Brain-Damaging Habits

Memory lapse has been becoming a common problem not only among "senior citizens" but also with the yuppies of today's generation (i myself included? hehehe). Check out if you have the following brain-damaging habits:

1. No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

(Is this the reason why, in the good ol' days, our parents always forced us to eat breakfast even when we were already late for school? Mothers and fathers indeed know best. :)

2. Overeating
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

(no comment...)

3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

(oh, i should stop occasional smoking! AS IF! hahahahaha!)

4. High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.

5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.

6. Sleep
Deprivation Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.

7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.

8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.

(what is the use of a sick leave?!)

9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

10. Talking
Rarely Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain

(good thing, i have a talkative officemate. from now on, i'll compete with her. hahaha!)