Problem: Article: Sometimes it can be difficult to observe how your nutrition affects your mood since food's effect is not immediate. However, it is important to pay attention to what you eat and how it makes you feel to track your depression. Eat foods that relate to fewer symptoms of depression, including fruit, vegetables, and fish. Avoid foods that relate to more symptoms of depression, including processed foods such as processed meats, chocolates, sweet desserts, fried foods, processed cereals and high-fat dairy products. Dehydration can contribute to emotional and physical changes. Your mood can be negatively affected even by mild dehydration. Drink plenty of water throughout the day, not just when you feel thirsty or when you exercise. Men should aim to drink about 13 eight-ounce servings of water per day, and women should drink 9 eight-ounce servings of water per day. People with depression may have low levels of certain brain chemicals, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Fish oil capsules have omega-3 fatty acids and contain EPA and DHA. These can help alleviate some mild symptoms of depression. Take 3 grams or less per day. Higher doses of fish oil can prevent your blood from clotting, which can increase the chance of bleeding. Many people experiencing depression have a deficiency of folate, which is a B vitamin. Increase your folate levels by eating lots of spinach, nuts, beans, asparagus and Brussels sprouts.
Summary: Eat nutrient-rich foods. Drink lots of water. Take fish oil supplements. Increase your intake of folate.

Problem: Article: If your home treatments are not making your toenail any better after 2-3 days, check in with your doctor. If you have diabetes or another condition that causes nerve damage, see your doctor immediately and consider seeing a podiatrist. If you notice red streaks coming from the toe, you need to see a doctor immediately. This is a sign of a major infection. You should also see a doctor if there is pus present near the toenail. Your doctor will ask you when the ingrown toenail started, and when it started to swell or get red or painful. He or she will also likely ask you if you are feeling any other symptoms, such as fever. Be sure to talk about your symptoms fully. Your general practitioner is usually able to treat an ingrown toenail. But for more complicated cases or recurrent conditions, you might choose to see a podiatrist (foot specialist). If your toenail is infected, your doctor may prescribe an oral or topical antibiotic. This will ensure that the infection clears up and new bacteria does not take root under the toenail. Your doctor will likely want to try the least invasive procedure, which is to lift the toenail slightly away from the skin. If they can get the toenail edge away from the skin, they may pack gauze or cotton underneath. Your doctor will give you instructions for replacing the gauze every day. Follow these instructions to make sure your toenail heals. If the ingrown toenail is very infected or has grown significantly into the surrounding skin, your doctor might opt to remove part of the nail. Your doctor will administer a local anesthetic. Then the doctor will cut along the nail edge to remove the part of the nail growing into the skin. Your toenail will regrow in 2-4 months. Some patients worry about the look of the toenail after this procedure. But if your toenail has been growing into your skin, chances are it will look better after this partial removal. Toenail removal may sound drastic, but it actually relieves the pressure, irritation, and pain of an ingrown nail. When you get repeated ingrown toenails, you might want to look into a more permanent solution. In this procedure, the doctor will remove some of your nail, along with the nail bed underneath this section. This will prevent the nail from growing back in this area. This procedure is administered by laser, chemical, electrical current or other surgery.
Summary: Get medical attention after 2-3 days. Talk to your doctor about your symptoms. Get a prescription for antibiotics. Allow your doctor to try lifting the toenail. Ask about partial nail removal. Look into permanent partial nail removal.

Problem: Article: If you're new to following recipes, get out all of the ingredients you'll need and prepare them. If a recipe calls for dicing, mincing, or slicing ingredients, for instance, do all of the prep work first so you can start making the food. If you already feel comfortable doing prep work while you cook food, read through the recipe to see when to do specific prep. For example, if you're caramelizing onions, they'll probably take a long time. Get them cooking and then prep the rest of the ingredients while they're caramelizing. Instead of roasting large chunks of vegetables or boiling entire potatoes, chop them into smaller pieces than you usually do. Vegetables that are 12 to 1 inch (1.3 to 2.5cm) in size will cook much faster than 2 to 3in (51 to 76mm) pieces. If you're really short on time, try dicing or grating the food. For example, instead of cooking chunks of home fries, grate the potatoes to make hashbrowns. You can even cut meat and seafood into smaller pieces. Slice a large roast or fillet into smaller and thinner pieces to cut down on cooking time. A lot of cooking and baking recipes direct you to use softened butter instead of cold butter from the fridge or freezer. Although you could warm the butter in the microwave, you might accidentally melt it. Try grating the butter against the coarse side of a box grater before using it in the recipe. This works best if the butter is very cold or frozen. Try this trick the next time you're baking biscuits or scones. It's much easier than rubbing or cutting chunks of butter into the dry mixture! The time you spend washing, chopping, and preparing ingredients adds up if you're cooking every day. To save on some of this prep time, consider what you'll be cooking for the week and prep the ingredients at the same time. Then, you can just pull what you need out of the refrigerator when you're ready to cook. For example, if you need diced onion for 2 meals, chop the onion and store them in separate containers in the refrigerator. If you're making rice for dinner and you also plan to serve it in a few days, make a double batch and refrigerate half of it. If you're making a few different things to serve, think about which dishes take the longest to cook and which can be prepared right before serving. If it helps you stay organized, write down a timeline of when to prep and cook each dish. Your list might look like this: Marinate chicken for 3 hours Start the grill 30 minutes before dinner time Remove the chicken and thread it onto skewers Put the chicken skewers on the grill Bring a pot of water to boil and cook rice noodles Remove the chicken from the grill Make a tossed salad to serve with the chicken and rice noodles Your food will cook evenly if the oven is already at the recommended temperature when you put the food in. If you put food into a cold oven while it's heating up, it will take longer to cook and the bottom or outside of the food could overcook before the center is done. For example, if you toss a frozen pizza into a cold oven that's heating up, the bottom may burn while the center only becomes warm. If you put it into a hot oven, the whole pizza will cook within the recommended time.
Summary:
Cut or chop your ingredients before you start cooking. Cut food into smaller pieces. Grate your butter so you don't have to wait for it to soften. Prep food for several meals at once. Plan the cooking order for a meal. Preheat your oven while you prep the food.