The Yoga Diet:
5 Foods to Improve Your Mood

Crashing from coffee? Try our green tea slushie.
Plus 4 inventive ways to use food as fuel.

Recipes by Jennifer Iserloh
Reporting by Molly Sullivan Raisch

Mid-afternoon meltdowns will send you soldier-like to the nearest coffee spout pining for a sugary, caffeinated fix. If this is a desperate habit you are hard pressed to break we can help. The Skinny Chef, Jennifer Iserloh, has Ayurvedic answers for you. Ayurveda, meaning the science of life, is an ancient way of eating, to help keep you wholesome or in modern terms: skinny and sane. From acne to anxiety, yoga’s brainy sister science, Ayurveda, doles out individualized food prescriptions that rebalance your internal ecosystem leaving you markedly happier, healthier and might we say perkier. The meals are full of superfoods: quality carbs like brown rice keep your blood sugar and spirits up while juicy fruits like cucumber can keep your nasty alter-ego at bay.

Eat right for you: 
The five recipes with simple healthful ingredients you already have describe the secret ingredients needed for each type to feel good. Don’t know your dosha yet?  Find out by taking our dosha quiz. Eat and be well.

More Food for your Mood
Chipotle Chicken Burrito
Cucumber and Watermelon Salad
Green Tea Raspberry Slushie
Honey Glazed Chicken with Cashews
Shrimp Pad Thai

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