Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants, Video Games, Music, & Meditation

Re:Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants,... by jackchristopher on Friday January 30, 2009 @11:46AM (#458272)

We hear a lot about the benefits of antioxidants, but I get the sense that people think they're only found in special foods.

Here's an overview of antioxidants, and foods high in them: http://www.ific.org/publications/factsheets/antioxidantfs.cf...

And a well-cited list of the benefits of many common foods: http://www.whfoods.com/foodstoc.php

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Re:Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants,... by gravitycop on Friday January 30, 2009 @12:42PM (#458367)

We hear a lot about the benefits of antioxidants, but I get the sense that people think they're only found in special foods.

Antioxidants are found in high levels in hundreds of different culinary herbs and spices. The point, throughout human history, of adding herbs and spices to foods, besides flavoring those foods, was to preserve.

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Re:Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants,... by silentbicycle on Saturday January 31, 2009 @08:53AM (#459545)

Also, one of the biggest sources of antioxidants in the foods Americans commonly eat is coffee. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9105892/)

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Re:Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants,... by jodrellblank on Friday January 30, 2009 @07:42PM (#459008)

The whole foods list is quite interesting, but I'm getting alarm bells from the contradiction between:

"Healthiest Way of eating as long as it is a whole, natural, nutrient-rich food"

And the "reduced fat cheese, skimmed milk".

Cheese is not "natural" food and skimmed milk is certainly not "whole".

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Re:Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants,... by jackchristopher on Saturday January 31, 2009 @11:09AM (#459725)

I don't approve of every food there, but it's still a good resource. But I think they're minor aberration, particularly over the meaning of "whole" and "natural".

Point being, while he is promoting a book and website, I don't see an agenda behind the foods he's recommending.

I'm vegan actually, but I don't think it's appropriate to give a personal dietary rundown in HN.

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Re:Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants,... by jodrellblank on Saturday January 31, 2009 @09:59PM (#460423)

Oh I'm not suggesting the author of that site of has an agenda, just that people were for a long time drinking whole, unpasteurised, unhomogenised, untreated fresh milk, and on a site proclaiming a strong recommendation for the whole, natural, unprocessed way-things-were, those two stuck out at me as if ... they were a cached thought that hadn't been recomputed to fit with the rest of the philosophy.

There's enough in the unprocessed dietary recommendations to grab my interest, from Weston Price's book studying rural tribes to insulin tolerance being at the root of more than just diabetes, to grab my interest. Perhaps not a HN topic though.

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