Healthy Food Choices: Brain Foods

Brain foods like fruits and fish are important for fueling your brain all throughout the day. Learn some tips on eating brain foods and keeping your mind active in this video.

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Refuel brain with food throughout the day
Fruits, salmon & fatty fish are brain foods
Don't take long periods of time between eating

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Alice Merritt is currently the Campus Dietitian at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She has a masters degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in public health with a concentration on nutrition. Alice has worked as a registered dietician for four years, and believes that helping people reach their nutritional goals will lead to a long and healthy life.

ALICE MERRRIT: Now, I'm going to talk to you about brain foods. Your brain actually needs to be refuelled throughout the day, and our brains function best on carbohydrates, things coming from fruits especially strawberries, blueberries, prunes, which is a dried fruit, is also been shown to be a good brain food, and then salmon or fatty fish can also help boost your memory and your concentration. Another thing that really helps keep our brain going throughout the day is fuelling yourself regularly. You never want to have long periods of times or skipping meals because then your energy level goes down and your blood sugar level goes down and your brain doesn't have any energy to function. So, important things to remember about brain foods is, again, eating lots of blueberries, strawberries, you can put on your cereal, on your oatmeal, mix it in with you yogurts, also making sure you get at least two to three servings of salmon a week and again incorporating prunes into trail mixes or mixing that into your yogurt. Eating a variety of foods, making sure you eat consistently throughout the day to refuel your brain. All of these things will really help keep your brain going and you thinking and concentrating well.

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