Here is a quick list of brain healthy snacks that will satisfy your hunger and keep on track to your weight loss goal! Brain Healthy Snacks For more snack ideas refer to “The Omni Diet” Raw nuts (almonds, walnuts and cashews) Hard boiled eggs Piece of fruit Hummus Guacamole Wild smoked salmon Chicken skewers Raw…
Read this article and find out if any of your habits are having a negative impact on your brain. “Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry.” – Warren Buffet Lucy, a well respected scientist and entrepreneur in her early fifties from Boston came to…
Consuming foods high in trans-fat and saturated fat may not only have an effect on your physical health, but it may also play a significant role in how you feel! According to a recent study published here, individuals who consumed the highest amount of trans fat (such as fries, cookies, frozen foods) and saturated fat…
Holidays should not be an excuse to forget all your brain healthy ways. Tana offers her top 50 tips for a healthy holidays. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail! This is never more true than during the holiday season! The best time to start preparing for a healthy holiday season is now!…
It is the quality of your decisions that will help you live a long time… or send you to an early grave. A little forethought (and appropriate anxiety) is all that you need. When evaluating a decision, step back and ask yourself, “Is this really in my best interest? Will this make me better, stronger, healthier,…
Here is a list of the 9 most common types of ANTs, as well as, Dr. Amen’s descriptions of each and the negative impact they have on you. Over the years therapists have identified 9 “species” of ANTs or types of negative thoughts that can increase your risk for relapse: All or nothing Always…
Here’s how to maximize your brainpower. Article written from an interview with Dr. Amen. As published on Women’s Health online, February 13, 2013 http://blog.womenshealthmag.com/scoop/5-amazing-things-your-brain-can-do/ You know your mind is great at solving complex problems and daydreaming about Ryan Gosling, but it can do a lot more than that. Your brain can actually control everything from…
Having trouble with food pushers? Here are some tips on how best to overcome their pushy ways! Food pushers are all around us. Every day, we’re bombarded with the wrong messages about food. TV commercials, billboards, and radio ads are constantly showing us images of happy, attractive people enjoying greasy fast food, judgment-impairing cocktails, and…
Dr. Amen shares his own story on how he overcame his sugar addiction. As I was doing research for The Amen Solution, I kept coming across studies showing that high-sugar, high-fat foods work on the heroin or morphine centers of your brain. I even came across one study from a team of French scientists who…