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Dec 2019
43m 38s

Fighting Holiday Depression with Food

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.
About this episode

In today’s show, we want to help you understand how you can use food and nutrition to beat your holiday depression and winter blues. We will share how your food choices affect how well you handle the extra stress the holiday season brings, along with why your brain needs adequate levels of vitamin D to avoid the winter blues.

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