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Your list of 5 top foods was very informative. Bypassing the obvious mainstays of cruciferous veggies, garlic and onions, ginger and ginseng, and all kinds of nuts, I think that honorable mention should be given to spirulina and chorlella, pee pollen, aloe vera, coconut and muscadines.
Great points there Dave...those are indeed all healthy foods as well, and hence it was a challenge for us to widdle-down the list of foods to just 5 for our Top 5 list 
Best regards,
The BrainReady Team
Very informative post. I'll bookmark this page. And I'm glad chocolates and coffee are good for us.
Great article. It's wonderful to know my favorite foods - salmon, blueberries, chocolate, and coffee - are on the list. Now I just need to try some macha!
> My family and I have been using Sambazon acai daily for over 5
> years when it first came on the market and can attest to the fact that it does make a tremendous difference in health and
> attitude! It's so easy to use now with all the great choices. We drink the juice and take the Acai supplement tablets.
> We also frequently drink the smoothies at Planet Smoothie, which are great. My favorite personally is the Acai Juice in the purple bottle, but the sorbet is to die for!
Those in the UK can check out Brighton's Guarana Co. for a supply of Acai and Cocao... they may have others from the list too.
-C-
Good info. However, people who prone to kidney stones might have to avoid at least three of the items on your list:
Cacao beans, blueberries and coffee*.
http://
patienteducation.upmc.com...OxalateDiet.pdf
and/or drink lots of water to compensate.
*Foods I love and can no longer eat.
Very informative.. thanks!
I think the top three are ;
1- Hazelnut, most known considerable species are Giresun Quality from Giresun fields ( a northern city of Turkey )
visit the web address below
http://www.ftg.org.tr/devam_eng/..._eng/
health.htm
2- Walnut; Turkish walnuts have an interesting nut shape exactly like brain !!
3- Almond
any input on the goji berry?
If you didn't write in all those bold words I could actually read your article. It's straight up bad journalism to try and provide so much emphasis once or twice per paragraph. It makes me jump to the bold words which aren't necessarily the most important. Keep it to a minimum and you have a good article, otherwise, it's maddeningly impossible to read your otherwise well written pieces.
VERY INTERESTING ABOUT THE 5 BRAIN FOODS I NEED.....TO KNOW BECAUSE SOME TIMES I DEMAGE MY BRAIN WHEN I HAVE A ZEIZURE....AND I HAVE TO TAKE ( DILATIN FOR PROBABLY THE REST OF MY LIFE...>
Could you give your audience some information on Yerba Matte? Thanks
Yeah... whats the story about yerba mate? Im drinking it allmost every day and its great stuff. im sure it would be akin to macha tea. Put it on the page please!
I'm so thrilled to see the Acai berry recognized. And thank you for mentioning the challenge of getting it
processed properly and effectively.
There is a delightful Acai berry based
health beverage available through independent distributors called MONAVIE. Check out the website at: www.mymonavie.com/pamgalloway
I am taking Acai juice from the brand LiquMins that I bought at the WholeFoods store. I am new to the Acai and I just started and wondering if I have got the right brand and the good source of Acai juice from this company. I have been told that not every Acai is real and good quality. Anyone has an idea?
Hi all and thanks for the great feedback and discussion here!
Regarding Yerba Mate, we are indeed working on an upcoming BrainReady health feature that will tell all about this popular South American coffee/tea alternative, which we've tried on numerous occasions ourselves as well.
As a quick preview though, we can say that Yerba Mate does indeed contain numerous (natural) components which possess health properties across a range of areas...and it appears that the only significant "issue", and it's only an issue if it is indeed valid, is that there have been reports of liver toxicity reported in association with frequent/large Yerba Mate consumption. However, one can find different although arguably equal "issues" with consuming large amounts of coffee or tea or even Matcha (or almost anything else for that matter), and given the widespread consumption of Yerba Mate over such a long period of time, moderate consumption of high quality Yerba Mate is likely to be no less safe than coffee.
The earthy/grassy taste is fantastic, and particularly for those who don't like coffee/espresso or teas, this could be a nice alternative.
Before we recommend it though, we're still checking into the liver toxicity reports further just to get as much information on this as possible.
Stay tuned!
-The BrainReady Team
I thought I'd give Matcha a try, but the recommended Zenmatcha doesn't seem to be around anymore. Can someone recommend other reliable sources?
Fantastic ! Great article.......thankyou ! I'm a teacher living in Rome, and approaching 50. I've suffered from a range of health problems in the past, and in particular, sometimes all is not quite as it should be "upstairs". This is just the ticket ! Thanks again ! (up the Clarets !)
I was also looking for www.zenmatcha.com (this is the second time I've stumbled on this article, but I had lost the link) and found that the site was down. I did, however, find it with google at www.zenmatchatea.com.
I too am interested in goji berries. The problem with something like these is that without clinical study it's nearly impossible to measure the difference they make, and so I couldn't tell if it helped me at all when I tried it for a month.
That was a great list of foods. I like the points you make about
cheap coffee loaded with artificial sweeteners. I absolutely agree that if one is going to drink coffee it must be high quality to do any good. As for the other foods, they are consistent with the rest of the research I have read.
What scares me is that some of your assertions are so convenient, of the type "this food you didn't think you should eat is actually good for you". When you go against past wisdom, you should present solid evidence. I can't just change my life because you say so. Where are the groundbreaking scientific studies you boast of, double-blind, and not funded by a supplement manufacturer???
What a sceptic, that guy is! 
Health is one's most valuable section. So this is valuable for me and for others.
................
Nishantha
Addiction Recovery Alaska
Will taking supplements like Gapa, Gotu Kola prevent mental decline?
Good day!
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Thank you very much for your time.
really useful information....I know more about brain nutrition from this blog, thanks....
Acai controversy. Don't be fooled!
I am a native from the Amazon/Brazil and grew up on acai. Acai in my region, is the most consumed daily drink (it's like Coca-Cola in US), 1st because it's very cheap, which allows for high consuption specialy for the people of low income, which represents they main daily meal.
Now, what is interesting about: I never noticed that we (people from my region, including myself) have "special brain or any superior overall health condicions", in another words, even though I and almost every one of my people here grew up drinking acai daily and continue doing it for our lifetime, we don't show any particular superior health condition compared to any other people in earth who doesn't even know acai exists.
Don't take me wrong, my delicious acai is a healthy juice, like many of other juices are as well, but to say that acai is the "world number 1 antioxidant and antiaging food of the planet" as I have seen in many magazines, I doubt!
I have seen this movie before. Health Food Companies are always searching around the world for exotic fruits, roots and so on, so they can bottle it up and make billions on it, and that's the way I see my acai being promoted, until people figure it out, and than those companies will come up with another "miracle" food!!!
JM
good article.
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Great list, keeping everything w/out hype.
I would have liked to hear something about the acai supplement craze which is a total scam!
I wonder often about the wild samon used in sushi. I know salmon is good for you, as you mentioned, but mixed in sushi, does it take away from the healthy aspect?
well, i love salmon, chocolate, and coffee. i'm on my way to great brain health!
this is so stupid
we r fixen 2 start testing and so we r doing an article on brain foods..but brain foods aren't importanat so suck it =]
we r doin a article on brain foods...but who cares bout brain foods so suck
I love the list. Here's to raising awareness about brain health! Thanks.
Kevin
www.braindomain.org
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