You're talking about changing your mood by eating certain foods and it having an immediate reaction... Like a pill. (I've never noticed much with bananas.) There is also the idea that the rest of our less than ideal diet is leaving behind toxins that affect you over time. Cleaning them out is the point of cleanses. Beets are a large part of Ayurvedic type cleanses which are not starvation cleanses. I have found very helpful to the point that it is really noticeable and lasting until I've loaded up on crappy food. While it is better to go through a whole cleanse it is hard. I've only done it once. But I do feel somewhat better and lighter if I include higher than normal beets and apple, for that matter, daily for a while. I'd get totally sick of them if I tried to do that all the time . But bingeing twice a year can't hurt if it is only part of your overall diet. Spring and fall are good times but it would take too long to explain that now.

I have a juicer, btw. I would prefer a vitamix but that is way out of my budget so this is a compromise. If you can't afford a juicer (or don't have the space) you can use a peeler or mince to eat raw beets. Mix them with oranges (zest and or slices) or apples. And I like adding fresh ginger. There is no way I could do that even once a week for a year

SAD is really hard to get away from in this country in particular. Not only is it everywhere but it is cheaper. Getting something into your body is better than nothing, right? So one does the best they can. Fat, btw, alters your mood also. I think it is a mistake to eliminate or reduce it significantly especially if you deal with anxiety. But there is nutritionally dense fat and bad fat. Eating dense fat makes a lot of sense to me. I think SAD gives it a bad rap because so much of it is bad fat and there is too much, of course.

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