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Nephthys
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posted December 29, 2006 11:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Nephthys     Edit/Delete Message
Did you know that your brain is 66% fat? This is why you need to feed your brain essential, healthy fatty acids. Your memory and intelligence improves when you feed your brain. Depression is lessened. 70% of the calories used by the placenta is devoted to brain growth. Well, how can you feed your brain?

Avocados
Nuts & Nut Butters
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Flax Seeds
Green Leafy Vegetables
Fish

Fresh Air. Getting outdoor excercise is really important. A lot of people only go to an indoor gym, but just going on walks outside, or working outside in your yard, sends fresh, healthy air to circulate in your brain and body.


So feed your brain!

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Nephthys
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posted January 03, 2007 01:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Nephthys     Edit/Delete Message
*sigh* No one is interested in talking about the brain.

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jani_jean
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posted January 03, 2007 09:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jani_jean     Edit/Delete Message
Wonderful news Nepthys! i never knew this..offlate i take spl interest in knwoing and also precahing (my colleagues veiw it as fun and tease me -tahs a different matter) these type of things
for eg i knew yoghurt was good for body and though i bet why it is good was written on the container from ages it caught my eye that acidophillus bacteria aids digestion , engymes etc etc..
so now with ur new breif peice of info i will start preaching this
no wonder we feel fresh after a walk in teh park on a stressful day


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Gemini Nymph
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posted January 08, 2007 11:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Gemini Nymph     Edit/Delete Message
I love my brain.

I have to follow a pretty strict diet to keep my depression at bay. I have to follow a high protein-mod fat-low carb diet. Fat is very important to brain health but it needs to be the right amounts of the right kinds of fats.

Omega 3 fatty acids are the most important - this isn't just brain food, but it's an antioxidant - it helps prevent oxidation of metabolism byproducts that cause cell damage.

While it's wildly debated, I find that I do find I need a bit of the "bad" saturated fats. I usually get these from meats, cheese and butter. I just have to watch it so I don't end eating too much of these fats during the week. I do avoid trans fats like the plague, unless they are naturally occuring, in which case they're in such small amounts they can't do much harm.

Exercise is also important - it helps regulate serotonin, melatonin and other "happy" chemicals in our brain. It helps our body detoxify itself of wastes that could effects our brain function. It also improves you brain-body connection, which in trtuns improves overall brain function.

Also since exercise regulates those "happy" chemicals," it helps you SLEEP better. And your brain NEEDS sleep as much as anything. In fact, most recent research suggests that the *predominant* reason we sleep is for our brains to recup, recharge, relevel and get ready for another day. Without it, our brain tend to get strung out and spread thin on too little resource. Our seratonin gets depleted so we feel fatigued and depressed. Our melatonin levels go whacky, making us sleepy during the day and restless at night, throwing off our sleep cycle. Other chemicals that rely on teh right levels of these two main checials suffer as result. Basically, to not sleep is to hurt our brains, and everything else suffers. GET SLEEP!!!

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Nephthys
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posted January 08, 2007 11:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Nephthys     Edit/Delete Message
Thanks for your responses, guys!

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Randall
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posted January 09, 2007 01:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message
So, when my friends call me "Fathead," they are right! But seriously, that's really great information. Thanks for sharing.

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D for Defiant
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posted January 19, 2007 07:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for D for Defiant     Edit/Delete Message
Wonderful food for thought

Yes- sleep is essential.

I love those dietary sources of good fats. I'm in my first year of my Phase One (the first 5 years) of my attempt to gradually become a vegetarian- or at least eating as little of animal foods as possible. So I still eat poultry and fish at the moment. I would agree that certain deep-sea fish contain the animal forms of omega-3- EPA and DHA, which enhance our brains. But it's quite expensive to buy salmon here in Taipei, and it requires extra caution to select less polluted fish, because the majority of seafood available is more or less contaminated...a while ago I read in the newspaper that tuna fishing had been banned in Japan, I think? Because the oceans were running out of tuna.

Doesn't mean that we should stop eating fish altogether just because of this, though. That would be too rigid a way to deal with it. We need more balanced and more flexible human solutions.

But nonetheless, it ain't easy to obtain fresh and unpolluted fish nowadays...should people be cautioned when they've been encouraged to eat more fish?

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eatbooks
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posted January 22, 2007 02:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for eatbooks     Edit/Delete Message
interesting....

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