How Eating Carbs Can Help Increase Serotonin

"When serotonin is made and becomes active in your brain, its effect on your appetite is to make you feel full before your stomach is stuffed and stretched. Serotonin is crucial not only to control your appetite and stop you from overeating; it's essential to keep your moods regulated." -Dr. Judith Wurtman, director of the Program in Women's Health at the MIT Clinical Research Center, http://news.mit.edu/2004/carbs