A Nutritional Neuroscientist Offers Tips on How to Avoid the Winter BluesThe annual pattern of winter depression and melancholy–better known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD–suggests a strong link between your mood and the amount of light you get during the day.
To put it simply: The less light exposure one has, the more one's mood may decline.
Wintertime blues are common, but about 10 million Americans are affected every year by a longer-lasting depression called seasonal affective disorder. Along with low mood, symptoms include anxious feelings, low self-esteem, longer sleep duration, constant craving for carbohydrates, and low physical activity levels.
I am a nutritional neuroscientist, and my research focuses on the effects of diet and lifestyle factors on mood and brain functions such as mental distress, resilience, and motivation....
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