Lacking B Vitamins Can effect Your Moods by Judi Singleton

We all know some foods are stimulants and some slow you down.

But have you tried using these foods to effect your moods?

Getting the Vitamins And Minerals one needs is of the first concern

Most people can get all the vitamins and minerals they need by eating

properly. The B complex is an extremely important group of nutrients

that the body must acquire through the diet or produce via the

intestinal flora to enable it to transform food into energy, maintain a

strong immune system, balance many of the body's hormones, and perform

a wide variety of other tasks.

Many things can contribute to vitamin B deficiencies. Eating Junk

foods and bread products high in sugar and white refined flour

processed foods (lack nutrients and may contain many additives also

fills one up and leaves no room for healthy foods. ), conventionally

grown produce (are sprayed with pesticides and stored for such long

lengths of time they lack nutrients by the time we buy them.), Using

alcohol (more than two drinks a day can deplete B vitamins.),living a

high stress lifestyle, environmental pollution, inadequate digestion,

malnutrition, illness, and a vegetarian or vegan diet can all

contribute.

Due to the fact that a good percentage of the U.S. population consumes

vitamin-deficient foods raised in vitamin deficient soils along with a

combination of one or more of the aforementioned problems, vitamin B

deficiencies have become commonplace.

Some of the problems one experiences with deficiencies are:mild to

severe depression,forgetfulness, vague fear, uneasiness to panic ,mood

swings,loss of ability to concentrate, fatigue, insomnia or sleep

disturbances.

The richest food sources of B-1 are brewer’s or nutritional yeast,

brown rice, egg yolks, fish, legumes, liver, nuts, peas, poultry, rice

bran, dulse, kelp, spirulina, wheat germ and whole grains. A high

carbohydrate diet will increase the need for thiamin and the use of

antibiotics, sulfa drugs, and oral contraceptives may decrease the

body's thiamin level.

The foods providing the highest levels of B-2 are brewer's or

nutritional yeast, almonds, wheat germ, wild rice, egg yolks, legumes,

liver, fish, and poultry.

Niacin is found in brewer’s or nutritional yeast, liver, broccoli,

carrots, cheese, eggs, fish, raw milk, peanuts, potatoes, tomatoes,

dandelion greens, and wheat germ.

Most fresh vegetables are good sources for B-5. Brewer's and

nutritional yeast, liver, eggs, mushrooms, avocados, broccoli, whole

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