The worst for our "gray cells" is this monotony. Even if you eat extremely useful and environmentally friendly products, but in a very limited assortment, the effect will be the opposite - the aging processes of the brain are accelerated. Simply put, if you sit for months on salad leaves and kefir or buckwheat with butter, this will very quickly lead to a decrease in memory and speed of thinking.

Also harmful to neurons is food stuffed with trans fats. Hence, by the way, the well-known statement in the West has gone, saying that people who regularly sit in fast food do not shine with intelligence. You have to be careful and with sweets. On the one hand, glucose is the fuel for the brain. On the other - cakes, cookies and donuts often contain generous doses of trans fat. If you want to feed the brain, you better eat a piece of natural dark chocolate or a couple of spoons of honey (or fruit and berry jam without preservatives).

At the same time, scientists say, our brain is not at all unnecessarily demanding. For him, the main thing is that the diet should contain vitamins B, C, D and E, Omega-3 acids. And that the daily diet at least a quarter consisted of vegetables and fruits. But meat, especially red, according to the latest research, it is better to limit at least two times a week. His enzymes reduce brain activity.

By the way, our diet is reflected not only in metabolic processes, but also in the volume of the brain. A person who eats properly and variously, the brain can be in volume by 20% more than those who eat anything, says BBC Health.

Also, to prolong the youth of the brain, glucoses are needed - slow carbohydrates (their sources are beans, beans, bananas, pasta from durum wheat, grain bread) and phosphorus (that is, fish and seafood) and calcium (cheeses and milk).

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5 Simple Exercises for Training the Mind.

As we have already said, our brain is not the most pretentious organ. He's smart: he understands that we do not have much time for supercharged things to feed him. So I agree to a small. There is such a thing - neurobic, that is, "charging for the brain". This is a set of the simplest exercises that actually serve to prevent the aging of the brain as a whole and Alzheimer's disease in particular.

"Blinded". From time to time, do the usual actions with your eyes closed. For example, to disassemble something on the table, eat, brush your teeth or move around the apartment. And the memory turns great, and just cool.

Change orientation. In the sense - right-handers become temporarily left-handed, and left-handed right-handers. And the usual household activities do not your "leading" hand - dial the phone number, switch the console, iron the laundry (only with driving and cutting meat do not take risks). This strengthens neural connections between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

Introduce an element of novelty. After all, we do a lot of things on the machine. The brain simply has nothing to work on, here it is,. Try at least to do daily work around the house in a different order (but you need to clean your teeth before breakfast!).

Play analytical games. Desktop or computer - it does not matter). It is proved that, for example, amateur chess players suffer from diseases associated with a decrease in memory and intellect several times less often. This applies to both men and women.

Draw. On anything and any way. When we transfer the visual image to paper, our thought cells just sing for joy! And also the tension is removed internally, which also goes to the brain only for the benefit of nedug. en.