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Articles tagged "current issues on nutrition":
29 articles found
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.