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Can Your Diet Affect Anxiety and Panic Attacks?
Dumb question, right?
Have you ever heard your mother saying “You are what you eat”?
This phrase was first used by the French writer Anthelme Brillat-Savarin who wrote in 1826:
"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es."
[Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are].
Brillat-Savarin did not mean the quotation to be taken literally. He was hypothesizing that the food one consumes influences one's state of mind and health.
However the actual expression was not established in English until the 1920s and 30s when the nutritionist Victor Lindlahr, a strong believer in the idea that food controls health, developed the Catabolic Diet.
The earliest known printed example is from an advert for beef in a 1923 edition of the Bridgeport Telegraph, for 'United Meet [sic] Markets':
"Ninety per cent of the diseases known to man are caused by cheap foodstuffs. You are what you eat."
In 1942, Lindlahr published You Are What You Eat: how to win and keep health with diet. That publication imprinted the termphrase into the public consciousness. Lindlahr is likely to have used the term in his on air talks in the late 1930s which probably reached a quite large of a audience.
I recently saw an article on 'a good night drink' that listed drinks That Can Cause Feelings of Anxiety and Panic or Relaxation that you may like to read. In it the author discusses about Caffeine, Caffeine in Coffee, Effects of Caffeine, and Caffeine Withdrawal Symptoms in a very simple and easy to understand way.
Caffeine is a toxic drug. And as the post says, “it may be a socially acceptable drug but it has in common with a number of traits with more socialy loathed drugs such as amphetamines, cocaine and heroin . Caffeine triggers the same biochemical mechanisms as these drugs to stimulate brain function”.
I don’t know about you but I often feel jumpy after I have ingested too much coffee and now I realize that I’m probably not imagining it.
Among other interesting tit bits within the article I was interested to read about a new type of drink that helps you ‘chill out’ as opposed to those “Energy drinks” like Red Bull that are usually just over flowing full of caffeine.
Good Night Drink is a refreshing non harmfull answer that is specifically designed to help you relax and help you fall sleepy (hence the catchy name).
Good Night Drink does not include Melatonin; it uses the age old Valerian root instead. Valerian was used as a medicinal herb to treat anxiety and insomnia insomnia and anxiety by the ancient Greeks and the Romans. Hippocrates prescribed it as a remedy for insomnia and anxiety.
Valerian is often used as a natural alternative to taking benzodiazepine drugs to calm anxiety and panic attacks as well as for insomnia and as a sedative for nervous tension, hysteria, excitability, stress and intestinal colic or cramps.
If you would like to try it you can order Good Night Drink online or from the Good Night Drink Australia Facebook Fanpage. (These are not affiliate links, I do not get anything if you buy Good Night drink).
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