We have all heard that food is fuel for our body. But do you think changing your food habits reflects on your mood too? Apparently yes...Food definitely feeds our mind along with our body and hence changes our moods. For you, I have these 5 mood-uplifting snacks:

1. Bananas 

Never thought a simple fruit that I love is probably the reason for my always so happy mood. Bananas contain vitamin B6, A and C, fiber, tryptophan, potassium, phosphorous, iron, protein and healthy carbohydrates which contribute to the mood lifting power of banana.

About 40 Million Americans suffer from sleep problems each year. This sleep deprivation makes most of them irritable or depressed, disrupts their concentration, increases their blood pressure, increases the production of stress hormones and causes them to gain weight.

Symptoms of depression

Sleep Apnea is basically abnormal pauses in breathing or instances of abnormally low breathing while sleeping. In simpler terms, sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts while asleep.

Most of us like our sleep. After a long day it feels good to just go home, lay in our bed and fall straight to sleep. When we are sleeping nothing is more annoying than being woken up in the middle of the night. What's really a pain isn't really the whole waking up part, it the whole not being able to fall back asleep that is truly irritating. The average adult needs about 7 hours of sleep, it takes about 90 minutes after you fall asleep to reach the stage of REM sleep, so when you add in the amount of time it takes you to actually fall back asleep (lets say 45 minutes), you will end up losing about 2 hours of a good night sleep. When you're waking up in the morning tired and grumpy, you are going to be wishing you had those 2 hours back.

The most common reason people randomly wake up in the middle of the night is because of middle-of-the-night worrying. The stress and pressure we face during the day often continue to harass us when we're trying to get a good nights rest. So lets say you wake up in the middle of the night because of stress and you can't fall back asleep. What do you do? Before turning on the TV and saying 'well I'm already up' try these four tips to get you to fall back asleep faster and stay asleep.

Today's world is a fast pace world filled with busy schedules, long work hours, and never ending movement. With all this restless energy it is not uncommon to hear many people complaining about how little sleep they are getting and how sleeping disorders such as insomnia, night terrors, and apnea are on the rise. Because of its accessibility, many people have turned to sleeping pills filled with unneeded chemicals and dangerous side effects , but in reality reaching maximum sleeping efficiency is as easy as just altering a few personal habits.

Here are a few tricks that can help you achieve more sleep without the requirements of any medical substances.

• Create and maintain a sleeping schedule by going to bed the same time every night and waking up the same time every morning. Keep to this schedule even on weekend and when life is getting a little bit hectic.

For some people it takes the sound of a chainsaw to wake up in the morning, which has been solved by a new product on the market, but maybe the product harms heavy sleepers more than it helps them.

Everyone knows that when you sleep better, you feel better.  There are many ways to lead to a better nights rest.  While looking around and trying to figure out tricks and tips, I found several helpful hints.

First, you cannot control your sleep.  It is just a fact – we do not have control over sleep.  Once you have realized and accepted this fact, the stress to sleep will slowly dissipate.  

Second, set yourself a bedtime, but remember to not get upset when you are not exactly asleep at this set time.  Be sure to be in bed and relaxing at your set bedtime.  It will help calm your body and create a better sleeping atmosphere.

               For an increasing number of teenagers and young adults, getting to sleep is a problem.

              The inability to sleep has affected thousands between the age 12 and 25 the journal Sleep found in a study on insomnia of adolescents and young adults. The study found that “the presence of insomnia in adolescents increases the risk of developing mental health problems.”

               Usual causes for non medical related insomnia include stress, drug, alcohol, and medication abuse or withdrawal, anxiety, smoking and nicotine intake. In young adults stress and substance abuse are reasons for insomnia. Another reason for insomnia is that young people have the tendency to abuse caffeine, says ED Management.