Nov 9, 2009 12:30 pm US/Pacific
Eating By Design
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Dr. James Rouse says foods rich in key amino acids like tryptophan, which helps to build serotonin, a powerful brain chemical that helps create a more balanced and peace-filled mood and outlook.
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Eating by Design is an opportunity to embrace the true meaning of diet, which comes from the Greek word diaeta, meaning way of life. Certain foods with key nutrients and compounds serve as building blocks that support "optimally abundant" thinking, sustained energy for movement and balanced chemistry for rest and recovery.
To support abundance minded thinking choose foods rich in key amino acids like tryptophan, which helps to build serotonin, a powerful brain chemical that helps create a more balanced and peace-filled mood and outlook. You can build serotonin by choosing tryptophan-rich foods like poultry, whole grains and legumes.
To help with your overall mental fitness you can build greater focus, concentration, overall optimism and help out your memory too with building your natural stores of acetylcholine. This can be deliciously achieved through choosing a breakfast of oatmeal and other whole grains, soy foods and by snacking on nuts and seeds.
To energize your workouts and move you from fatigued to fantastic look to build your stores of dopamine. Dopamine is all about energy, and you can support your movement mission with foods rich in the amino acids tyrosine and phenylalanine, which can be found in calcium rich low fat dairy products, eggs, rice and fish.
To bring about balance, to fuel your recovery after a stressful time and to help with healing sleep disturbances make the choice to fortify your natural "happiness and balance hormone" called norepinephrine. This can be done by choosing poultry, legumes, red vegetables, spinach, apples and thank goodness cocoa!
A wonderful "side benefit" of eating by design is that it is naturally balanced with lean proteins, metabolically supportive carbohydrates and heart healthy fats, which can be helpful in supporting healthy weight management and in the prevention of many chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and many types of cancer.
Eating by design can be a vital piece and pleasure on the path to greater well-being and abundance!
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