In addition to healthy guidelines such as eating a balanced diet, drinking enough water to stay hydrated, and limiting or avoiding alcohol and caffeine, there are many
other dietary considerations that can help relieve anxiety.
The careful
consideration of
dietary needs, supplementation and
other holistic alternatives such as acupuncture can positively impact health and well being in the patient without the negative side effects often associated with pharmaceutical drugs.
While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of
other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in
dietary practices, including those motivated by
considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327