🔼: [[Practices 🕯️]]
##### ⭐️ Nutrition
A term referring to the [[Practices 🕯️|Practice 🕯️]] of feeding yourself with care. Maintaining healthy day-to-day nutrition is a component of [[⭐️ Self-Maintenance]], which makes [[⭐️ Cooking]] an essential life skill. Nutrition plays a significant role in our well-being not only because our body builds itself out of the foods we eat, but because [[🔑 Not all symptoms, conditions, and diagnoses are related to parts]] — many people become food-sensitive in correlation with their [[💡 Stress|stress]] level and [[💡 Emotional Dysregulation|emotional dysregulation]]. The food we eat can have a substantial impact on our mental health, [[⭐️ Sleep]], and symptoms — for better or worse.
> [!TIP] It's a good idea to talk to your doctor before changing your diet
Eating well has massive benefits:
lower risk of obesity, diabetes, various cancers, heart disease and other bad things that kill you,[13](https://markmanson.net/goals#footnote-13)
more energy, more focus, better moods, better sleep and sex life.[14](https://markmanson.net/goals#footnote-14)
The benefits are even more pronounced in kids.[15](https://markmanson.net/goals#footnote-15)
Learning to cook opens up social opportunities and a greater sense of connection with our food.
Gold standard: Recipes we enjoy eating *and* making.
###### Diets
[[🛠 Anti-Inflammatory Diet]]
[[💡 The Western Diet]]
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[[Nutrition for Anxiety]]
[[Nutrition for ADHD]]
[[Nutrition for Complex PTSD]]
[[Nutrition for Depression]]
[[Nutrition for OCD]]
###### Related
- [[Cookbook]]
- https://www.nsf.org
- https://labdoor.com
- https://examine.com
- [[🛡️ Comfort Eating]]
- [[🛡️ Over-eating]]
- [[🛡️ Emotional Eating]]
- [[🛡️ Under Eating]]
- [[🛡️ Eating Disorders]]
- [[🛡️ Restricted Eating]]