Rethink snacks
Searching for a word, but the upstairs engine feels stuck? Maybe it's your snacks that are putting a hiccup in your mental giddy-up. Or more so—what you're not snacking on that's leaving you feeling mentally stranded.
I have a way for you to combine "crunchy" and "sweet" while coming away more satisfied and healthy than if you'd just grabbed a package of cheesy puffs. They'll just stain your fingers orange anyway. But if you don't mind staining your fingers to begin with, then you won't mind the color blue, which is what you'll get from a handful of blueberries.
Follow that with a small handful of walnuts. It'll give your jaws a nice workout, and your brain the power to get through a mental workout.
Why berries and nuts?
New research supports that this sort of variety in your diet boosts brainpower. The study was conducted using older lab rats that were fed diets that contained two percent, six percent or nine percent walnuts. The results showed a reversal of brain aging and motor and cognitive deficits related to aging.
I want to stress one particular word here: reversal.
Most disease and aging processes become a case study in management, with only the hope of having a reversal. But here's a remedy that fits neatly in the palm of your hand and all you have to do is chew.
Does that sound like something you'd be willing to do to help you come up with that word a little faster out of your memory bank?
The researchers said that the six percent diet they used with the rats would be equivalent to your eating about one ounce of walnuts per day. A side benefit of eating walnuts is that this amount is also recommended for lowering your LDL "bad" cholesterol—not to mention a healthy amount of fiber.
Talk about a stem to stern remedy!
