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Premenstrual Disorders
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Women who are experiencing premenstrual symptoms often
crave carbohydrates. Eating a piece of bread will often ease their
feelings of depression.
goal, though; instead, eating food in combinations that influence
the body’s chemistry, help balance hormones, and feed the nervous
system is the objective. The best food choices to accomplish this
goal include those that are fresh, unrefined, and unprocessed.
In her book
The Serotonin Solution
, Dr. Judith Wurtman, from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shares information from
more than fifteen years of research on the effects of carbohydrates
on emotions, the appetite, and mood. Much of her work has cen-
tered on weight-loss programs. Through these studies, she found
that the changes in the brain, mainly in the serotonin level, regu-
late mood, appetite, and even the self-control one has over eating