Sharpen Your Brain Skills

Want to avoid Alzheimer’s disease? Then boost your brain power now! Discover new ways to keep your brain active in order to stay on top of your game.

Health.com, has provided a list of new ways to sharpen your brain:

Catch up with your zzzz’s: getting at least six hours of sleep will help you perform better for work, school or your workout.
Munch on those almonds! Nuts are great for you, especially almonds, walnuts and cashews. Peanuts have a bit more fat in them but are still good for you. Magnesium, a mineral that may improve your memory is found in nuts.
Not pizza, but go for the olive oil, veggies and fish; these Mediterranean-type foods can lead to less body damage as you grow older.
Go blue!!!! Fill up on blueberries for breakfast, snack or even dessert. There is a suggestion by the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry that this fruit has plenty of a specific kind of antioxidant that helps the brain delay in memory loss.
Breathe, meditate….relax! A busy life can stir up feelings of anxiety and stress which keep your brain from retaining new information properly.
Is scrabble a word? Yep, we are telling you to play scrabble, which shouldn’t be too hard. Today they have scrabble in a board game, as an app for iPhones and even in the back of magazines and newspapers. Boosting your word skills could protect against memory loss.