Depression nutrition advice

Dear friends, it has been a while since I last blogged advice for those suffering from depression, but you and your families are often in my thoughts. Here is some more advice on this topic. Remember, I am not advising any one step as a substitute for your regular regime of treatment, but I would not be surprised if you feel some relief from what I recommend.

This advice is for everyone with depression, but particularly for women. Women who are depressed should not be vegetarians. Vegetarianism, despite its other possible virtues, eliminates nutrition that is beneficial toward the prevent and curing of depression. Here I want to advise one food in particular, which is beef.

Women who are suffering from depression should have beef in the form of a steak or other whole meat cut several times a week. A fast food hamburger is not correct because of the other problems with its preparation (but if that's the only meat that you eat, don't quit). This is, by the way, one reason why burgers remain so satisfying to the public. It is not the calories or the fat, it is the benefit of beef toward mood balance and health that people instinctively feel. But as I said, there are other problems with the preparation, so unless that is your only form of beef intact, I recommend home cooking a steak or other substantial beef cut (such as chuck for stew).

I know that steak and other meat cuts are now priced so high. But if you are struggling with depression, view the money spent as a genuine investment in your body and mind's well being.

Prepare it simply in a way that you like. I fry mine in either butter or olive oil. After browning on all sides I add a sauce to simmer. Tonight I used three soy sauce packets left over from Chinese food! But you can add teriyaki sauce, barbecue, steak sauce (diluted with water) or whatever you like. I've blogged this before but as a reminder, the juice that canned goods contain is great for this purpose. For example, I had canned heart of palm as a side dish while preparing a steak several days ago. Instead of discarding the drained juice from the can, I added the palm flavored water to the frying steak and used that as its sauce. So you get the nutrition that is absorbed by the water or syrup that your canned goods contain.

I think many of you will see a remarkable change in how you feel if you reintroduced several nights a week of a good beef cut to your lunch or dinner (depending when you have your main meal). Dinner is best because evening and night is often a hard time for people with depression. Having a good beef based main dish at dinner is optimal if that is good for your schedule. There is a complexity of biological and nutrition reasons about why beef is so efficacious at the prevention and curing of depression. Just to summarize, beef organizes the body in a unique way in the process of digestion, in addition to the actual providing of beneficial nutrients. In other words, the body tunes itself with each food it digests, and thus for beef, the body tunes itself in a unique way just for digesting beef when you eat it that it does not do for any other food. Each food invokes a subtlety in variation in digestion and absorption of nutrients. So you are gaining benefit from not just the content of the beef but how your body goes about digesting it and breaking it down into useful components.

I really hope this helps! Do try it and you'll see.