Your Brain May Be Crying Out For The Right Fats

Memory challenges could mean a lack of the right fats

Have you walked into a room lately and wondered what you went there for? Or maybe put a specific item in a really safe place, and now cannot remember where the safe place is? Maybe you were introduced to someone a while ago, met them again recently, and couldn’t recall their name? These ‘senior moments' could be due to a lack of the right fats in your brain.

How Toxic Is Your Cooking Oil?*

Toxic oil found in the golden oil aisles at your local supermarket

Why should you care about damaged oil molecules?

A toxic oil molecule is an oil molecule that has changed shape and no longer looks like an oil molecule that nature designed. This means that these damaged oil molecules are toxic to your body...

Nasty Food Additives - Know Which Ones Are the Worst

What we do know about food additives is alarming...

Food additives are used in most processed foods today, to keep the food from going off on the shelves in the supermarket, and to entice children (and adults) to purchase them, because they’re brightly colored and tasty. Unfortunately, there is a lot that we don’t know about the long term and combined effects that these additives could have on our health, and the health of our children. But what we do know is alarming.

5 Lifestyle Tips To Help Your Brain

These Lifestyle Tips Could Help Save Your Brain

Research has shown that there are a number of activities that can be incorporated into your lifestyle that can prevent cognitive and physical decline. Adopting some simple daily habits, and doing them regularly, as well as paying closer attention to the ones you do anyway, will result in both cognitive and physical health, as you get older.

What’s All The Fuss About A Gluten-Free Diet?

Gluten Is A Very Tough Protein

Gluten is the common name for a small group of proteins that are found in wheat, rye, barely and oats. It is also found in other, more ancient forms of grass-like cereals, such as spelt, kamut and triticale.

10 Food Tips To Help Your Brain

Simple Food Habits To Help You Preserve Your Precious Brain

Although the brain is such a complex organ, determining who we are, and how we navigate our way through this world, its maintenance and care doesn’t have to be complicated. Just keep these basic facts in mind:

Why Are Trans Fats Dangerous?

You have to become vigilant about your "food"

60 Minutes produced a documentary on trans fats recently. Here is a summary about these dangerous fats, as well as some extra information that wasn’t covered in the documentary.

Can The Right Fats Help Your Child To Grow And Develop Optimally?

If they aren't getting enough you could be compromising their health.

Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s) have so many important roles to play in health, because every single cell in your body requires them. And as up to 95% of people are deficient in them, the important roles they play are being compromised.

Your Computer Is An Extension Of Your Brain

Is this a good or a bad thing?

We live in a technology-driven world. If you’re not checking your txt messages, or sending one, then you’re reading an e-mail. All on one little device that wasn’t in general use fifteen years ago.

And then there are our computers, and the information that pours from them, into our lives. But isn’t there a downside to all this technology?

Your Aging Brain Needs Specific Nutrients To Stay Healthy

Your brain cares about what you put in your shopping trolley

Although the discussion about brain aging generally centres on cures for dementia, with Alzheimer’s being the most common type, very few people discuss the possibility of preventing the problem in the first place. Isn’t prevention always better than cure?