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Fruits & Veggies for Mental Health

Photo Courtesy: Ja Ma

The role of having a balanced diet is much more than what you think and natural supplements like vegetables and fruits are packed with nutrients that helps in making you mentally healthy.

Here are 3 scientifically proven fruits and veggies facts:

1. Consuming berries might be associated with high level of optimism.

2. Citrus and green leafy vegetables reduces psychological distress, ambiguity and cancer.

3. Carrots, bananas, apples, spinach, grapefruit, lettuce, cucumber, and kiwifruit reduces depressive symptoms and promotes positive mood.

Vegetables and fruits contains important nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, flavonoids and carotenoids that can reduce inflammation and oxidative stress.

Eat healthy! Stay healthy!

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Why Are Flowers Important?

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All flowers are unique in their type, color, shape and fragrance. They make us feel good and make any corner they are placed in beautiful.

Here are 5 reasons why flowers have color and why are they important:

1. Like us, flowers have genes and pigments which are transferred generationally. The presence of chemicals like – carotenoids, anthocyanin.

2. Colors serve as survival.

3. Colors of flowers attracts birds and bees. These and other pollinators have a great function to aid evolving of flowers. As well as provide food.

4. If flowers have no color it’ll all look too dull. They make the nature look like a piece of art.

5. Some flowers have medicinal properties, which is why they are important.

Check here to know more about colors.

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Easy Ways to Organize

Let’s utilize the weekend organizing your surroundings. 💖

1. Recycle baskets and make your corners prettier: for storing paper rolls or fruits.

Photos Courtesy: Michelle Garres

2. Wash off all your jars and store almost anything: spices, herbs, face mask, or flower pots.

Photo Courtesy: Annie Spratt

3. Take out blank sheets from old journals and bind them to declutter and make a new one for yourself.

Photo Courtesy: Priscilla Du Preez

I believe in taking little steps because it brings out more creative ideas. To read more on becoming organized read here.

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Talk Personal

Photo Courtesy: Priscilla Du Preez

Why now? Why now?

Do I really have to do this?

Is that what I need?

Can I choose not to?

Will it be safe?

These are some of the questions that may pop for some of you while talking to someone. Opening yourself all out there not only makes you feel vulnerable but scared about safety at times.

The details may contain feelings of hurt and sometimes remind you of memories of the past. However, sometimes it’s a good idea to let it out and empty your bucket. It could be to anyone – your friend, therapist, partner, or family. It’s not necessary to share everything but somethings.

World is a lonely place when there is no one to share your hearts out. Communication is very important and integral to all communities. It is not limited humans but for everyone that exists in nature.

Happy weekend!

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Remembering Vincent van Gogh

Photo Courtesy: Van Gogh Museum

Vincent van Gogh was Dutch born on March 30, 1853 in the Brabant village of Zundert. At the age of 27 he became a painter and rest is history.

His work has greatly influenced the current Expressionism in modern art. Van Gogh became famous post death after his work was auctioned for high sums. He suffered from hallucinations and nightmares at times. He often reported that he was suffering from fever. At various times he reported bouts of insomnia. He was unable to sleep for three weeks prior to his diagnosis of gonorrhea in The Hague. He died at the age of 37.

Here are two of his quotes and my favorite painting by him-

• Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night , 1889

Here is a song which you can enjoy covering his paintings and a museum dedicated to Vincent van Gogh.

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