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April 10, 2013 Leave a Comment

Coconut Oil and Cognitive Function

To Put it Simply: Your Brain Loves Coconut Oil

Coconut Oil

One of my favorite flavors in the world is coconut. It’s right up there with chocolate and coffee. I’m pretty sure Mounds candy bars were made just for me. Give me a Mounds and a cup of coffee and you won’t hear a peep out of me for a while.  I’m pretty silent when my own happy little Paradise.

Fortunately, chocolate (dark chocolate) has its health-related virtues (heart) and coffee is known to help prevent Alzheimer’s.  We’re beginning to hear more and more about the health benefits of coconut – which is just all around great news for coconut nuts like myself.

A recent article on Green Med Info caught my eye. How could it not? – It combined two things that interest me most in the world: Cognitive Function (as well as Alzheimer’s and Dementia Prevention) and the magic word… coconut. Coconut oil to be exact. (Buy Coconut Oil on Amazon)

Studies show that just one dose of coconut oil a day can tremendously boost brain function and cognitive ability.  Coconut oil has also shown AMAZING promise in the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia.

Read the fascinating article by clicking the link: How Coconut Oil Boosts Brain Function

You can learn more about Coconut Oil and its effect on Alzheimer’s and Alzheimer’s Prevention on Natural News.

 

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March 30, 2013 Leave a Comment

Yet Another Reason to Love Green Tea (and Drink it By The Gallons)

Add it to Your Alzheimer's Prevention Arsenal

Cup of Green Tea

There are already, seemingly, 1,001 healthy reasons to drink green tea. The antioxidants are great for your health and can help prevent many diseases and illnesses. What’s more, green tea acts like a spark plug to your metabolism, encouraging it to burn more calories by turning them into energy-giving fuel.

Personally, I love green tea and have for some time. Most people either strongly prefer it hot (like my oldest daughter) or iced cold (like my husband), but I love it at any temperature it’s comfortable at! I like to mix things up with what I add to my green tea, too. Sometimes I go with a little honey or a squeeze of fresh citrus, but most of the time, I drink it straight up because I’m wild about the flavor.

If you’re one of the millions of people who are getting serious about Alzheimer’s Prevention, now you have another reason to drink green tea. A specific molecule in green tea, known as EGCG, has been shown to interfere with formation of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s. EGCG breaks down existing aggregate structures in the proteins that contained metals—specifically copper, iron and zinc.

Pour yourself a tall glass of green tea and read more about the study here: Green Tea in the Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease.

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September 19, 2012 Leave a Comment

Foods to Avoid for a Sharper Brain

Burger and Fries

As you probably know, there are certain foods that are good for the brain. These brain foods should be eaten and enjoyed as often as possible.  Click the link for a great list of these healthy and delicious foods and, remember, what’s good for the brain is good for the heart – so you’re doing your body as much good as you are your mind.

What many people may not realize is that there are foods that are as bad for our brains as certain foods are good – foods that do untold damage to our minds as well as our bodies.  These are the foods we should avoid with every ounce of willpower we can muster.

Junk food, fast food, and overly sugary foods and drinks aren’t just harmful for our waistlines and hearts, they’re damaging to our brains.  Many experts attribute the alarming rise in Alzheimer’s cases to the American diet.  Many restaurants and food manufacturers are trying to turn the tide, but it’ll only be as successful as each individual (that’s you and me, kid!) allows it to be.

Make healthy switches in your daily diet and you’ll reap benefits in your body and mind. You’ll find that instances of “brain fog” fade away and you’ll feel sharper almost as soon as you make the healthy changes.  In the long run, if you replace junk food with healthier choices, you’ll be taking great strides in preventing memory loss and different types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s Disease.

Below are just a few ideas for you to incorporate into your daily life:

  • Completely swear off fast food breakfasts. These are some of the unhealthiest meals imaginable. Eat oatmeal or cereal at home, with berries (your brain loves berries!) added for extra oomph.
  • Fall in love with fruit smoothies and green smoothies. I’ve replaced my typical breakfasts with green smoothies and find that I no longer snack before lunch.  The nutrients in the greens, vegetables, and fruit in these smoothies aren’t just great for your brain’s health long-term, they help keep you sharp today.
  • For lunch, replace burgers and fries with healthier wraps, salads, and soup.
  • When eating out, always choose grilled, baked, or blackened over fried. Try to equate the word fried with “fried brain cells.”

