The food we eat provides our brain with the nutrients and energy that it requires to stay healthy, be emotionally resilient and have clear mental focus. Often when we talk about a “healthy” diet, we focus on the levels of fat or carbohydrates (i.e. sugar) in the foods...
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Getting into the Nitty-Gritty of Sleep
Thinking Whilst Sleeping It’s that familiar feeling. You have been working on finding a solution all day. Trying to get to the root of the problem to no avail. Still stuck on one last elusive piece of the puzzle. So you give up, go to sleep and hope for better luck in...
The Brain Benefit of Exercise
If there is one thing that we are all certain of in 2018 it is that exercise is good for us. Time and time again we are told about the benefit of exercise for our health. That it helps to protect against an ever-growing list of life-threatening diseases. And reminded...
Food For Thought. Debunking the Myths.
You are what you eat. It’s an age old saying that we hear time and time again. How our personal dietary choices affect our health. Our heart. Our waistline. But let’s move slightly upwards in our anatomy for a moment. And instead focus on those precious three pounds...
Dreaming: A Look Inside Your Brain
Dreaming: A look inside your brain. What did you dream about last night? Can you remember? Maybe. But maybe not. That is what is strange about your dreams. Sometimes it is as if you didn’t dream at all during the night. Other times you remember your dreams as a vivid...
Why Can’t You Sleep On the First Night in a Strange Bed?
It never fails. You’re out of town at a conference or a corporate meeting and must give a presentation on an opening day. But you’re not worried. You created stellar audio-visual materials. You’ve practised your speech until you have it timed down to the second. Your...
Sleep is for Wimps . . . Or Is It? Part 2
In part 1, we discussed the development of a perceived correlation between reduced sleep and success, or at least increased productivity. Stories abound of people we regard as geniuses sleeping very little. These stories then distorted themselves into the belief that...
Sleep is for Wimps . . . Or Is It? Part 1
In his excellent 2013 talk, Why Do We Sleep?, neuroscientist Russell Foster discusses many of the points we will mention here. But he starts by saying that the average person, if they live to 90, will be asleep for 36% of their life, or 32 years in total. That would...
I Prefer My Day To Be Tasty
“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating." —Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, 1981” Quoted in Van der Wal & van Dillen (2013) This article is about food, and...
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