8 ways to increase your brain power

1. Color foodfood's natural color is darker, the higher their antioxidant content may be. Eat more natural foods of color, can lower blood pressure and brain function, and can inhibit the process of cognitive disorders associated with aging. Nutritionists recommend "color foods" including: Blueberry, cranberry, red wine and Curry of food containing turmeric. 2． Fasting daystudy showed that regular fasting (month day) can stimulate a special glucose, thus contributing to the brain more effectively convey information. 3． A lot of readingusually read or surf, read a lot of information, information that helps the brain to form a new channel, enhancing the information transmitting ability of the nervous system of the brain. Survey shows that, at the age of 55-76 in the age of Internet users, a simple Web search will be able to greatly improve their language skills and reading ability, and enhancing its attention. 4． Gamewhether playing "open dictionary" or "I love the lyrics" games, forced recall information is not very common, can significantly improve long term memory, recall and reasoning abilities. 5． Swap hands withtry-for-hand (rarely used) complete some daily activities can stimulate "brain regions responsible for learning, memory and movement". Brush your teeth with your other hand or writing, you can make more flexible mind. 6． Some musicnot only by way of listening to classical music, to reduce levels of stress hormone in human body, increasing serotonin levels in the blood, thus improving the brain processes information and the ability to store information. As long as you want to listen to any music, can benefit the brain. 7. meditationstudy shows that used to meditation monks there is a lot of gamma wave activity in the brain (brain circuit formation of connection signal). Studies also show that monks left prefrontal cortex layer (brain area associated with compassion, altruism and generosity) activity is better than ordinary people more. 8． Came dressedin the dark, with both hands touch to select and get dressed. Try different senses (such as the sense of touch instead of Visual) complete the daily activities, you can increase the synaptic activity of the brain, thinking more agile. （Adrienne Grezo/文 徐澄/译）（据《青年参考》）