Principles of nutrition

1. Carbohydrates: the appropriateness of three energy-producing nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins and fats.

2. Protein: Neurotransmitters that maintain various activity states of the brain and participate in nerve conduction are composed of or derived from the amino acids of protein.

3. Fat: The protein and gray matter in the brain contain a large amount of sphingomyelin, and essential fatty acids participate in the synthesis.

4. Minerals: Inorganic salts such as calcium, zinc, iron, copper and iodine play an important role in brain learning and memory, central nervous system excitability, and oxygen supply to the brain.

5. Vitamins: Mental workers need abundant vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, folic acid and vitamin C, etc.

Suitable foods

1. Staple foods and beans: Choose foods rich in minerals such as wheat, japonica rice, black rice, black sesame, etc.

2. Meat, eggs and milk: pig heart, pig brain, pig marrow, milk, beef marrow, sheep kidney, donkey meat, pigeon meat, sea bass, mandarin fish, yellow croaker, hairtail, fathead fish, sea cucumber, etc. Food rich in protein and vitamins.

3. Vegetables: Choose vitamin-rich foods such as cabbage, yams, taro, mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, and carrots.

4. Fruits: Choose foods rich in fat and protein such as lotus seeds, lilies, longans, jujubes, jujubes, mulberries, raisins, and lychees.

5. Others: beans, eggs, milk, fish, walnuts, sesame seeds, honey, corn, millet, fungus, daylily, and enoki mushrooms.

Diet taboos

1. People who are accustomed to eating salty food will not only cause high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis and other diseases, but also damage arteries and blood vessels, affecting the blood supply of brain tissue. The brain cells will be in a state of ischemia and hypoxia for a long time, resulting in mental retardation, memory loss, and even premature aging.

2. Excessive lead content in food can damage the brain and cause mental retardation. Foods include: popcorn and preserved eggs contain lead oxide and lead salts. Lead has extremely strong penetrating ability.

3. Aluminum-containing foods can cause memory loss and slow thinking. Therefore, don’t eat fried dough sticks for breakfast. For staple food. If you often use aluminum pots for cooking and boiling water in aluminum pots, you should also pay attention to the problem of increased aluminum intake.