Useful Tips to Boost Your Brain Health and Brain Memory
Healthy eating habits are not just about putting up the menu at your dining table, but it involves how you prepare a healthy meal to boost your energy, enhance memory, and boost mental alertness and active minds thereby helping you to better cope with daily stresses.
Are you mentally, emotionally and physically prepared for the daily challenges and stresses you are confronted with day by day? Healthy eating habits are not just about putting up the menu at your dining table, but it involves how you prepare a healthy meal to boost your energy, enhance memory, boost mental alertness and active minds to help you better cope with daily stressors.
Lack of proper nutrition can undoubtedly lead to poor brain and cell metabolism performance. Serving a wide variety of foods that are palatable and colorful is thus becoming a top priority for your brain to stay active and focus. To have better performance either at school or at work, you will definitely need to ensure you have adequate and appropriate nutritional intake in your everyday’s menu. I also emphasize here the importance of having breakfast every day so do not skip your breakfast. Read more details on my article about colorful foods: five great colors for excellent health
Always Keep Yourself Well-hydrated
Keeping yourself well-hydrated is essential to help bolster concentration, and defray fatigue and weariness. Thus, you should always drink lots of water to keep your body hydrated. Avoid artificially-sweetened or soft drinks as they will quickly drain your energy and lower your attention levels.
Get Adequate Sleep
You should be encouraged adequate sleep during bedtime so that your brain can rest to its fullest. Children up to adolescent age needs at least 9 hours of sleep every night to perform better in their studies, but those aged 50 and above need at least 5-6 hours of sleep every night to help keep alert during the daytime. If you are facing problems sleeping, try changing your sleeping environment. You can help calm yourself 1-2 hours before bedtime by reading a book, taking a warm bath, staying away from any electrical appliance, keeping your room temperature down, and sleeping in a dimly lit room.
Refrain or Limit Sweets
Serving sweets or sweetened foods before the main meal is not recommended by most nutritionists. The main reason to limit sticky foods, sugar-rich foods and drinks intake is to reduce the risk of tooth decay. Further, sweet foods can lead to a temporal surge of activity accompanied by crashing lows.
You should always choose a good quality of natural nutrients that will help boost your brain cells. Whole grains for example, can provide a steady source of energy. Unlike burgers, chips, sausages, nuggets, or pastries which are loaded with very high fat content and should be avoided. So, make sure you make the appropriate food choices or prepare a healthy packed lunch for work or for your children to bring to school. In reality, a healthy meal contributes to the day’s nutritional intake that is most required by your body and brain as well.
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Judy Sheldon | Dec 23, 2010 | Reply
Very worthwhile tips to maintaining brain health!
Suni51 | Dec 23, 2010 | Reply
Really useful tips, thanks.
PR Mace | Dec 23, 2010 | Reply
Excellent advice which I will try to follow.
Yovita Siswati | Dec 23, 2010 | Reply
Great tips as usual. I will try to follow it.
Mr Ghaz | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
yeah..that’s really useful and very informative share. well researched as always. Good one! Thanks Chan
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vijayanths | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
good tips.
Mr Arrogant | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
Wow. Thanks for sharing such awesome tips. Will use the information i got it from you. . .
valli | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
Great tips.
Uma Shankari | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
Your articles are always exhaustive and cover the topic fully. Excellent tips, useful info and helpful advice.
Eunice Tan | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
Again, very comprehensive. I just read about the food that is good for brain and all is in your article.
Geny | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
thanks for sharing
webseowriters | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
Good share
writing4angels | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
Good tips. It surely exercises brain and memory.
BC Doan | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
Fantastic and comprehensive article with useful tips for the brain! It’s so important to keep the brain sharp and healthy.
Happy holidays, Chan!
DrLopez | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
Ahh! This is what I need. Thanks!
Kaye TM | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
happy Christmas! =p
Sarah Rebecca | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
Thanks for sharing!
Anuradha Ramkumar | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
That was an excellent article. As always, very informative and detailed.
PSingh1990 | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
Nice Share.
Goodselfme | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
Well presented with lots of good info. Thank you.
UncleSammy | Dec 25, 2010 | Reply
Interesting thanks for sharing
Phoenix Montoya | Dec 25, 2010 | Reply
I guess eating healthy is really essential but I am so glad you didn’t mentioned chocolates in the sweets
When I was in college I usually eat chocolates for breakfast… No time to eat a proper meal in those days. I eat chocolate coz there is no other choice. But as you say breakfast is important too and I can agree with that 100%. Good job with the links Chan.
UncleSammy | Dec 26, 2010 | Reply
Thanks for sharing
CA Johnson | Dec 26, 2010 | Reply
This is very good. Thank you for letting us know the tips to help your memory. We need to do whatever we can to preserve our memory.
SharifaMcFarlane | Dec 26, 2010 | Reply
I think my main source of iodine is enriched salt.
LoveDoctor | Dec 26, 2010 | Reply
Good one
Joe Dorish | Dec 28, 2010 | Reply
Excellent job Chan! My brain needs a boost often.
LadyElena | Dec 29, 2010 | Reply
Great tips that I need especially after all that Xmas food.
I will find the last one – (limiting sweets) – challenging though.
Christine Ramsay | Dec 30, 2010 | Reply
Some very helpful advice here, Chan. Like lady Elena, I too am finding it difficult to stay away from sweet foods after Christmas.
Christine
Jenny Heart | Dec 30, 2010 | Reply
I must save this one to my favorites. This will be my pep talk every day. Exceptional information!
martinrojas | Jan 3, 2011 | Reply
This is such a great piece of work.
LivingFood | Jan 3, 2011 | Reply
Sweets are the first thing to make my mind go funny….and I agree, milk is bad. I used to drink it all the time with all my meals, and now I can’t drink it at all, or else my hands and feet start hurting to the point where I can’t walk properly or type. Thanks for sharing this great article!
Ruby Hawk | Jan 4, 2011 | Reply
Thanks Chan, You always have good information.
SowmyaT | Jan 5, 2011 | Reply
Thanks for sharing.
J M Lennox | Jan 5, 2011 | Reply
Great advice Chan. A very informative article.
alvinwriter | Jan 14, 2011 | Reply
Nutrition is very important.
papaleng | Jan 15, 2011 | Reply
Excellent post with great advice. sorry, friend for the late comment.
Kate Smedley | Jan 17, 2011 | Reply
Some very interesting facts here which I wasn\\\’t aware of – an excellent article as always, I\\\’ve missed your work.
Brewed Coffee | Jan 22, 2011 | Reply
Comprehensive tips you got here. I will get back to this…I hope my memory isn’t that short to forget this very important article