25 Best Foods to Increase Brainpower

 Keeping your brain healthy is not just all about "brain games."  These twenty-five foods can also increase your brain power.

The brain is really like a control center for the entire body, which means you must feed it well, and that includes eating foods for brainpower. Read more

Can Cinnamon Make You Smarter?

Cinnamon not only tastes delicious, but it also may make you smarter, according to a new study.

It's long been sprinkled on bowls of porridge and added to bread for tasty toast.

And now scientists claim cinnamon could actually make us smarter by improving our understanding.

A study has found slow learners who consumed the household spice could process new information quicker by affecting proteins in the brain. Read more

Eating Chocolate Improves Brain Function

A new study has found that eating chocolate could help protect against normal age-related cognitive decline.

Cheering news for those with a sweet tooth – a recent study has found that regular chocolate consumption is associated with better cognitive function.

According to the study, published in the journal Appetite, chocolate consumption was found to be associated with cognitive performance “irrespective of other dietary habits.” Read more

The Best and Worst Brain Foods

Food is the ultimate natural remedy since we have to eat. Here's a list of the best and worst foods to eat to for performing various mental tasks.

If you want to make the right decisions in confusing times—Time to refinance? Explore a different career? Root for the singing spinster or the 12-year-old?—you need to pay special attention to what you eat. That’s right: Your grocery list can help with your to-do list. That’s because the right foods are a kind of clean-burning fuel for your body’s biggest energy hog: Your brain. A study in the Journal of Physiology makes the point that, though your brain represents only 2 percent of your body weight, it makes 20 percent of the energy demands on your resting metabolism.

On our new Eat This, Not That! Web site, we rounded up the best foods to munch on when you need a mental boost—and found studies that show, in fact, that you can be up to 200 percent more productive if you make the right eating choices. Stock up on these items to halt mental decline, jog your memory, sharpen your senses, improve your performance, activate your feel-good hormones, and protect your quick-witted sharpness, whether you’re 15, 40—or not admitting to any age whatsoever! Read more