Your mental energy and ability to concentrate depend to a very large extent on the types of food you eat. Unfortunately, most people fall short when it comes to understanding how to best feed the brain. Here’s a short tip you may find helpful:

One of the quickest things you can implement to improve brain power is to modify the protein to carbohydrate ratio of your lunch. While it’s all too easy to down a large, tasty plate of food- most of us wind up ruining the rest of the afternoon’s mental productivity by consuming meals that are loaded with excess carbohydrates.

The modern diet suffers horribly from a surplus of carbs-with most meals having a protein to carb ratio in excess of 4:1. According to multiple lines of research, however, the human brain tends to perform much better with a ratio that is closer to 1:1 [Sample reference provided below].

So in other words, most people would do well to markedly reduce the amount of carbs in their lunches. By doing so, you’ll also lessen the chance you’ll become one of the 1 in 3 Americans who are slated to develop diabetes, which in itself is a major player in ruining the integrity and health of your brain cells.

[Reference: Fischer K, Colombani PC, Langhans W, et al. Carbohydrate to protein ratio in food and cognitive performance in the morning. Physiol Behav. Mar 2002;75(3):411-423.]

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