If you try to quit fast food and junk food cold turkey, you probably aren’t going to be very successful in the long run. That’s why you need to find foods and drinks that can serve as viable replacements. Experiment until you find restaurants that have salads, wraps, grilled chicken, soups, and other healthy options that you LOVE.   Zaxby’s, Cracker Barrel, Subway, Panera Bread, and Beef O’ Brady’s have wonderful salads and other healthy options.

It won’t take you long to realize that healthy foods are 10 times more delicious than unhealthy foods.

Make each moment (and bite!) count double,
~ Joi

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July 19, 2012 Leave a Comment

Foods That Are Good For Your Brain: Oprah’s Great Brain Grocery List!

Brain Healthy Food

 

O, The Oprah Magazine recently released the Great Brain Grocery List in their August issue.  I absolutely love this!   As you know, we’re only as healthy (physically & mentally) as the food we eat.  The food on this list is good for your brain as well as the rest of you.

Make a point to start eating more brain healthy foods. Your brain will reward you for years to come.

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May 22, 2012 Leave a Comment

Eat This Daily to Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease

Steel Cut Oats with Berries and whipped heavy cream

Eat Berries Daily for Optimum Brain Health and to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease.

As you would expect, I read a great deal (make that great, great, great deal – daily) about mental fitness, brain fitness, and preventing Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Memory Loss. When I see certain tips and recommendations show up again and again, I quickly realize just how vital these particular tips are.

Then I start shoving them down your throat!

I write a lot about brain food and super foods that can help prevent Alzheimer’s Disease because our diet has been proven to have a HUGE effect on our brain’s health.  For a complete list of these foods, see Foods that Prevent Alzheimer’s.  For this post, I only want to concentrate on one particular type of food: beautiful, delicious, nutritious, and versatile berries.

Berries contain high levels of  components, including a class of compounds called anthocyanosides, which fight memory impairment associated with free radicals and beta-amyloid plaques in the brain. Scientific lingo for…. Berries help keep your brain out of trouble! Think of them as body guards – or secret servicemen – for your brain cells.  If you were the President of the United States, would you want to go out in public without your secret service men?

No way! You’d be WAY too vulnerable, right?

Start thinking of berries in the same light. Don’t allow your brain to face a day without several servings of berries.

  • Throw them into your oatmeal, yogurt, or cereal. I actually just finished a bowl of oatmeal with blueberries, strawberries, and a little whipped heavy cream on top (pictured at the top). YUM!
  • Place them in a bowl in your refrigerator, ready-to-eat, covered with saran wrap (that way you see them, sitting there in all their beauty).
  • Drink smoothies made from strawberries and/or blueberries.
  • Throw blackberries on top of frozen vanilla yogurt!

I read an article by a brain expert this morning in which she finished with the words, “Eat berries each day for maximum benefit.”  As I folded the paper and put it away, I answered her with, “Just try and stop me!”

Challenge Accepted.

Make each bite COUNT!

~ Joi

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April 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

How Exercise Improves Your Memory and, You’ll Love This, Even Makes You Smarter

Exercise protects your brain.

Remember when you were a kid, you just couldn’t sit still? You looked around everywhere for something to get into?! As it turns out, doing the same thing as adults can improve our memory, strengthen our brain, and prevent Alzheimer’s Disease.

As we’ve often talked about, exercise is great for relieving stress, clearing your mind, improving your heart’s health, preventing diabetes, controlling your weight, and a host of other benefits that’d take a day and a half to cover.

For those of us who spend a great deal of time thinking about mental fitness and brain health, exercise is a favorite weapon in our arsenal. It’s shown to improve your memory, prevent Alzheimer’s, and increase blood flow to the brain -which, let’s face it, is always a good thing. Simply put, exercise is one of the best ways to protect your memory, stay sharp, and prevent neurological conditions (dementia, Alzheimer’s…).  Even simply working out with hand weights is beneficial.

