Food as Brain Medicine: Step 2

This is Dr. Daniel Amen's 2nd step for keeping your brain healthy, from his book: Making a Good Brain Great:

2. Calorie restriction

Substantial research in animals and now in humans indicates that a calorie-restricted diet is helpful for brain and life longevity. Eating less helps you live longer. It controls weight; decreases risk for heart disease, cancer, and stroke from obesity (a major risk factor for all of these illnesses); and it triggers certain mechanisms in the body to increase the production of nerve growth factors, which are helpful to the brain.

Researchers use the acronym CRON for “calorie restriction with optimal nutrition,” so the other part of the story is to make these calories count.

Patsi's note: This may be the hardest of all to keeping your brain healthy. But the research is clear: not only do you have to cut back calories to look and feel better, but a low calorie diet promotes healthier neurons. Furthermore, sugar has deleterious affects on the brain. The good news is that skinny is smart. The bad news is that it's so hard to say 'no' to eating! Your choice...

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