How to balance diet and brain health?

1. A comprehensive and balanced diet is the material basis for ensuring the normal function of the brain. The working efficiency of the brain is amazing, and the energy consumed is also amazing. The energy consumed by the brain accounts for about 20% of the total human consumption. Among them, protein is the main material basis for exciting and inhibiting brain cell processes, especially glutathione in protein, which is an antioxidant and an enhancer for preventing brain cell aging and improving brain vitality. Brain nutrients, various enzymes, antibodies, neurotransmitters, certain hormones and other substances with physiological functions are inseparable from protein. In addition, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and trace elements in the diet are also essential substances for brain activities and brain cells.

Therefore, in daily life, people's diet proportion and choice must be comprehensive and balanced, in order to enhance the nutrition of the brain, improve the activity ability of the brain and ensure the health of the brain.

2. Brain-nourishing foods in the diet: corn, millet, soybeans, soybeans, bean products, black sesame seeds, peanuts, various melon seeds, brown rice, spinach, mushrooms, mushrooms, seaweed, day lily, jujube, chestnuts, almonds, lilies, longan, fungus, fish, eggs, honey, pollen, etc.

3. Several eating habits harmful to the brain 1. Skipping breakfast or not eating breakfast is easy to make the brain in a state of hypoglycemia, which makes the brain lack of nutrition supply and is harmful to the brain. Neglecting breakfast will lead to insufficient protein content in breakfast, which will affect the intellectual development of the brain.

2. Improper diet control is beneficial to physical and mental health, but blind dieting and excessive dieting will make the brain undernourished and damage brain health.

3. Partial eclipse habits People with partial eclipse habits will make the nutrients needed by the human body unbalanced and incomplete, thus damaging the normal function of the brain.

4. Eating too many snacks will reduce the appetite when eating, and also make the abdomen often in a state of intense work, so that blood is often concentrated in the digestive organs, which will easily lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain and affect the normal function of brain cells.

5. Eat acidic food. Some people often like to eat acidic food. When the acidic constitution is in a serious state, it will directly affect the neurological function of the brain, leading to the decline of memory, thinking ability and neurasthenia.

6. Eat artificial additives, such as artificial colors, artificial flavors, artificial preservatives, etc. If it is excessive or does not meet the food hygiene standards, it will also have adverse effects on the brain. It is best to eat less or no food with additives.

7. People who often drink too much will directly paralyze the cerebral cortex through the blood-brain barrier, causing disorder of excitement and inhibition of the central nervous system. Over time, it will lead to mental decline and even induce dementia.

8. People who eat too much and are greedy often eat too much. Eating too much will do harm to the brain in many ways. First of all, if you eat too much, the blood vessels in the digestive tract will expand for a long time, mobilizing a lot of blood to the gastrointestinal tract, making the brain often in an ischemic state, affecting the normal function of the brain; Secondly, eating too much is easy to be "obese", which makes the wrinkles (sulcus gyrus) of the cerebral cortex disappear, and the brain neural network is underdeveloped, which leads to the decline of intelligence level; Moreover, overeating will inhibit the intelligent areas of the brain, because the autonomic nerve center responsible for gastrointestinal digestion is excited for a long time because of overeating, which will inhibit the excitement of the intelligent areas of the brain such as language, thinking, memory and imagination, and reduce intelligence. People often say that "greedy people tend to be stupid, and greedy children are not smart". This is very reasonable. If you eat too much, constipation will occur, and toxins in your body, such as methane, phenol, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, histamine, etc. Can't be excreted in time. These harmful substances are easily reabsorbed through the intestine and enter the blood circulation. When they enter the brain, they will stimulate the brain and cause chronic poisoning of brain nerve cells, thus affecting the health and intelligence of the brain.