Your Brain and Your Health

In this article, I am going to discuss of having protein in your diet and how it affects your brain.  How can protein affect your brain you say?  Well, protein does affect your muscles, organs and tissues and the development of same.  Just like the other parts of your body, your brain needs protein for it to function properly.  We need our brain in order to digest, or store, the day-to-day facts and figures presented to it each day and the processing of all this information.

Making sure you have a good diet of protein is a basic nutritional need.  It is part of your ability to keep your brain healthy and functioning as it is intended to be.  Therefore, keep it healthy with protein foods, vitamins, and minerals in order to make your brain as well as your body thrive.

So how do we know we are getting the proper amount of protein in our body?  The answer to that depends on each person’s individual needs.  All of our bodies are different.  Our age, our weight, our height, our overall general condition all go into determining what is right for us.  The USDA has guidelines that could help you determine what amount of protein you should consume.

Keeping a journal of your protein intake and other foods consumed for about a month would help.  Jot down your daily weight.  If you do not gain any weight at the end of that month, you can be sure you are eating the right amount of foods to allow you to maintain your weight.  Working with a nutritionist should help you determine if what you did consume was adequate in terms of protein, vitamins and minerals.  The food pyramid as published by the USDA is also a good guide to help you determine if you are eating the proper proportions.

Throughout your planning of what foods to eat and how much of it to eat each day, you are using your brain.  You are mentally exercising it to think and reason.  Your brain will get exercise and you are working towards your health at the same time.

Do this together with exercise and safe recreational choices and you are well on your way to a healthy body and mind.

Maybe now you have a clearer picture of the opportunities we have our brain to affect our health.  It is more than just conscious decisions.  It is a result of brain development through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.  It is a result information we have previously absorbed, and input we will continue to receive.

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