Cooking At Home, It Turns Out To Be Beneficial For Mental Health

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JAKARTA - Cooking at home, besides being economical, also ensures that you use the best ingredients, proper processing methods, and are nutritious. Although many people choose not to cook because of their busy life, there are many reasons to choose to cook at home.

A mental health clinic in America uses cooking as mental therapy. This could be on the list of additional reasons that home cooking is beneficial.

Therapy with cooking is called therapeutic cooking, which includes baking and cooking activities. The results of this therapy prove that cooking can help treat schizophrenia, depression, mood disorders, and other mental health problems.

The following is a description of the benefits of cooking at home for mental health.

Increase self-confidence

For someone who does not have enough self-confidence in a social environment, cooking can be a therapy. Based on research, cooking therapy improves quality of life. By cooking then serving it to others and enjoying it together can have a positive effect.

Calm down

Negative thoughts make a person anxious and worried. Cooking is a meditative and calming activity. When preparing ingredients, chopping, boiling or stirring, the focus will be on the cooking activity. Negative thoughts will be momentarily forgotten.

If you are reluctant to pursue cooking activities at home, then give it a try. Take two hours to process the stock of food ingredients into delicious dishes.

Great fun

Cooking will be fun when a lot of creative ideas in cooking dishes are realized. The positive benefits of cooking were found in a study conducted in 2016. The study revealed that cooking can be a medium to express feelings.

Illustration of cooking with a partner (Unsplash / Jason Briscoe)

Like getting a gift

Even though cooking requires precise calculations, try not to miss your concentration and timing. Now, after being busy preparing dishes and the food is ready, it's like getting a gift.

Raising awareness

To be healthy, the body needs enough nutrients. By cooking at home, a person cares about what he eats and what enters his body. Plus considering the quality and quantity of ingredients can maintain brain balance.

After knowing the mental benefits of cooking, are you still reluctant to cook at home? This activity can be done flexibly. If cooking every day is a hassle then make a schedule for cooking at home on the weekends.