mood foods are all healthy with no artificial ingredients; most have no added sugar and some wheat-free also. They are all sourced from ‘good guy’ brands known for their passion and integrity in producing great tasting, simple, wholesome foods and snacks that have not been messed around. Nairn’s, Meridian, Pertwood, Yogi Tea, Alara and Equal Exchange are some of the many brands chosen by Mood Food. Many have Fairtrade credentials too.
This new concept is the brainchild of Scot Morna Laird, who has worked for many years championing healthy foods that contain tasty, premium ingredients, including her time as brand manager at Nairns. She has recognised the powerful new trend that identifies the logical link between nutrition, mood and mental health and how natural food and healthy snacking can be directed to help you to be on best form. And it’s not only ideal for you but can help your children to be on sunniest form and better able to concentrate through their school day.
It’s also a helpful site for those on special diets, and all the products are suitable for vegetarians with some appropriate for vegans as well.
If you want to feel happy, the site suggests three basic food rules:
- Keep your blood sugar even by eating a low GI diet, including plenty of wholegrain foods, fruits and vegetables and avoid sugary foods and snacks;
- Eat foods rich in the amino acid, Tryptophan, which helps the body to produce the happy chemicals - serotonin and melatonin. Tryptophan-rich foods include low fat dairy foods such as cottage cheese, chicken, turkey, oats, egg whites and tuna.
- Eat foods rich in essential fatty acids or omega 3’s including oily fish, seeds and nuts and cold pressed oils like flaxseed.
To find out more about how to eat well and feel great without being a diet slave visit www.moodfoodcompany.co.uk
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