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Are Kid's Growing Bellies Increasing Their Odds Of Alzheimer's?
Belly fat and brain fitness are related. Adult obesity increase odds for late-life dementia and Alzheimer's. Childhood obesity sets kids up for a life-long battle with a weight problem. It's not much of a stretch to say that weight problems in adolescence set kids up for increased odds of Alzheimer's disease down the road.
Climbing The Corporate Ladder Of Brain Fitness
Higher levels of education and more intellectually challenging careers associate with lower rates of Alzheimer's disease. However, this doesn't mean you need a PhD to stave off cognitive decline. Commitment to life-long learning can be done without formal education and boost your brain fitness as well.
There's More Than Meets The Taste Buds
Sugar activates pleasure centers in your brain, which causes you to crave sweet foods. New research shows it goes beyond the taste buds to light up these brain circuits
Easy Living - Good Or Bad For Brain Fitness?
With the ease of which we find food today, we may be robbing ourselves of the rewarding feelings that our ancestors used to get after the hunt. Research suggests that this may be a factor in modern rates of depression.
Feed Your Brain - Keep Your Mind
The blood supply that feeds your brain is crucial for life-long brain fitness and mental health. A new study shows that small blood vessel disease may account for on third of dementia cases. One of the best things you can do to protect your brain is to eat right and get regular physical activity.
A Donut Is Not Always A Donut - Timing Is Everything
New studies suggest that we are more sensitive to spikes in blood sugar from high carbohydrate foods in the morning than we are later in the day. Timing is everything.
New brain research sheds light on old advice. Mix it up to keep your relationships lively. Couples that do new things together actually keep brain circuits active that are associated with young relationships.
An Apple A Day Keeps The Brain Doctor Away
New research suggests that apples have the ability to save brain cells from death caused by oxidative stress.
Stress can damage a part of the brain involved in learning and memory, called the hippocampus. New studies provide clues into how that happens and what we can do to prevent it.
Use More Of Your Brain To Get Things Done
Older brains become more active when trying to get things done. The question is whether that activity if a good thing and improved performance or a bad thing and gets in the way. A new study shed's light on that question to support the idea that increased activation is good and helps the brain succeed. Approaches to maintain brain fitness can help ensure an active and alert brain in older years.
Ask Not What The HealthCare System Can Do For You . . .
With all the focus on health care coverage perhaps we should ask a different question. Why are we so sick in the first place? Maybe if the next president of the United States created some incentives for us to live healthier we could reduce the health care burden and cover more people.
Brain Fitness Case Study: Kris Kringle
Santa has to keep his brain fit in order to remember all those kids names, where they live and what they want. How does he do it?
Everyone knows that high sugar drinks, like soda pop, are bad for your waistline. Now new data shows that these drinks may also be bad for your brain as well.
A new study shows that exercise is a good anti-depressant because it turns up specific growth factors in a part to the brain that control stress and mood.
A new study shows that higher neuroticism scores are associated with lower omega-3s and higher omega-6s in the blood of healthy adults.
Eat Your Peas And Carrots, Or At Least Your Carrots
A new study shows that beta carotene, a form of vitamin A is beneficial for cognitive health, helping memory and memory recall functions that typically decline during Alzheimer's disease.
Nap Today, Perform Better Tomorrow.
Although many people steal hours from their sleep to get more done in the day, this may actually be counter-productive. New research sheds light on why sleep messes with parts of our brains and decreases our productivity.
The Mentality Of Physical Activity
Physical exercise in kids makes them smarter. Study after study supports that conclusion. Now, a new study shows that kids that exercise regularly do better on test assessing their cognitive function and math skills.
We used to think that both your genes and your environment get together to determine your health. While this is true, we now know that your environment has a big impact on your genes and the genes that you pass to your kids. You can actually modify your genes, for better or for worse, depending on your lifestyle choices.
Susceptibility to stress is partially controlled by your brain chemistry. New research unveils how some people may handle stress better than others. Still, an element of personal responsibility should not be thrown out the door.
Is The Road To Diabetes And Depression The Same One?
