The brain accounts for 2 percent of our body weight and consumes approximately 20 percent of our daily calorie intake. It’s common to resolve to lose weight, but any sane person dreads how dieting dulls your mind. In fact, many studies have shown that counting calories, carbs or fat grams, is distracting — to the point that it taxes short-term memory. But how we eat can affect our minds at more fundamental levels, too.
Your brain likes to eat and it likes powerful fuel like quality fats, antioxidants, and small steady amounts of the best carbs.
Are you on a deadline? Then you should avoid drinking soda, vending machine snacks and tempting Starbucks pastries and go for one of these powerful brain boosters instead. The path to a bigger, better brain is loaded with Omega-3 fats, antioxidants, and fiber.
Give your brain a much needed kick start by eating the following foods on a daily or even weekly basis:
Avocado
Blueberries
Wild Salmon
Pomegranate
Chocolate
Olive Oil
Tuna
Eggs
Tomatoes
Green Leafy Vegetables
Nuts
Seeds
Coffee
Oatmeal
Beans
Brown Rice
Tea
Oysters
Garlic
Cacao Nibs
There are also foods that drain your brain like alcohol, corn syrup, sugar, nicotine and meals heavy in high carbohydrates
Like we said before the brain is a hungry organ and its cells require two times the amount of energy than that of other cells in the body. To work well and efficiently throughout the day, this energy level must be kept high enough so not to cause mental stress and exhaustion.
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