Increase Your Chances Of Living Longer

Breakfast Make breakfast your power booster, it really is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast boost your brain power, lifts your mood, keeps you slim and takes only ten minutes a day. Researchers have found that the overnight fast leaves your brain starved. If your glucose levels are not boosted in the morning by an intake of food, certain brain functions can be adversely affected, most notably your memory. Breakfast eaters are greater in verbal fluency, are better able to recall and use new information. They are more sociable, outgoing and alert. Children should be encouraged to eat something before leaving home in the morning, even something as simple as a glass of orange juice or fruit shake.

Don't Feel Guilty According to the conclusion of a study conducted in London England, people who felt guilty about eating a given food were more likely to eat more of that food than those who ate what they liked. It also showed that people who get great pleasure from food and love to eat appear to have a higher sex drive than those who pick at their food and feel guilty about eating too much.

Dehydration Make sure you drink eight to ten glasses of water a day, more if you exercise heavily. Don't wait until you feel thirsty. Once you feel thirsty, you've already begun to lose a significant amount of fluid. As your fluid level decreases, you'll start to notice a decline in physical performance.

Too Many Carbohydrates Try to make sure your meals contain a balance of carbohydrates and protein. If you eat lunches that are high in carbohydrates but low in protein, you may find yourself feeling tired in the afternoon.That is because carbohydrates increase the brain's production of the calming chemical serotonin.
Research suggests that protein, by limiting serotonin production, can offset carbohydrate induced sleepiness and help you to avoid those mid afternoon slumps.

Taste Buds Contrary to previously held beliefs, the number of taste buds does not decrease in old age. Desensitivity, however, can occur as a result of illness, medication, or zinc deficiency, but it is reversible.

Biological Clock Don't try to catch up on your sleep during the weekends by sleeping late. Instead catch up on weekends by going to bed early. We all have a biological clock that determines when we are alert and when we are sleepy. When you wake up every morning at six or seven but sleep until noon on weekends, you can upset your biological clock and end up feeling even more fatigued.

Vision Vision problems can hamper concentration and may cause fatigue. If you are having a hard time focusing, leaning forward into the computer screen or hunching over your desk, have your vision checked.

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