STUDY: DIETING CAN AFFECT MOODS AND HAPPINESS

THE TYPE OF DIET A PERSON IS ON CAN DETERMINE THEIR
MOOD AND JOYFULNESS ACCORDING TO AUSTRALIAN STUDY

SIDNEY (Reuters) - The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Association in Adelaide, Australia conducted a study on low fat versus low carb diets and found that both diets work equally well in helping the participant lose weight. However, those on the low carb diet suffered negative mood swings, according to CNN Health. The study involved 106 overweight participants who were looking to lose weight. They were randomly assigned either a low far or a low carb diet plan to follow. Initially, the results seemed similar; eight weeks into the experiment, all dieters reported significant increases in their feelings of happiness. The results of this study are very interesting as many people don’t consider emotional side effects of diets when taking them on. The real difference came one year later when the researchers followed up with those in the study.

Only those who were on the low fat plan retained were still seeing an improvement in their moods while those on the low carb plan had the opposite happen and their moods deteriorated as time went on. Everyone’s biological make up is different and people should use the diet or health plan that works best for them and their specific needs. Virtually cutting out whole groups of food like carbohydrates or fat may be good for a quick fix to drop a few pounds but it’s not possible for most people to keep that up long term. Weight loss should be looked at as a lifestyle change; people should focus on just trying to eat healthy and exercise, that will produce the best long term results.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

Whatever you do, whether in dress or in food, you are to act according to what is sanctioned by Him – following in His footsteps. We shall always perform everything in that consciousness – in God consciousness or Krsna consciousness. God is Beauty and He is the Autocrat. Whatever our engagement, we shall perform with the help of Krsna consciousness in our heart and divine help will come to us beyond our wildest expectations. … We shall do according to His will, the will of the autocrat, Sri Krsna. This is the sum and substance. We are to go on with Krsna Consciousness following at every step in this way. We are to go on eating, sleeping and doing all our duties, but always in the association of Krsna. Whatever we do must be done in Krsna consciousness, otherwise all activities are futile.

Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Maharaja:
“Beauty is the Autocrat, Sweetness is the Autocrat, Love is the Autocrat".
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