{"id":35957,"date":"2018-10-23T21:37:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T21:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35957"},"modified":"2018-10-23T21:37:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T21:37:43","slug":"serotonin-why-someone-might-crave-carbohydrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/serotonin-why-someone-might-crave-carbohydrates\/","title":{"rendered":"Serotonin: why someone might crave carbohydrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Self-tutoring about health, diet and mood: the tutor finds a connection between eating carbohydrates and mood.<\/h2>\n<p>Of course, some people eat because it makes them feel happy rather than because they are hungry. (I am one such person;) Is there an easy connection between eating and mood elevation?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps yes: serotonin. Serotonin is believed to reduce depression and perhaps promote contentment. Its release is augmented by eating carbohydrates but not by eating protein.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/8697046\">nih.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/mental-health\/serotonin\">healthline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11888576\">nih.gov<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about health, diet and mood: the tutor finds a connection between eating carbohydrates and mood. Of course, some people eat because it makes them feel happy rather than because they are hungry. (I am one such person;) Is there &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/serotonin-why-someone-might-crave-carbohydrates\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Serotonin: why someone might crave carbohydrates<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35961,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957\/revisions\/35961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}