Everything you eat is going to influence the way your brain functions; I am convinced of that. It just makes sense if you think about it. Food gives your body the raw materials it needs to build, replace and repair everything and to operate efficiently. Read the rest of this entry
I am one of those people who strongly believe that if you want to be mentally fit you need to keep your brain active.
A neighbor’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s about two years ago and yet this woman, in her early eighties with Alzheimer’s still manages to play bridge. She was a Life Master and played for 50 years and that part of her brain still functioned well. Her daughter told me that her mother had no idea if she ate lunch that day but still could play cards with friends.
Everything in the research indicates that just as the key to our long-term physical health depends upon our healthy lifestyle of good nutrition and exercise, so does our brain’s health. Just as our physical health depends upon our body’s cells being healthy and our muscles constantly receiving oxygen-rich blood, healthy brain cells also need a good supply of blood. In fact, there is evidence which points to the fact that this same healthy lifestyle, which can’t by itself prevent the disease, they can reduce the debilitating impact of Alzheimer’s.
It is the same old saw, for body or for mind: Use It or Lose It!
What are you doing to stay mentally active?
How about you?
To your healthy aging success.
Ruthan Brodsky