In fact, a recent Canadian Study showed that just a six-month stint of strength training slowed dementia in 70- something women.

But there’s more!

Studies with young men and women prove that they are sharper, smarter, and mentally quicker after exercise.

The Scientific American reports on HOW exercise actually  improves memory:  Exercise boosts the size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory and spatial reasoning.   Participants in the study took part in a program of walking for 40 minutes 3 times a week.

It seems that most people believe that only older people should begin thinking about Alzheimer’s Prevention and improving their memory. This type of thinking is ludicrous as well as dangerous.  People of all ages need to become active (literally!) when it comes to nurturing their brain, improving their memory, strengthening their mind, and preventing dementia.

A great first step is simply to become more active. Move more, sit less.

  • Walk each day.
  • Keep dumbbells near the television and work out while watching a favorite show.
  • Have frequent “activity bursts” where you get up and do anything you can find to do for 10 minutes. Clean house, walk around the house or yard, march in place, or walk in circles.
  • Park further from the door at the store.
  • Buy a pedometer and challenge yourself to walk at least 10,000 steps daily.
  • Take the long route to get everything you need in the grocery store.
  • Work out with resistance bands.
  • Make frequent trips to parks – walk, play, and be a general busybody!
  • Move, move, move!

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March 29, 2012 Leave a Comment

Stimulate Your Mind and Keep Alzheimer’s Off Your Doorstep

Willis Tower 3D Puzzle

First things first. What are information-processing activities?  Basically, this is a fancy way of referring to anything that makes you think.  Reading an Agatha Christie novel, an article online, a newspaper, or a romance novel are all information-processing activities.

Listening to the radio, watching an educational program on the Discovery Channel, and visiting historical sites and museums are also information-processing activities.

You get the picture. Anything that makes your brain cells sit up, take notice, and feel alive.

A National Institute on Aging study has found that people who most often participate in information-processing activities are 47% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than those who participated least often in these same activities.

“If you sit around and don’t exercise a muscle, it atrophies — and the same goes for the brain,” says Dr. Kimford Meador, MD, fellow with the American Academy of Neurology and professor of neurology at the University of Florida. The phrase use it or lose it comes to mind.

Below are more ways to stimulate your mind.

  • Read older novels. Your mind has to really stay on its toes to “translate” the language into today’s verbiage.
  • Paint by Numbers. A lot of people are more creative than they realize
  • Play cards. Learn as many card games as possible, then become the best player you know!
  • Visit museums.  Make it a point to visit all the museums in your state. Then branch out further.
  • Take up bird watching. Learn to identify birds in your region by sight and sound.
  • Pick up a new craft. Learn to knit, crochet, make soap, make candles, etc. Master one, then move on to the next.
  • Work several puzzles each day. Whether it’s Sudoku, crossword puzzles, or word scrambles – make them a part of your daily routine.
  • Work jigsaw puzzles regularly. Start simple, then move on to the challenging ones.
  • Buy a telescope and learn about the stars. New hobbies are rewarding in so many ways!
  • Choose an author you like and read every book he or she has written.  
  • Write your own novel!

A reminder: Don’t do the same activities over and over again – thinking that you’re hitting the ball out of the park.  There are different parts of your brain (some people think of them in terms of regions), and each part is stimulated differently.  The area of your brain that’s stimulated by a game of cards might not respond at all to painting by numbers.  Use a wide range of activities that encourage a wide range of benefits. Use art-based activities to encourage creativity, take up hobbies that encourage concentration and focus, frequently play games that require memorization, etc.

  The greater the variety of activities, the greater the benefits.

Photo Credit: The Willis Tower 3D Puzzle, shown at the top of the article is from Marbles: The Brain Store.

Product Description:
This museum quality 3D puzzle stands over 24 inches tall and boasts authentic details and sturdy construction. Whether you opt to call it Willis or Sears Tower, assembling this 51-piece puzzle will help you fine-tune your motor and visual perception skills.

