Beat Depression  - White Powder Depression Cure?

Many kinds of depression are described as "biochemical." What this means is that your biochemistry is "out of whack."  How your brain and synapses are firing is off kilter.  Because it is off kilter, you feel depressed.  Doctors then prescribe anti depressant drugs to help correct the imbalance, and people start to feel better after a while.

Since biochemical imbalances are at the root of many types of depression, it is easy to understand that what you eat can play a major role in feelings of depression. What you eat obviously affects your biochemistry. For example, if you consume lots of junk food you start to feel kinda bad. Your biochemistry is suffering!  This is not groundbreaking news.  We all know from overeating candy on Easter as kids that junk food can make us feel bad.

However, what most people don't know is that one particular kind of junk food can actually cause bad mood swings and depression.  Most people looking for depression help can find it by changing one thing. Refined white sugar can often be a big cause of depression.

Sugar affects your energy level, your mood and your "tude." Sugar can cause mood swings and occasional black, dark feelings. So if you are having feelings of depression, sugar could very well be the cause and the culprit.

Just remove sugar from your diet for a week and see if you feel any different. See if it provided you with any depression help. I did, and the change was remarkable. I felt more energy and more positive. And after just two days I had no more black, dark mood swings. I discovered for myself that blood sugar levels affect mood. There is a book available at amazon.com called Sugar Blues that talks about this extensively.

Now, don't go thinking you have to give up sweets. I'd get depressed just thinking about no sweets!

Just give up the refined white sugar. The health food store near you has many different natural alternative sweeteners that won't give you the sugar blues. Things like agave nectar and stevia and processed by the body differently and won't affect your moods in the same way.

So even if you don't have dark mood swings or feel other depression symptoms, you can give up refined sugar for a week and test this out for yourself. If you absolutely can't envision giving up the white stuff for a week, then you can try a different form of this test that takes only half a day.

For breakfast or a midmorning snack, eat a couple doughnuts and nothing else. Don't eat any protein with them, don't have coffee or soda or any form of caffeine with them. Notice how your body feels in about half an hour to an hour. If you don't pump yourself up with caffeine, you should notice you feel good and happy and energized for about half an hour to 45 minutes, then you should start to feel tired and irritable and groggy for the next two hours after that as your blood sugar swings up then down.

That sugar causes blood sugar spikes is well documented medically. And, we each handle sugar differently and respond to it with greater or lesser sensitivity. But if you want depression help, giving up white sugar for a week is a great place to start. Your nearest Krispy Creme can provide all the proof you need! Sugar doesn't cause all forms of depression, but it is a primary cause for many people.

You don't have to take my word for it.  This really is something you can try for yourself.  Often within two or three days you will start feeling like a new person.