Brain-tonifying foods:
1. Garlic (garlic food)
The source of energy (energy food) for brain activity mainly relies on glucose. To play its proper role, a sufficient amount of vitamin B1 is required. Garlic itself does not contain a large amount of vitamin B1, but it can enhance the effect of vitamin B1, because garlic can produce a substance called "allinamine" with B1, and the effect of alliamine is much stronger than that of vitamin B1.
2. Eggs
The protein contained in eggs is one of the best proteins in natural foods. It is rich in amino acids (amino acid food) needed by the human body, and the yolk except In addition to being rich in lecithin (lecithin food), it is also rich in calcium (calcium food), phosphorus, iron (iron food) and vitamins A, D, B, etc., which is suitable for mental workers.
3. Beans and their products
Require high-quality protein and 8 essential amino acids. These substances help enhance the function of cerebral blood vessels. In addition, it also contains lecithin, rich vitamins and other minerals, which is especially suitable for mental workers.
Soybean fat contains 85.5% of unsaturated fatty acids, of which linolenic acid and linoleic acid (oil food) are high in content. They have the effect of lowering cholesterol in the human body and are useful for middle-aged and elderly mental workers to prevent and It is particularly beneficial to control cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
4. Walnuts and sesame seeds
Modern research has found that these two substances are very rich in nutrients, especially unsaturated fatty acids. Therefore, eating them regularly can provide the brain with sufficient unsaturated fatty acids with smaller molecules such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid to eliminate impurities in blood vessels and improve brain function.
Walnuts contain a large amount of vitamins, which are very effective in treating neurasthenia and insomnia, relaxing the tension of the brain nerves, and eliminating brain fatigue.
5. Fruits
Pineapple is rich in vitamin C and important trace element (trace element food) manganese, which is helpful to improve people’s memory; lemon can improve people’s acceptance ability ; Bananas can provide the important substance tyrosine to the brain, and tyrosine can make people energetic, focused, and improve people's creative ability.
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