Tag: "brain"
Exercise Builds Better Brains
I knew it!!! I knew there was a reason my Health Habits readers are so much smarter than the average person on the street. It turns out that all of that exercise you do improves brain health and actually promotes the growth of new brain cells. The Research In a new study (published here), researchers [...]
Your Anti-Senility Prescription
This post is for everyone out there with a loved one over the age of 50. .New research shows that our lifestyle choices (nutrition and physical activity) have a powerful effect on age related cognitive health. Translation: Senility is mostly preventable with diet and exercise. And guess what? The same lifestyle choices that have created [...]
Supercharge Your Brain On A Low Carb Diet
It is generally believed that our brains need sugar to operate at peak efficiency. This argument has been one of the strongest indictments of low carb diets such as the Atkins Diet. It may also be totally false. In fact, according to a new study published in the October 2008 edition of The FASEB Journal, [...]
Binge Eating: Is Your Brain Making You Fat?
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that “overeating throws critical portions of the brain out of whack, leading to a malfunctioning hypothalamus, metabolic inflammation, insulin resistance, leptin resistance, obesity and type 2 diabetes”. The study, published in the October 3 issue of Cell, attempts to expand on previous research which showed that over-nutrition [...]
Pregnant Mothers intake of Omega 3 key to Babies Big Brains
In a study led by Harvard Dr. Emily Oken, researchers concluded that three-year-olds whose mothers ate more fish while pregnant with them score better on several tests of cognitive function than their peers whose mothers avoided seafood. Fish consumption of 2 servings/week was not associated with a benefit. Conversely, the study also found that the [...]
