Brain Booster Serie
Water, proteins, carbohydrates, fats vitamins and minerals are the brain food for peak thinking performance. Each of them has their own role in feeding the brain, each can be associated with a particular food source in which it is most easily found.
The question is how to identify good brain foods and improve our diet with these essential brain boosting ideas?
What do we mean by good quality food?
Nutritionist encourage us to go for the "nutrient dense" rather than "empty calories".
Empty calories food are particularly highly processed foods like pastries, biscuits, sweets and chocolates, sugary breakfast cereals, preserved meats ad high-fat salty snacks. Most of the time these food consumption will make us meet - or even EXCEED!!! - our daily calorie requirements and they DO NOT contain the necessary vitamins and minerals needed to encourage mental and physical health.
On the other hand, good quality whole foods are the freshest fruits and vegetables, crisp salads, fresh fish and naturally reared poultry and meat, whole grains, nuts, seeds and pulses.
Most of us mistakenly understand that such food only contain carbohydrates, protein and fat. To lose weight most of us leave out carbohydrate, where in our diet we leave out rice and we only eat fruits and vegetables which we think only contain vitamins and minerals. This is totally wrong, a misconception that have been practised by most of the women who want to slim down.
The truth is, all foods contain some protein, fat and carbohydrates, plus an assortment of vitamins and minerals. For an example, although chicken, fish and beef are predominantly protein foods, they still contain small amounts of carbohydrates, and although brown rice supplies a lot of carbohydrates, it still contain some protein, vitamins and minerals. Vegetables and fruits supply lots of vitamins and minerals in a primarily carbohydrates base
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