Before it's all late, Exercise and challenge your brain
Human mental decline typically begins before middle age
* We must take measures to keep our brains in shape, no matter what age
* The brain needs exercise. Practicing skills leads to better performance
* Unused parts of the brain stop working
* Challenging the brain with new activities wakes up new areas
* Try things you don’t already do – an accountant might study a new language
* Challenging creates new pathways that appear to become alternate routes when
neurones die off in middle an old age.
* Research suggests
- Reading to a small child enhances mental development
- Ongoing mental stimulation provides some protection against mental decline
How can you exercise and challenge your brain ?
* Exercising the brain is doing anything that makes you think, such as “what
did I do last weekend ? ”
* Avoid using calculators
* Swap TV for mind games or a book
* Play games that involve memory (bridge) or thinking ahead (chess)
* Take up a new hobby, learn a musical instrument, study a new language
* When you read a paper, consider your own editorial
* Prepare for retirement as a time for “serious leisure”, for a hobby or
activity that involves “the whole being”
Apparently the food is good for the heart, both also for the brain. Gary Small, director of the UCLA Memory Clinic in the United States, provides tips on getting the best nutritional benefits to the two organs are important in our lives.
1. Limiting the number of calories
Excess body fat increases your risk of diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Both the risk of degenerative diseases that cause mild stroke in the brain that can make you lose your memory, dementia and even Alzheimer's suffers.
2. Eat more good fats
Essential fatty acids we find in fish help prevent heart vessel blockage. These fatty acids are also found in nuts, avocados, canola oil, olive oil.
Third. Choose lean meats
Such as chicken without skin and meat tenderloin. Saturated fat-rich meats such as beef burgers are the cause of heart vessel blockage.
4. Concentration of the complex carbohydrate
Such as fruits, vegetables, beans, and wheat. What kind of food is beneficial to good cholesterol guard our heart health. In addition, this type of carbohydrate also maintain appetite and help burn fat. Vegetables and fruits are also brightly colored antioxidants brain health carers.
5. Add the turmeric!
Yellow color in the dish that comes from delicious turmeric besides food, is also beneficial to health because the content of curcumin in it. Curcumin is the active ingredient in turmeric, which is useful as anti bump and antioxidant substances.
6. Green and black tea
Make tea without sugar because both types of tea is free of calories and rich in antioxidants.
7. Drinking wine
Of course as long as you do not have health impediments to drink this style. A glass of wine a day can help protect the brain from degeneration. So according to studies written in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Red wine also contains antioxidants known.
8. Avoid junk food
Especially snacks that contain high sugar and processed foods. Both cause inflammation in the body and increase the amount of glucose in our blood.
