Brain-Smart Foods – Improving Cognition, Memory, and Preventing Dementia

Brain activity requires energy. In fact, the brain uses more energy than any other organ. In an active state (when you are awake and alert), the brain uses energy to fire neurons and develop new connections; in a sleeping the brain uses energy for cell maintenance. In all, the brain uses about 20% of the total energy you use every day.

It is also an established fact that nutrients are carried to the brain through the blood. And nutrients get into that blood from what we consume. The obvious conclusion from this fact is that we need to be consuming …read more