The Practical Nutritionist, LLC
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Audrey J Pellegrino, M. Ed, M.HN,CNW®
Nationally board Certified Nutritional Wellness
Holistic Nutritionist/Educator
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Food for your Mood
A warm New Hampshire day with the sun shining and fresh green leaves and purple lilacs will lift your mood faster than any over the counter medication. The great thing is that this year we had an early spring and should have months of sunny weather to enjoy. All winter long there have been articles written and research conducted regarding vitamin D and how we need it to maintain our health and our moods. Now, with twenty minutes of sunshine, on our skin each day we will create our vitamin D and uplift our moods naturally.
Suppose you cannot go outside each day and you want to be sure that you have enough vitamin D, what can you do? There are foods that are rich in vitamin D and may help to elevate and maintain your positive springtime mood. It is no coincidence that fish is one of them, and there is no better fishing time than in the spring. Picture yourself in a river, on a boat or by a stream. The splash of the water, the sun on your face and the rhythm of casting for fish, all of these things are relaxing and improve your mood. Then you bring in a beauty of a brook trout or salmon, and get to grill it on an outdoor fire and eat it for dinner. You just spent a relaxing hour or two fishing which improved your mood, you ate the fish which improves your vitamin D and mood.
Mushrooms are also high in vitamin D. Now, I do not recommend that you go into the woods and pick your own mushrooms, unless you are trained to do so. But a good walk in the woods, pretending you are looking for mushrooms will do wonders to improve your mood, as well as increase your vitamin D by encouraging your body to create it from the sunlight.
This spring take the time to relax, replenish your vitamin D and improve your mood at all the same time. You can do that by enjoying the outdoors and all that is offered!