Feeling a little down? Eat your fish.
For years, we’ve heard you are what you eat. It turns out now you feel what you eat. Joy Bauer, a nutritionist and author of “Cooking With Joy,” advocates a diet heavy with omega-3 fatty acids to boost your mood and to battle depression, according to Vogue magazine. That’s the heart-healthy fat found in foods such as tuna, salmon and flaxseed.
She is not alone. The idea has been on the radar since the mid-1980s, when a University of Illinois medical student concluded the brain is lacking in natural omega-3s and diet is the only source.
No studies are conclusive yet. After three months of fish, fortified eggs, olives and flaxseed, reporter Sarah Haight thought her mood was shifting for the better. But then it could have been her new Afro-Brazilian dance class.
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Edited by Cara DiPasquale (cdipasquale@tribune.com) and Kris Karnopp (kkarnopp@tribune.com)
