How to be a Brainiac – Part Five (double whammy)
Posted on February 17, 2012
First – Don’t drown your sorrows at the bar!
Did you know that vitamin deficiencies occur primarily when eating habits are abnormal? This is most common in heavy social drinkers and alcoholics; they fill up on alcohol and don’t maintain a normal diet. The calories in alcohol are called “empty” calories because they lack the proteins, vitamins, and other nutritional substances people need. The resulting vitamin deficiency, which is usually a thiamin deficiency, can be very sneaky! The symptoms – confusion, memory problems, and difficulties in walking – may come on very gradually. And because family members and friends are often not aware of how much someone is drinking, they may not think of a vitamin deficiency as the explanation. If caught in time, this condition is readily treatable by eliminating alcohol and adding vitamins and proper diet.
Second – Don’t smoke. (Don’t act like this is the first time you’ve heard that smoking is bad for you.)
According to the article by Candice Hughes on Livestrong.com, “The adverse health effects brought about by smoking tobacco are well publicized.” “As it turns out, smoking is also a major cause of impaired cognition in the form of memory loss, lower IQ, altered chemical makeup in the brain as well as impaired brain function in fetuses.” You want to know more about that, I’m sure. So read more at
http://www.livestrong.com/article/339427-cognition-smoking/#ixzz1mYohFiBE
And thus concludes my 5 part lecture to you all. Just remember what the United Negro College fund said (but for sort of different reasons) “A mind is a terrible thing to waste!”