This Is The Ideal Amount Of Fruits & Veggies For Lowering Stress, Study Suggests – mindbodygreen.com

The researchers were not able to determine why eating more fruits and veggies enhances mood, but Radavelli-Bagatini suggests their high nutrient count likely plays a role. “Vegetables and fruits contain important nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, flavonoids, and carotenoids that can reduce inflammation and oxidative stress, and therefore improve mental wellbeing,” she said. 
And she’s not alone in that thinking: There’s an entire field of medicine (called nutritional psychiatry) dedicated to…

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