WHAT'S REALLY MAKING YOU MOODY?
By Beth Gibbon 11/12/2006 Low blood sugar THIS can be caused by going too long between eating, following a strict diet or skipping meals. "When your blood sugar is low, your resistance to irritation is low, so you're more likely to fly off the handle," says Ursula Arens, of the British Dietetic Association. Other side-effects include feeling tired, lethargic, cold, shivery and weak. "Even if you're trying to lose weight, you need to eat three good meals a day in order to maintain blood sugar," she says. "Include a starchy carbohydrate, such as pulses, vegetables, rice or pasta, with each meal." Stress A MAJOR influence on mood, this often creeps up without us noticing. Sarah Jarvis of the Royal College of GPs recommends trying to identify the root causes of your stress if you suddenly find yourself biting people's heads off in a way you wouldn't before. "Often it will be lots of little things that build up until you suddenly explode...