How Eating Fats Can Make Your Smarter
What foods enhance our thinking and creativity and which ones
destroy our mental performance?
There is much evidence that our modern diet is having a major
effect on the functioning of our brains. Research has shown that
our brains actually work best on the prehistoric diet that
shaped their evolution.
For generations, hunters and gatherers survived on wide game,
wild greens, fruits, berries and roots. However, this diet has
changed dramatically in more modern times. The typical western
diet today revolves around large quantities of processed and
fast foods. The nutritional difference between our ancestors'
diet and our current one is striking, particularly in the type
of fats that we eat. These differences were examined by Jean
Carper in her book "Your Miracle Brain". She found that,
compared to a stone age diet, we consume: