One's physical health and eating habit can affect his emotions, and one's emotions play a role in his physical health.
Explanation:
Nutritional psychiatry explains that serotonin plays a role with emotion.
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that helps regulate sleep and appetite, mediate moods, and inhibit pain. Since about 95% of ones serotonin is produced in his gastrointestinal tract, and ones gastrointestinal tract is lined with a hundred million nerve cells, or neurons, it makes sense that the inner workings of your digestive system don’t just help you digest food, but also guide your emotions.
Studies have also shown that when people take probiotics (supplements containing the good bacteria), their anxiety levels, perception of stress, and mental outlook improve, compared with people who did not take probiotics. Other studies that compared “traditional” diets, like the Mediterranean diet and the traditional Japanese diet, to a typical “Western” diet have shown that the risk of depression is 25% to 35% lower in those who eat a traditional diet.
There are also now two interventions suggesting that dietary improvement can prevent depression.
Personal fitness and sport affecting the emotion.
• Sports improve your mood - Team sports in particular provide a chance to unwind and engage in a satisfying challenge that improves your fitness.
• Sports improve your concentration.
• Sports reduce stress and depression- Exercise reduces the levels of stress hormones in your body. At the same time, it stimulates production of endorphins. These are natural mood lifters that can keep stress and depression at bay. Endorphins may even leave you feeling more relaxed and optimistic after a hard workout.
• Sports and other forms of physical activity improve the quality of sleep
• Sports help you maintain a healthy weight
• The regular exercise that comes with playing sports can boost your confidence and improve your self-esteem.
• Because of the opportunity to train, try, win, or lose together, people involved in sports are naturally more inclined to adopt a “team mindset” in the workplace and in social situations. The team mindset leads to strong leadership qualities over time.
