Recent research indicates that low-carb diets might help reduce weight but are not so useful to your emotional state.

Judith Wurtman, director of the Women’s Health Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believes that low-carb diets are to blame for negative feelings including sadness and anger. She claims that people on low-carb diets “feel very angry, and their antidepressants don’t work well either”.

The diets blamed for lowering mood are high protein programs that focus on cutting out carbohydrates and eating more meat.

The obvious conclusion reached by many is that if a low carb diet is leading to these unwelcome experiences, putting carbs back in the diet is the solution. But that is only a partial answer.

Sometimes we get caught in an emotional rain storm. It happens. To all of us. Because we’re living in the material fast-paced world and the weather can get rough sometimes.

You may be reading The Secret, you may be someone who tries to keep looking up, but sometimes a negative emotion or three might cloud your sunny horizon. Here’s a few tips on coping with emotional bad weather from Ayurveda India’s ancient, but always relevant, science of self-healing.

Here's an excellent introduction to the highly acclaimed Ayurvedic herb ashwagandha by Dr John Anne over on Ayurvedic Cure - Ananga (Living by Design author)

Ayurveda has a glorious world decorated by herbs and natural remedies. It has a divine origin and was created to treat people with all there despair they were suffering from. Ashwagandha is one of these herbs that is gifted to man by God.

Ashwagandha as the name suggest means smell of a horse (ashwa means horse and gandha means smell). Ashwagandha is an herb that is famous by many names world wide few of them are Indian ginseng, Indian winter cherry and Samm Al Ferakh. Ashwagandha bears a great effect on our body.