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| How does your diet affect your mental health? Do things like caffeine, fried foods, or high sugar snacks impact your mental health at all? What do you think the connection is between physical and mental health? I believe the obvious answer here would be, "you are what you eat". Even Taiwanese has a phrase that roughly translates to, "garbage in, garbage out".  So going off that, the connection between physical and mental health (theoretically speaking) would be the better you eat, the better you (should) feel. For me, food in general is a pretty large part of my life- when I live alone, I typically eat in between regular mealtimes in order to decrease the number of meals, and potentially calories, I intake. In terms of what I eat, though, I think I'm generally a healthy-ish eater? I stay away from fried foods for the most part- at the most, maybe I'll have a fried egg/sunny-side-up every now and then but I'm actually not big on fries, or fried, oily food in general. The longer you stay away from those foods, I've realized over time, the easier it is to keep staying away. Typically I just eat chips. Yes, those are typically fried, but it's definitely a snack I always have around me but never eat.  I'm definitely one of those people who buy unhealthy food on a whim, then leave it to go stale for months before finally deciding to have a nibble.  Might as well just not buy it, I know, but *shrug* it happens.Caffeine, though, is actually good for me. I don't say this sarcastically, either. I bought a trial pack of Zest Tea, which is a high-caffeine content tea, and it was REALLY GOOD. I decided to give it a test run during the final week of instruction at school, and on the first day, I got some cool ideas for Chinese School instruction after drinking it. I'm telling myself it was the sudden jolt of caffeine in my body that sent everything, including my brain and imagination, into overdrive, and instead of getting jittery and going through a crash-and-burn, it was more like a  moment/feeling throughout the day. I even lasted through the final night class of the quarter without feeling extra drained.  Needless to say, I drank more throughout the week, and especially on Thursday, when I had silks, Jazz, and Ballet packed into my schedule! High-sugar stuff is, admittedly, probably my biggest problem, because I drink alot of syrup/powder-based drinks. Not necessarily Starbucks, but we have a place by campus called Sharetea and it's a boba/milk tea type of shop, so I started going there once a week to buy myself a milk tea of sorts to use for making microwave oatmeal in the mornings. I definitely think doing silks has improved my mental health- jazz and ballet as well, but also in that order of helpfulness level. I feel challenged in silks, enough to where I want to conquer the skills I struggle with, but not to where I want to give up- it might be a matter of class-size as well, and the fact that it's hard to not smile when you're 8-10 feet in the air and impressing people. Jazz was just fun, in the sense that the instructor's energy was absolutely contagious.  He made it to where it's pretty much impossible to not be smiling at the end of class, even if you're sweating, sore, and just burned 400-500 calories (no lie, that's how much I burned during our final  ). It's also so fast-paced that you can't be thinking of anything else outside the studio because then you'll miss the choreography and be behind. Ballet helped, more with posture than anything, and the instructor was super knowledgeable about injuries, alignments, and all that physiology/anatomy stuff I never studied but probably should've.  I learned the most in that class, I'd say, because I used to copy what I saw from Angelina Ballerina when I was younger, which got me into trouble not only indirectly with Grandfather, but with my own body, because I wasn't doing it right. Go figure. Sooo yeah. For me, the connection between physical and mental health would be: good physical health (fitness-wise) leads to good mental health. As much as I gripe about food and such sometimes, what I eat isn't as big of a worry for me, as much as what I do with the energy gained after eating. |
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