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: