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How Nutrition Affects Your Child's Mood and Behavior? Helene Goldnadel Explains

Childhood is happy and carefree in some cases it is not as expected by us. Some children are bored, angry or irritable for most of the time during their childhood. The numbers of depressed children are particularly in children of preschool with depress signs are increasing almost every day. To get the solution to above problem, people take help of medication.

If your child shows sign of bored, irritable, hostile and sad they need to overcome all the psychological assistance better than some biochemical assistance. The later path is considered to be as a best thing for the welfare of your child. The children with nourished food will not only improve their mood, but also will have the energy to take care of high and low behavior in the life.

Helene Goldnadel is of the view that nutrition is easily controllable by parents and it is their concern. The eating habit of my son suffering from his mood changes when he eats something else, which is quite different then earlier. It is observed that the balancing is achieved by providing breakfast of unprocessed or unrefined foods, which establish the fact that child is not without food any time of the day. Sugary cereals are considered as unhealthy breakfast. It will not be considers sensitivities and food allergies that is subjected to the discussion. It's their rights to think about it. If your child suffers from intolerance of food system you should take advice of your doctor for the betterment and beneficial of your child's health and the child should be tested for the same.

B12, B3, folic acid, B6, magnesium and zinc are the most effective on the mood and the mood changes very fast. Omega 3 & fatty acids are important factors. It changes the influence and involved in biochemical process such as ethylene. It helps very much the neurotransmitters to keep the child motivated and happy, which is established along with above vitamins to affect.

The serotonin keeps child as a constituent of neurotransmitter. The adrenalin and noradrenalin adds motivation to the child moods and that is why balancing of these items in food is essential requirement of food. Imbalance also effects due to insufficient sunlight and lack of nutrition values of the food along with lack of exercise. The stress level enormously reduces serotonin level and increasing adrenalin level also boost mood at higher level which reduces to lover level and induction of depletion of serotonin & adrenalin, but even after getting sufficient exercise in some children because of the indoor games. These children are involved in indoor games due to which they receive insufficient sunlight for the production of serotonin. It is strictly adhere. If you add poor diet to the list even when steps are taken to improve the children due to low level of mood and low level of their behavior.

Protein is responsible for the production of Serotonin, since it is an element of the protein, Amino acid of tryptophan is also found in sufficient quantity in turkey, fish, chicken, cheese, beans, eggs, tofu, oats. Philip Cowen a research scientist showed that tryptophan in adult mostly shows sign of depression of short time.

Amino acids known as phenylalanine and tyrosine are responsible for Adrenalin and noradrenalin derived from food reach in amino acid and that is a part of protein food. To improve the mood sufficient quantity of protein is consumed by the child.