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March 28, 2012 Leave a Comment

Brain Games: The Fun Way to Improve Your Memory and Prevent Memory Loss and Alzheimer’s

Memory GameA lot of brain fitness and health advice is good old fashioned common sense:

  • Eat lots of fruits and vegetables
  • Get plenty of rest
  • Reduce the amount of stress in your life
  • Be active

We’re familiar with these healthy tips because we’ve been reading them for more years than we’d care to count. These 4 rules are the core of every disease-prevention tool box out there.  Diabetes, cancer, heart disease, obesity, and so on – none of these tend to favor the individual who eats a healthy diet, gets plenty of activity in their life, gets around 7 hours of sleep each night, and manages stress (rather than the other way around).

The fact that we’re so familiar with them is what concerns me.  Sometimes we take them for granted. They become like the old standards:

  • If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all.
  • Wash your hands before eating.
  • Brush your teeth 3x a day.
  • Always say PLEASE and THANK YOU.
  • etc…

I don’t have to point out how few of these we adhere to religiously. Don’t tell my dentist, but I can’t remember the time I brushed my teeth 3x a day.

When we hear things so often (or read them, for that matter), we get to the place where they don’t even register.  How many times have you read an article about health and fitness and just glanced over the paragraph about trans fats as you thought, “Yeah, yeah, tell me something I don’t know.”?

When advice can help us live longer and live better, we need to stop glancing and start advancing.  Our heart and our brains desperately need for us to eat healthier, stress less, get more activity, and sleep 7 hours each night. Don’t wait until problems creep up before you give your life a healthy overhaul – do it before any problems are even thought about.

One of the Most Important Necessities of Brain Strengthening

In addition to the healthy advice above that we’re all going to start LIVING OUT rather than LEAVING OUT, an equally important part of brain strengthening, improving your memory, and preventing Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia is this:  Work out and challenge your brain each and every single day.  Yes, you should read a variety of subjects.  But if you want to really challenge your brain and flex your mental muscles, you need to fall in love with brain training games.

These brain training games can improve your memory, train you to think faster, help you focus, and make your confidence soar.  Some games that you may have on your shelves qualify: Scrabble, Monopoly, Pictionary, Checkers, LIFE, etc.

As someone pretty much… make that very much… obsessed with the subjects of brain health, fighting memory loss, and preventing dementia (including Alzheimer’s), I’d love to see people collecting and using brain training and strengthening games as faithfully as resistance bands and dumbbells.  A pet peeve is when people put their ALL into their physical health without thinking about their mental health whatsoever.  Certainly, many things that improve our physical health also improve our mental health – but it takes more.  And, seriously, what’s the use of a strong body if one has a weak mind?  Our brains are our control centers. They deserve more of our attention!

For optimum brain strength and health, we have to challenge our mind and work it out as we do the rest of our bodies.

That’s where brain games can be golden. And fun!  The game shown at the top of this article is a perfect example. This game is the Name 5 Game and it should, in my humble opinion, be the first brain game added to a growing collection.   Why? Because it meets the criteria:

  1. It’s fun! You’ll play regularly – for fun without even thinking about it’s function.
  2. It’s effective. The Marble Store’s Brain expert puts it this way: “Activate your frontal cortex as you think critically and make decisions during this game.” What they said.
  3. Games such as this train you to think fast on your feet. Remember in school when the teacher asked a question and your hand darted up? Or when you completed homework in 20 minutes because your bike was waiting for you? We can train our brain to work faster again. The great thing is, it’ll be as fun as a bike ride!

I hope you’ll click through and check out this exciting game, as well as the countless others in Marbles: The Brain Store. You might want to start with their 2012 Marbles Sweet 16.  WHERE you start isn’t nearly as important as THAT you start.

Make each moment count double!
~ Joi

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December 6, 2011 2 Comments

Prevent Alzheimer’s and Age-Related Memory Loss

Can you prevent Alzheimer’s Disease and age-related memory loss? Most definitely! Make the right lifestyle changes and your brain will reward you for years to come.

