Avoid these foods to banish a bad mood.
What you eat can have a big impact on your body. In fact, many classic American comfort foods can actually increase the inflammation that leads to chronic disease, Sue Ryskamp, a senior dietitian at Michigan Medicine's Frankel Cardiovascular Center, told Fox News.
And that inflammation can in turn mess with your hormones: Ryskamp notes that Barry Sears' book The Anti-Inflammatory Zone outlines how certain inflammatory foods — usually those high in saturated fat and simple carbohydrates — can cause the overproduction of two key hormones in your body, pro-inflammatory eicosanoids and insulin. High levels of these hormones can then cause the body to produce more cortisol (a stress hormone), Ryskamp said, which leads to further inflammation.