New research implicates insulin in the stimulation of brain centers involved in addiction. This adds fuel to the fire that high sugar foods can actually be addicting, leading to long-term cravings for sweets. Eventually high sugar intake can lead to type II diabetes and potentially depression.
The science of brain health supplements continues to emerge. New studies show the benefit of several key supplements in maintaining cognitive health and improving learning in the elder years.
Can Your Conscience Protect You From Alzheimer’s Disease?
How conscientious of a person are you? New research shows that the higher your level of conscientiousness, the lower your odds of getting Alzheimer's disease.
Eating - When Your Brain Won’t Say STOP
Impulse control is one of the biggest factors needed for successful weight loss. New research show a specific brain part involved in impulse control may be a little less active in obese people. The good news is that practice may be able to strengthen the circuits in this brain region and help regain control over impulses, enabling successful weight loss.
Reading Minds With Fitter Brains
'Reading Minds' is a skill that we can all learn. I'm not talking about science fiction, but being able to accurately interpret peoples emotions by looking into their eyes and faces. New research shows that specific brain hormones are responsible for our abilities to read others.
Your brain controls your metabolism. The fitter your brain, the better your metabolism works. New research shows how some brain cells stop working right in type II diabetes. However, certain lifestyle choices can help your brain work better, improve your brain fitness, and smooth out your control of your metabolism
Some Parts Of The Brain Improve With Age
As we age we have a natural tendency to filter out more bad experiences and accept good experiences. The question is, can we let the good side of life boost our confidence at any age? The answer is that if we work on our Brain Fitness, we can.
A Full E-Tank Increases Sports Performance
Many coaches neglect to build up their players emotional tank and are missing a huge opportunity to create better athletes. Too much correction and instruction can decrease a young athletes performance, while more focus on the positive can boost it.
Sports like soccer can boost more than just your athletic ability. They challenge your ability to regulate emotions, think creatively and make decisions. They increase your Emotional, Physical and Intellectual or EPIQ performance.
Harry Potter And The Unfit Brain
Harry Potter had a fitter brain than Voldemort. He tapped into a variety of moderate strengths whereas his counterpart really only excelled in one area. In the end, varied brain fitness is better - EPIQ performance.
Variety Is The Spice Of Brain Fitness: Part II – Nutrition And IQ
Simply put, good nutrition provides you brain with quality materials to build quality brain circuits. Poor nutrition provides your brain with junk to gunk up the system. Over time, good nutrition enhances brain function and poor nutrition increases the chance that brain circuits will break down and lead to dementia.
Variety Is The Spice Of Brain Fitness: Part I – EPIQ Performance
Intelligence is more than IQ. It's more than how 'book smart' you are or the grades you got in school. Intelligence also depends on your emotional intelligence (EQ) and your physical intelligence (PQ). Your level of brain fitness determines how well all of your intelligences work together to give you the best chance of success in life.
Treat Acne With A Low Glycemic Diet
New data suggests that a low glycemic diet goes beyond benefits for weight loss, chronic disease prevention and energy boosts. It also appears to help fight teenage acne.
Take That Pebble Out Your Shoe
When it comes to improving health, so many people are looking for the quick fix. But really it takes time. Don't subscribe to all the hype that you can improve your health overnight. The need for instant gratification is the enemy of success.
The best thing you can do for your country today is to improve your health. Declining general health and and aging population our stressing our health care system beyond what it can handle. Find an accountability partner and move towards health, for your country's sake.
Fast food restaurants are being forced to display calorie information. Will this help reverse the health care crisis?
Hold Your Head Up – Boost Your Memory
Keeping your head up does more that alert you to opportunities. By paying attention to your surroundings you are activating a powerful brain function that helps you store and recall memories.
New studies show that maintaining your blood sugar might help you control your willpower. A low glycemic diet can be another weapon to overcoming your bad habits.
Can Giving Improve Your Brain?
New science shows that the altruisim, the act of giving, activates brain circuits involved in higher thinking and social behavior. Since the brain follows the 'use it or lose it' rule, altruism might actually strengthen those circuits and improve your social skills - eventaully improving your own quality of life.
Vacuuming Boosts Health – If You Believe It
The placebo effect strikes again. A new study shows the power of believing that your everyday routines can help your health.