Mental fitness and brain health are… excuse the pun…. on everyone’s mind these days.  Not only are baby boomers actively searching for ways to keep their minds sharp and their brains healthy, other generations are seeking the fountain of youth for their minds as well.  You’re just as apt to see a 65 year old in the store, loading up on crossword puzzles as you are a 22 year old buying brain games.  I absolutely love that more and more people are waking up to the importance of good mental health and to the urgency of staying mentally fit.

Remember when we all believed that losing your memory was a part of aging. Thank goodness we know better now!

The time to start getting really serious about strengthening brain is today. Right now.  People with strong minds live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives.  What’s more, they retain their memories and abilities to process information much, much longer.

The following list, in no particular order, gives you our mental fitness blog‘s 10 favorite ways to keep your mind sharp and healthy.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. – Henry Ford

Get Plenty of Mental Exercise: 

Like any muscle, the brain can suffer atrophy.  If you keep that thought in the front of your mind, you’ll no doubt seek out ways to “work out” your brain each day.  Below are a few ways to sneak in fun workouts for your mind. Please remember to do one or more of these daily.

  • Crossword Puzzles.  Never underestimate just how mentally stimulating a crossword puzzle is.  The ones that run in newspapers are pretty challenging – and they make the cost of the newspaper EVEN more worth it.
  • Jumble Puzzles.  These often appear in newspapers as well, allowing you to get even more bang for your buck.
  • If you don’t buy or subscribe to the newspaper (something I urge you to do for many reasons, including supporting local businesses and neighbors), you can find many puzzles online.
  • Start calculating mentally rather than using pen and paper or a calculator. Whether you’re adding up bills or shopping, go as far as you can mentally before resorting to extra help.
  • Grocery Store Game: Mentally keep a running tab (rounding to the nearest dollar) of the amount of money you’re spending.  At the cash register, it’s fun to see how close you actually come.
  • Subscribe to National Geographic Magazine.  Each magazine provides amazing, exciting, and beautiful lessons.  Bonus Mental Work: After reading each article, mentally “pull out” 5  facts and memorize them. Throughout the week, quiz yourself on the facts from each article.
  • If you’re more of a visual learner, use the above advice with the National Geographic channel (as well as NatGeo, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, The Travel Channel, etc.)
  • This goes back to newspapers (and is another excellent reason to subscribe or buy a local newspaper daily): Stay on top of local news.  Sadly, more people currently know more about celebrity news than they do world events. I recently overheard a conversation between two women in Starbucks. They were discussing the Kardashians and seemed to know more about them than most members of the infamous family does!  Then one literally said, “By the way, do you have any idea who Michele Bachmann is? My daughter asked me this morning and I was like, I dunno…“  They then proceeded to move their conversation back to Kim Kardashian and I was never more happy than the moment the barista called my name and handed me my Chai Tea Latte. I could escape!  Staying on top of current stimulates the mind.  At the very least, know who the players are!  You can’t really avoid celebrity or pop culture news and events. We’re surrounded by it, everywhere we look. But if your idea of current events is who the last pair was to leave Dancing With the Stars, you need to re-evaluate and stop, mentally, eating only junk food!
  • READ, READ, READ. Read books, magazines, shampoo bottles, blog posts, brochures, etc. Your brain LOVES to read and process information. Never deny it this delight.  Remember, bonus points are racked up when you read informational, educational, and “deep” content.
  • Play video games.  That’s right, I said it!  Did you know that many experts believe that video games can help keep you mentally active, keep your reflexes, reactions, and responses sharp, and (get this) can even help prevent Alzheimer’s Disease!  Now that doesn’t give you free range to play video games for hours on end each day. That would leave no time for other activities like reading, socializing, or stretching your mind in other ways.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. – Lloyd Alexander

Stay Creative

A strong and healthy mind is a well-rounded and creative mind. Never get stuck in a rut where you think about, talk about, or participate in the same things over and over again. Growth doesn’t happen in ruts. What’s more, creativity dies a slow death in ruts.

