Go for a smart diet to groom your brain to become smarter

Eating high-quality foods that contain lots of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants nourishes the brain and protects it from oxidative stress. So it’s time to pay more attention to what you eat.

Here are some diet tips for your exam schedules

Instead of having a traditional breakfast, lunch and dinner, eat five or six light meals to increase concentration level. A large meal will slow you down physically and mentally as the process of breaking down and digestion of a large meal takes time.

Drink enough water before and during your exam. Dehydration can make you lose your concentration and lowers your energy.

Some food items should be avoided before or during exams as they are brain blocking foods. Cookies, cakes, and muffins require added time and energy to digest, food high in refined sugar, such as chocolates, desserts, and sweets, carbohydrates such as rice or potatoes can make you feel heavy and sleepy.

Eat brain-boosting food. Protein-rich foods that help in mental alertness are eggs, nuts, yogurt, cottage cheese. For breakfast, take almonds, walnuts, raisins, orange, banana whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk, toast with jam, porridge, oatmeal, or sugar-free muesli.

Plan a diet rich in omega-3 fats which are heart-protective and play an important role in memory, concentration, and calm depression. Sources of omega-3 fats in the diet are oily fish like salmon, tuna, seeds like flax, chia, melon seeds and sunflower.

Avoid consuming outside food until the end of your exams, junk and oily food slows down your body.

If your brain is deprived of good-quality nutrition, or if free radicals or damaging inflammatory cells are circulating within the brain’s enclosed space, further contributing to brain tissue injury, consequences are to be expected.

Now a days nutritional psychiatry is finding there are many consequences and correlations between not only what you eat, how you feel, and how you ultimately behave.