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Don’t worry – BE HAPPY

1 Eat a square of dark chocolate

It has compounds associated with mood-lifting chemicals in our brain, including the natural antidepressant phenylethylamine and tryptophan, which we need to produce the happiness neurotransmitter serotonin. Just don’t overindulge or it will have the opposite effect and you’ll have a mood-lowering sugar crash. It’s the cocoa that contains the feel-good goodies, so the darker the chocolate, the better – try 70%

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