c. john wakefield

I have always been interested in the human body and how to look after it – the brain is no exception.

I have keenly followed programs on PBS  by Dr. Daniel Amen such as Your Brain or Your Life. Dr Amen’s research and the research of many other neuroscientists have come up woth list of brain care to optimize your own brain function. Here is a slimmed down list, read on down for a link to the complete list:

Brain Dos:

1. Wear a helmet in high risk situations
2. Drink lots of water
3. Eat healthy
4. Take gingko biloba, Vitamin E and ibuprofen everyday
5. Think positive healthy thoughts
6. Love, feed and exercise your internal anteater to rid yourself of ANTs (automatic negative thoughts)
7. Everyday focus on the things you are grateful for in your life
8. Spend time with positive, uplifting people
9. Spend time with people you want to be like (you are more likely to become like them)
10. Work on your people skills to become more connected to enhance limbic bonds
11. Talk to others in loving, helpful ways
12. Surround yourself with great smells
13. Build a library of wonderful experiences
14. Exercise
15. Eat in ways specifically tailored to your brain
16. Learn diaphragmatic breathing
17. Learn and use self-hypnosis and meditation on a daily basis
18. Remember the 18/40/60 rule
19. Effectively confront and deal with conflictual situations
20. Develop clear goals for your life (relationships, work, money and self) and look at them everyday.

Brain Don’ts

1. Isolate a developing baby
2. Use alcohol, tobacco or drugs or much caffeine when pregnant
3. Ignore erratic behavior
4. Lie around the house and never exercise
5. Ignore concussions
6. Smoke
7. Drink much caffeine
8. Drink much alcohol
9. Do drugs (NO heroin, inhalants, mushrooms, PCP, marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamines (unless in prescribed doses for ADD)
10. Eat without forethought on what foods are best for your brain

The complete list has 50 points for the dos and 50 for the don’ts and can be found here. Thanks to Dr Amen – keep up the good work.

The United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Israel, Russia and India advise that children limit their cellphone use. (AP)

Close to a dozen countries around the world have issued warnings or cautions about children using cellphones, but Health Canada has no similar message for Canadians.

France is about to make it illegal to market cellphones to children under 12. The United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Israel, Russia and India are also advising children limit their use of cellphones.

Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority encourages parents to err on the side of caution, saying radiation from cellphones could pose a health risk but the research into possible effects of prolonged cellphone use is unclear. In Russia, it’s recommended children under 18 not use cellphones at all.

But while a survey conducted by CBC-TV’s Marketplace on more than 1,000 Canadian children found almost half of nine- to 13-year-olds now have cellphones, Health Canada gives no such advice about the risks of cellphone use.

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via CBC News