Panic Away Will Teach You Why Eating a Healthy Diet Can Ease Anxiety Attacks

Making a conscious choice to eat healthier can reduce or ease the anxiety or panic attacks that inflict you.

Anxiety sufferers are usually deficient in vitamins and minerals such as the B-complex vitamins and magnesium.

B-Complex: Help the nervous system to function properly and help to bring energy to people who are constantly stressed.

Magnesium: Helps muscles to relax and maintenance of the heart muscle.

Instead of reaching for your favourite not so healthy foods to comfort you temporarily, reach for a healthy meal or snack, it can even out your mood or emotions and help to reduce stress and give you more energy.

Try to eliminate white sugar or refined products such as white rice, white bread, white sugar, and white pasta, these foods will give you a temporary high but then send you for a crashing low, causing mood swings and leaving you feel tired and lethargic.

Limit your caffeinated drinks or beverages. Consume in moderation, considered as a mild stimulant it affects the nervous system by increasing your heart rate. Also a diuretic, it can increase water loss through urination. Healthier alternatives would be water, herbal tea, milk or natural fruit juice.

Eat foods that give you a boost!

What do I eat?

1. Fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains can boost the body’s stores of vitamins and minerals that are depleted by continual stress.
2. Incorporate beans to your diet. Whether lentils, soybeans, navy or pinto they contain optimal amounts of magnesium that aids in muscle relaxation.
3. Munch on some celery. Celery contains active compounds called phthalides, which can help relax the muscles around arteries and allow those vessels to dilate. With more space inside the arteries, this can reduce blood pressure.
4. Foods high in fiber, such as brown rice, brown bread, whole wheat pasta and low in salt.
5. Skip the trans-fats. These are all bad for your heart so if it says “hydrogenated“ or “modified“ stay away.
6. Eat yogurt. Yogurt contains B-12 which can help in producing healthy nerve cells.
7. Add spinach, turkey and greens to your diet. These foods contain tryptophan which helps to regulate your appetite and can improve your sleep at night.
8. Salmon or chicken. Optimal amounts of niacin (B-3) which is needed for overall energy production.
9. Nuts or seeds. Particularly almonds and pumpkin seeds they are rich in vitamin B12 and zinc which helps to boost your mood.
10. Chocolate – Now we’re talking! this isn`t just any kind of chocolate though it needs to be dark chocolate. Dark chocolate is rich in magnesium which so many people are deficient in.  Make sure to look for the highest percentage of cocoa.

It may not happen overnight, it may be a few weeks before you really start noticing the changes. It worked for me and I was anxiety sufferer for over 10 years but by just incorporating some dietary changes my whole mind and body felt stronger and healthier!

Learn more natural techniques to stop your anxiety or panic attacks. Barry Joe McDonagh was a long time anxiety sufferer himself and his One Move Technique from Panic Away has helped thousands of people conquer their anxiety permanently.