Pickles and yoghurt help youngsters to tackle social anxiety

A study conducted by the University of Maryland and the William and Mary College in Virginia has concluded that eating sauerkraut, pickles and yoghurt may help young adults who suffer from social anxiety. The study has found that students who ate more of such fermented food had fewer social anxiety symptoms.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 12 June 2015.

The study was conducted on about 700 students and they were asked about fermented foods that they had consumed over the previous 30 days, their exercise and consumption of fruit and vegetables.
The study revealed that young adults, prone towards anxiety, reported less social anxiety if they frequently consumed fermented foods with probiotics. It is possible that the probiotics in the fermented foods help to alter the environment in the gut, which, in turn, influences social anxiety.
Some of the foods that the students were asked about were yoghurt, kefir, fermented soy milk, miso soup, sauerkraut, some dark chocolates, microalgae juices, pickles, tempeh and kimchi.
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