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Brain Food
Eat breakfast – extra points for protein and fiber
Eggs
Increase intake of Omega-3 fatty acids
Eliminate processed and packaged foods — sugar, fats and chemicals

Sleep 8 to 9 Hours
According to researchers, sleep is necessary for the brain to process and consolidate knowledge and for memories to form. During sleep, researchers say, the hippocampus (where memory is stored) becomes highly active and moves knowledge from short-term memory to long-term memory. Scientists say sleep has the biggest effects on procedural learning, such as how a dancer would learn a new step, or how you would learn to fly an airplane or play a musical instrument.

Puzzles
AARP recommends brain teasers, crossword and sodoku puzzles to keep mentally alert.

Music
Frances Rauscher, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh showed how listening to Mozart improved mathematical and spatial reasoning.

Music has shown to consistently increase brain power is in younger children who receive music lessons. Rauscher found that preschool children given music lessons saw a 2- to 3-point boost in IQ scores over children given drama lessons or no extra lessons at all.

Learn Another Language
Studies show that people experience a general improvement in memory from studying a language. It has also been demonstrated that age-related decline in mental function can be halted by learning a new language.

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