Good Mood Foods

Good Mood Foods

Mood is considered as an emotional state and may be defined as one’s mental status of thinking and behaviour in a healthy, normal individual. Good mood is usually considered a state without an identified cause; people cannot pinpoint exactly why they are in a good mood. Apart from several extraneous factors, foods that we relish and consume have a great impact on it. It is often said that human...

Regulatory Monitoring of Fortified Foods: Identifying Barriers and Good Practices

While fortification of staple foods and condiments has gained enormous global traction, poor performance persists throughout many aspects of implementation, most notably around the critical element of regulatory monitoring, which is essential for ensuring foods meet national fortification standards. Where coverage of fortified foods is high, limited nutritional impact of fortification programs ...

Functional Foods and Health Claims: How to Make Good Choices

For thousands of years, humans have used food and botanical sources as therapeutic remedies. Today, we know that diet plays a role in about half of the leading causes of death, including heart disease, certain types of cancer, stroke and diabetes, and research suggests that consumption of certain foods is linked to health more generally. As consumers take greater responsibility for their own we...

Feeling good-doing good: a conceptual analysis of the mood at work-organizational spontaneity relationship.

Five forms of organizational spontaneity are described (helping co-workers, protecting the organization, making constructive suggestions, developing oneself, and spreading goodwill). Organizational spontaneity is compared with the seemingly analogous constructs of organizational citizenship behavior and prosocial organizational behavior. Based on a selective review of the literature, a multilev...

Good bacteria for good mood: probiotics and the brain‑gut axis interactions.