Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Brain Power
1. Eat Brain Healthy Food
Certain foods improve your brain's function: foods like leafy green vegetables, fruits and vegetables with antioxidants, soy, and whole wheat provide nutrients that help with brain development and maintenance. Even foods like cacao beans and coffee beans contain vitamins and nutrients that are good for your brain—just skip all the excess sugar.
2. Reduce Your Cholesterol
According to research by Kaiser Permanente, high levels of cholesterol increases a person's risk of developing dementia. Women with a cholesterol value of 240 and over have a 66 percent increased chance of developing Alzheimer's disease, and a 25 percent increased chance when cholesterol levels are between 200 and 239.
3. Use Omega-3 Supplements
Besides omega-3 fatty acids found in food, supplements can also be used.
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My grandfather used to say, "Use it or lose it," referring to keeping your brain active. My favorite fictional character, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, relies upon his "little grey cells" to help solve a mystery, and I have a habit of saying that I'm putting my "little grey cells to work." In our family, we had a longstanding tradition of challenging thought through debate and reporting on current events from daily newspapers or publications like Time Magazine, which I didn't really fully appreciate until I had my own kids.
I admire my 80-year-old mother for her continual thirst for knowledge and am grateful she passed along her enjoyment for crossword puzzles and, more recently, sudoku. She announced to me the other day that she wants to learn French so that she could hold conversations with me - I thought that was hilarious, since I'm so badly out of practice (mine is a multi-lingual family, but I'm the only one who studied the language). At my daughter-in-law's birthday dinner, several of us decided we're going to learn Portuguese, since she speaks it.
Judging by how mentally alert my grandfather was, and my mother still is, keeping the little grey cells challenged is a very good thing.