Anti Anxiety Meal Plan

Does the deadline seem more manageable when you're armed with a bag of cookies? It's true that food soothes. But when life's stresses add up to an anxiety attack, you don't need the food that you eat to make you more anxious. Here's how the Anti-Anxiety Diet can help you choose the right foods to stay calm -- even when you're faced with stressful situations:
• Complex carbs act as tranquilizers by increasing your amount of serotonin, the neurotransmitter that calms, in your brain. This meal plan contains lots of fruits and whole-wheat foods to increase your complex carb intake.
• Tryptophan -- a precursor to seratonin -- has a calming effect on the body. This meal plan includes turkey and milk choices, both of which contain tryptophan.
• Caffeine