Healthy Brain Fitness Tip # 1
Eat Fruits and Vegetables
Believe it or not, your brain rusts as you get older.
The end result is Alzheimer’s, or as one of our patient’s
called it, “old timer’s disease”. But thankfully, nature
has provided the perfect WD-40 lubricant.
It is the rainbow of colorful fruits and vegetables - the dark purples
of blueberries, the deep reds of pomegranates, the rich green of kale
and collards, the bright orange of sweet potatoes. All of these colorful
foods provide powerful antioxidants that will give your brain lasting
benefits.
That’s a good thing, because, as a recent study in the Journal
of the American Medical Association found, people who ate more dietary
antioxidants had 70% less Alzheimer’s and dementia. This is one
powerful way to control one of the major causes of all disease - rusting
or oxidative stress.
Eat 8 - 10 servings (1/2 cup = 1 serving) of these lifesaving colorful
fruits and vegetables a day to help protect your brain.