Health Tip: Eating a Brain-Healthy Diet

(HealthDay News) -- What you eat can go a long way toward keeping your brain sharp and efficient.

AARP.org offers these brain-healthy nutritional suggestions:

• Vegetables -- Eat as many as you can, of all different colors, shapes and varieties.
• Antioxidants -- Found in vitamins C, E and beta carotene, you should get plenty of these substances. They occur naturally in many fruits and vegetables.
• Omega-3 fatty acids -- They are found in fatty fish such as mackerel, herring, sardines, anchovies, whitefish, tuna and sablefish.
• A B vitamin -- Take one daily.
• A multivitamin -- Also take one daily, but never exceed recommended dose. Taking more vitamins doesn''t make it healthier -- doing so could be dangerous.

-- Diana Kohnle

Last Updated: Sept. 09, 2008

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