11 steps to a better brain

11 steps to a better brain 28 May 2005
(source: New Scientist)

Extract:
Don't forget to snaffle a snack mid-afternoon, to maintain your glucose levels. Just make sure you avoid junk food, and especially highly processed goodies such as cakes, pastries and biscuits, which contain trans-fatty acids. These not only pile on the pounds, but are implicated in a slew of serious mental disorders, from dyslexia and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) to autism. Hard evidence for this is still thin on the ground, but last year researchers at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, California, reported that rats and mice raised on the rodent equivalent of junk food struggled to find their way around a maze, and took longer to remember solutions to problems they had already solved.


Full article: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18625011.900

Like I heed this advice when somebody at works says in an email at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, goodies in the usual place!

I try to refrain myself but the pull of sweet gravity is just too much sometimes!