  • Write!  Buy a journal or even a great notebook and simply record your thoughts and feelings each day.  Bonus points: Every now and then, put your feelings in the form of a poem.
  • If you have family that lives far away, write to them often. Everyone, young or old, loves to get a letter in the mail.
  • Consider setting up a personal blog. You’ll learn something new (how to run your own blog) and you’ll have a wonderful place to let your creativity flow.
  • Head to a local crafts store or the craft section in your favorite department store. Buy a project that interests  you and let your creativity flow!
  • If you have small children around, don’t just read them stories, TELL them stories. When my girls were younger, they actually preferred the stories I made up to the ones I read.
  • Don’t read the same types of books or the same authors all the time. Mix things up!
  • On your next trip to the library or bookstore, grab a magazine about a subject you know nothing about.  If you don’t cook, grab a cooking magazine and read different recipes, tips, and cooking terms. If you aren’t familiar with birds, grab a magazine about birds and learn about the different beauties. Travel magazines are also fascinating.  Expose yourself to different subjects – when you do, you take your brain on fascinating  journeys.
  • Take up cooking. If you already cook, learn a new style or type of cooking each month.  One month you may specialize in Chinese cooking, the next month you may move on to authentic Mexican cooking or Amish recipes.  Mix things up and avoid the dreaded rut.  If you’re new to cooking, tune in often to the Food Network, visit food blogs, and buy popular cookbooks.
  • Listen to Classical Music. It’s relaxing, beautiful, and helps clear your head from thought overload. Bonus: Learn about the composers!
  • Do things differently.  Take different routes to regular destinations, eat with your opposite hand, use chopsticks in Japanese restaurants, etc. When you mix things up, you perk up regions of your mind that might otherwise be lulled to sleep. Do I even have to tell you how dangerous it is when these regions doze?!?!

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese Proverb

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October 27, 2011 Leave a Comment

Improve Your Memory and Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease One Bite at a Time

What’s something we do every day, without fail? In fact, woe be unto the person who tries to stand between us and this activity?!

Unless we have a stomach virus from Hell, we eat and drink each and every day. Without fail. In fact, we eat and drink pretty much throughout the day. If you were to count the number of bites and sips over the course of a day, it’d be pretty amazing. Then if you counted them all up at the end of the week, you’d be astounded.

That’s a lot of bites and drinks! What’s really worth spending a little time thinking about is this: Each of these bites and each of these drinks is either ADDING to your overall health and well-being or they’re TAKING AWAY from your overall health and well being. If we’re going to allow so many foods and drinks to pass our lips, doesn’t it make sense to choose wisely?

I spend a great deal of time researching healthy foods for the body and mind. Not only do I do research for this mental fitness blog, I also do research for my food blog and self help blog. The same super foods turn up again and again. I’ve often said that what’s good for your heart is also good for your brain and when it comes to food, this is abundantly true. Did you know that the foods that are unhealthy for your heart (such as salt) are even unhealthy for your brain?

For example, Omega 3 Fatty Acids (cold water fish) help protect your brain from dementia and improve your memory. If you don’t typically eat a lot of salmon, trout, and mackerel – the time to start is now. Make a point of having these amazingly delicious and healthy fish several times a week.  Your brain will thank you for it, as will the rest of your body.

The following are just some of the foods that are known to improve your memory, protect your brain, and help prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease:

  • Walnuts
  • Avocados
  • Peanuts
  • Olive Oil
  • Salmon
  • Trout
  • Vitamin E
  • Vitamin C
  • Vitamin B12
  • Whole Grains
  • Blueberries
  • Cherries
  • Plums
  • Broccoli
  • Eggplant
  • Corn
  • Asparagus
  • Onions
  • Strawberries
  • Bell Peppers

From Everyday Health:

Give yourself a memory boost with dark berries that help keep blood vessels in the brain clear and protect brain cells from damage. Eat fruits like blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries. Blueberries and similar foods have been shown to actually reverse age-related memory shortfalls in humans and animals. Oranges, cherries, plums, and red grapes are also great memory food. – Everyday Health

Make each moment count double,

~ Joi

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