WebMD. Emotional Eating. You're famished. Nothing has touched your lips since your out-the-door breakfast bar (except maybe gloss), and then there it is, inches from your mouth, happiness in your hand: a classic Chipwich, its two warm chocolate chip cookies meeting the vanilla ice cream middle that's slowly melting down your fingers. This may sound like a Liz Lemon dream sequence, but food legitimately affects your mood—more than you probably realize.
Take the chocolate in your 'wich: It contains happy-making serotonin and anandamide, and once it hits your gut, your body thanks you with a surge of opioids—the cocktail of all three reaches your brain and, voilà, bliss! "Different foods signal pleasure both through the substances they contain and the chemicals they cause the gut to release," says Gianrico Farrugia, director of the Enteric Neuroscience Program at the Mayo Clinic. This prompts the question: Should we be eating to balance our moods, not just our scales? 60 Ways (Simple) No Poo Article.
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