Along with the physical health, mental health holds equal amount of importance in making a person. Healthy body, soul and mind makes a complete and content person. All these three components prepare you for bigger image of life. While we are paying attention to our physical being, our mental being has to be equally sound. Discussing our mental health is still an ongoing taboo in our society. Call it growing competition or increasing standards of life, the cases of anxiety, depression and stress are multiplying with every year. So, spreading awareness about the mental health is equally important. Of course, a balanced diet and unaffected lifestyle habits maintains the mind health but it affects much more than we generally hover on it.
Your current choice of eating healthy can give us a stress free and disease free future well being. Many risks such as heart disease, heart stroke, cancer, diabetes are controlled by a wholesome diet. Here, by healthy diet, we are mainly talking about fruits and veggies. As it sound son cliché, you may choose to go with your normal diet plan which often consists junk only. But, researches show many different and more improving results. Like, the department of Psychology at Otago, New Zealand have researched and concluded that binging on more fruits and veggies may bring unbelievable improvements in the psychological well-beings within just 2 weeks.
Dr. Tamlin Conner who is the main researcher worked with his team and concluded that adults who were given more fruits and veggies every day for 14 days felt and unbelievable boost in vitality and motivation. So, a healthy diet must contain two cups of fruits and three cups of vegetables every day.
Conner and team assembled a team of 171 students from the age group of 18 to 25 for the study. TO one team, normal meal was served, one team was served extra fruits and vegetables every day and one group was provided prepaid vouchers and reminders to eat more fruits and veggies.
The group which was served extra serving of fruits and vegetables every day experienced an increased amount of vitality, fresh mood and positive motivation.
