Can Your Diet Affect Anxiety and Panic Attacks ?
Can Your Diet Affect Anxiety Disorders and Panic Attacks ?

"What a silly question" I hear you say.
 
Have you ever heard the 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 bearing of mind and health.

However the actual turn of phrase was not used in English until the 1920s or 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 was used in 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 healthy with diet. That publication imprinted the term / phrase into the public consciousness.

Lindlahr is likely to have used the phrase in his radio talks in the late 1930s which probably reached a huge audience.

I saw a recent article on a good night drink that listed foods That Can Cause Feelings of Anxiety and Panic or Relaxation that you may like to read. In it the author talks about Caffeine, Caffeine in Coffee, Effects of Caffeine, and Caffeine Withdrawal Symptoms in a very simple and easy to understand way.

Caffeine is a harmful drug. And as the post says, “it may be a socially acceptable drug but it has a number of traits in common with a multitude of unaccepted drugs such as amphetamines, cocaine and heroin . Caffeine triggers the same biochemical mechanisms as these narcotics to stimulate brain function”.

I don’t know about you but I often feel jumpy after I have consumed too much coffee and now I realize that I’m probably not imagining it.

Among other interesting tit bits within the post I was interested to read about a new type of drink that helps you ‘chill out’ as opposed to those harmful “Energy drinks” like Red Bull that are usually just chock full of caffeine.

Good Night Drink is a refreshing non toxic solution that is specifically designed to help you relax and help you become sleepy (hence the catchy name).

Good Night Drink does not include Melatonin; it uses the age old Valerian root extract instead. Valerian was used as a medicinal herb to treat anxiety and insomnia 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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