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Healthy brain food to eat for a healthy life

Healthy brain food to eat for a healthy life

Healthy brain food to eat for a healthy life

I am going to share with you the best brain foods now. If you're on a plant-based diet or a ketogenic diet or paleo diet or whatever it doesn't really matter because those foods that I'm going to share with you are absolutely the best.

Vegetables and leafy greens

The first food is vegetables and leafy greens Kale, spinach, and broccoli. These are excellent for your brain health especially because they contain lots of antioxidants, fiber, and some really amazing vitamins such as vitamin K, lutein, beta-carotene, and even folates. Studies show that people who eat high amounts of these foods have the lowest cognitive decline.

Berries

Now the next food is berries are extremely healthy because for two reasons. First, they contain lots of antioxidants, and secondly, they contain flavonoids and these compounds can improve your memory. Actually, a study was done on women showed that women who were given at least a couple of servings of blueberries and strawberries per week had delayed memory decline for at least two and a half years.

Omega-3 fatty acids

Now the next type of food is all foods that contain omega-3 fatty acids. Chia seeds, flax seeds, walnuts are wonderful and contain a really high amount of omega-3 fatty acids, and they're perfect. They can fight depression, decrease anxiety, improve your eye health, brain health. They can optimize your prefrontal cortex also. You probably know your prefrontal cortex is important for making decisions for planning for rational thinking and attention span.

Walnut consumption was linked to better results and improved cognitive test scores. Nuts also contain vitamin E, a very powerful antioxidant that was linked to decreased Alzheimer's disease. So the higher the amount of vitamin E the lower the chance of getting Alzheimer's disease. Most nuts are really healthy especially almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, macadamia even Brazil nuts are good.

Vitamin C fruits

Fruits are absolutely fantastic especially those with a lower glycemic index. Lemons and oranges. They contain a very high amount of vitamin C. vitamin C is one of the key elements in preventing cognitive decline, and it's a very powerful antioxidant. Actually, people who live in so-called blue zones, and they're considered some of the healthiest people the healthiest populations in the world, and they have the lowest amount of cognitive disabilities the cognitive decline Alzheimer's disease, and those people eat tons of fruits.



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