This thread is dedicated to foods (that are healthy) that are great for the brain.
I will post here regarding my interests and those others express
- ** How you eat can affect your mind at a fundamental levels. Don’t overdose on sugar Your brain, which accounts for 2 percent of your body weight, sucks down roughly 20 percent of your daily calories. It demands a constant supply of glucose. But this doesn’t mean that you should slurp soda to keep your brain functioning optimally. In fact, high glucose levels slowly but surely damage cells everywhere in your body, including those in your brain. from Mercola site
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The key operating principles in the physical area, from which others are derived are:
1. Develop no tolerance for less than being healthy, high energy
2. The body seeks balance, so stop the barriers Relax, rest Breathing No sugar ups and downs!!!!!!!
3. Flow – Move it or accumulate it! (Exercise to move lymph, heat, water)
4. Feed it the right stuff – But easily, feeling full and satisfied
5. No crap in – Food, air, water of quality
6. Simplicity and convenience maximized, so we’ll do it!
7. Measure it and review it on a systematic scheduled basis.
We just figure out ways to implement these easily so you are not tempted to do otherwise or languishing like the gradually boiling frog.
IT’S A NO BRAINER
It’s no contest in looking at the low benefits compared to the costs, what is called a “no brainer” as it is so obvious. If one makes a decision other than to not give in to the short term impulse, then one is operating without using one’s higher brain – a real pity, as it has a lot of benefits.
Plus your brain does not operate well when your body is out of whack, so there is a “no brainer” in another sense – you have no operating higher brain when you’re “off”. The loss of brain function is not a good idea. (:
Stability is the only choice. from Keith Garrett’s site of life management alliance and a bmindful friend
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sugar thread
Brain function and blood sugar
The cognitive ability of the brain is related to the blood glucose concentration. In other words, the brain thinks real well when it has food. Since the glucose is its food, it is good to have the correct blood sugar. Not only is the thought process effected, all areas of the brain need sugar. So if the sugar level is off, our mood will change. Usually people with a low blood sugar will be very irritable. Once they eat and replace their blood sugars, their mood will dramatically improve. This is important because weight loss dieting can often cause fluctuations in blood sugar, which in turn causes more moodiness. So some weight loss dieting can have an association bad moods, or temperament changes.
As our understanding of hormones improves, so should our diet and weight loss dieting. The goal of our lives should be to be happy, and as you can imagine, a brain with the correct fuel level is a happy brain. This ‘good’ blood sugar level allows us a better chance to be happy overall, and to work on the other aspects of our lives that may be bringing us down. If you are having personal ‘troubles’ and you are battling frequent low blood sugars, you are in a difficult position to achieve life changing modifications. The answer becomes learning how and what makes you tick.
from weightawareness.com
BE YOU