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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Better Your Brain Performance: Stop IQ Deficiency

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By Peter Werth

If you want to preserve your mental well-being and capacity, there are things that you should and shouldn't do for a good IQ. You may have personally experienced, or just heard from other people, of the mental boost that they get from smoking. Perhaps, for a short period of time such boost may be true, however in the long run, the effect of the tobacco consumption may be more dangerous to your brain than what you have expected.

An Addiction Research Center conducted a research regarding the long-term effects of alcohol on an alcoholic's brain functioning. As expected, alcohol was found to be associated with mental problems and lower IQ scores. And as an addition to their findings, they also found out that long-term smoking has an effect on decreased brain power.

Alcohol has an adverse effect on memory, problem-solving skills and even the IQ of alcoholic men. The results showed that alcohol has more severe effects on the thinking skills of alcoholic men who have been smoking for quite some time already.

Without picking on the drinkers, it must also be noted that tobacco smoking is also related to diminishing functions of the brain. The research team could not pin down the exact cause and effect, but the considered factors where high enough to suggest that smoking cigarettes DOES in fact have adverse effects on the brain. Further tests will need to be conducted for an outright, proven study.

There are still other things which may cause the reduction of your brain power, other than alcohol and smoking tobacco.

Poor Short Term Thinking performance - Other Factors To Consider

Scientists are great because they are always studying things. Foods including artificial sweeteners and artificial coloring may be detrimental to the brain, especially in large quantities. Kids are especially susceptible to such exposure... so keep your kids away from fizzy drinks, white bread, and bad oils.

The bad or "hydrogenated" oils can cause clogging in your arteries, which may also then lead to heart problems. Clogging of the arteries also makes it harder for blood to flow to your brain, so that is naturally going to decrease brain power. And getting back to the artificial foods, these cause fluctuations in blood sugar levels... these fluctuations cause "fogging" of the brain and can lead to much more serious problems such as diabetes. Needless to say, just say NO.

If you still want to know about things that may cause brain degradation include things such as egotism. Egotism is when a person just limits their ideas to ONLY their view on an any particular subject. Through egotism, people become settled with just their original thought and think that since their thoughts are more important than others, then there is no more need to look at the ideas that come from others.

As you may have noticed, the effects of the bad eating habits as well as the personal problems may just be temporary. Thus, if you stop eating all those junk foods and start eating healthy; and likewise stop being so egocentric, then your brain functioning may just return to its normal performance. Fortunately, these factors affect the brain efficiency temporarily; unlike with alcoholism and smoking wherein the effects really do affect the IQ.

Needless to say, look after your brain! Keeping it healthy shouldn't be looked at as a chore, it's only beneficial to YOU. And whether it's short or long term reduction in brain performance, you will still suffer... it's up to you to look after your brain, and enjoy life.

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