14 Safe Ways to Change Your Brain

Enhance Your Health Too! 

Jam-packed with wellness ways to optimize your body-brain, with interesting links to articles, studies, and app… even a "Come On Man" funny video clip.  Thanks Kaitlyn for this handy article.

Pros and Cons of Every DIET

See the Scientific Basis of Each Diet Plan

Diet Spotlight is a truly amazing website, featuring analysis of every diet plan imaginable.  How do diets compare?  Are there effective diets?  Which diet is best?  Here is a reliable source of nutritional information.

Superstar Anti-Aging Foods (video)

Check out this wellness website!

Dr Ann Kulze, M.D., delivers wellness pure and simple with dozens of free videos addressing anti-aging, kids nutrition/health, weight loss/appetite control, general nutrition tips, fruits and vegetables, pregnancy, exercise/fitness, immunity, cancer, supplements, and beverages. Dr. Ann’s articles are worth reading as well.

Wellness Wheel (graphic)

The goal of wellness is balancing all seven areas

Don Alsbro, originator of Dump Your Plump motivational wellness program, perfectly represents the meaning of wellness using a graphic taken from his book, Take the Wellness Road. Spend time reflecting on this Wellness Wheel. Estimate what you have done in the last 24 hours to foster each of the seven wellness areas – Physical, Intellectual, Social, Environmental, Spiritual, Emotional, Nutritional, and Vocational. Determine your strengths and areas needing attention; joyously seek total well-being today.

Smart Foods

Food Combination and Mental Performance

Joshua has compiled a list of articles that make a great deal of sense for those of us interested in optimizing body brain function. This article on Smart Foods advises us how to eat a balanced diet that both stimulates and relaxes the brain. Check out Joshua's website for other helpful information focused on natural brain fitness. Many articles relate to Avoidant Personality Disorders and Depression.

Exercise Your Brain with Neurobics

Neurobics works to keep your aging brain fit

Lawrence C. Katz and Manning Rubin offer ‘83 Neurobic Exercises to Health Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness’. Thank you Scribd.com for offering this free e-book packed with practical ideas. Chapters include Starting and Ending the Day… Commuting…At Work… At the Market… At Mealtimes… and At Leisure. Hat’s off to David Suter for his novel illustrations creatively representing this science of brain enhancement.

Jump Start Your Brain

Ten techniques to keep your aging brain fit

Ken Currier’s writing for Stuff Your Brain Likes website, has briefly outlined what we can do to keep our brain vibrant throughout life. His article is a good reminder of brain plasticity – its remarkable ability to refresh itself throughout life, given well chosen exercise and nutrition.

Note: The Health Care-toon shown above is taken from the Health Care-toon Calendar, 365 Ways to Look and Feel Great by cartoonist Ed Fischer and Jeff Haebig. Visit WellnessQuest.com for a daily Health Cartoon and related wellness ideas.

Nutrition for Healthy Skin

Keeping your body beautiful from the inside out with nutrition

Becky Hand has posted 120 articles relating to nutrition. Simply write the name Becky Hand in the Search Box at the top of the SPARKPEOPLE website and presto! You will discover a rich resource of insightful and delightful nutrition articles that will satisfy your healthy appetite. This article on ‘Making a Healthy Diet Your Beauty Secret’ is excellent for rejuvenating your skin. Water, green tea, avoid simple carbs (darn), and ingest the ten recommended nutrients. Let’s give a big hand to Becky! Jeff

Invest in YOR Health

Start by reading this excellent article on lifestyle and nutrition

This insightful article found on YOR.com relates today’s higher nutritional and environmental stresses on the body brain. Most statistics are taken from Nutrition Made Simple by Robert Crayhon, M.S., C.N., named one of the top 10 nutritionists in the U.S. by Self Magazine.

Tuna and Eggs Maintain the Brain

Get enough Vitamin B12 to help maintain the size and function of your brain

As an aging Vegan in large part, I am concerned about my diet’s impact on my brain as I am sure many other post baby boomers are. One of my favorite wellness websites RealAge.com featured a timely article related to diet and maintaining the size of the brain with Vitamin B12.

25 Super Bowl Recipes

Super Bowl party healthy eats will score winning wellness points

EatingWell.com offers free, flavorful recipes for your Super Bowl Party. Eating healthier lip-smacking foods with less sodium and fat will have people scoring nutritional points with their body brain as they watch the game.

Introducing the Brain Food Pyramid

Nourish Your Brain – Enrich Your Life

http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/pyramid.html The Franklin Institute presents an animated presentation helping you learn how Glucose. Micronutrients, Fatty Acids, and Amino Acids nourish the brain. What a wonderful website. Simply click on the nutrient you want to explore and related topics are offered. Truly amazing – a great resource!

Jeff Haebig

Age Well with the REAL AGE Website

Live Life to the Youngest!

http://www.realage.com continues to be one of the very best wellness websites – and it’s free! Sign up and received bi-weekly e-mails containing useful health information designed to enhance your total well-being. This is one phenomenal wellness resource!

Jeff Haebig

Working Out Improves Sleep Patterns

Wake Up to the Importance of Exercise

Rebecca Pratt, staff writer for http://www.sparkpeople.com/ has written an article pointing out how quality sleep is as important as exercise and good nutrition on your total well-being. Sleep deprivation interferes with your immune system fighting off disease and blood sugar regulation. Good sleep reduces stress and sharpens the brain. Daily exercise greatly improves the quality of sleep.

http://www.sleepfoundation.org/ National Sleep Foundation offers many sleep-related articles free of charge. Hot Topics, Ask the Expert and Library Highlights are featured. Here's to a solid night sleep.


Jeff Haebig

Obesity -- Learn to Cut Your Calories

Dr. Hans Diehl is the Real Deal when it comes to eating well!

Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Institute and originator of CHIP, Coronary Health Improvement Project -- Hans Diehl provides clear voice and many useful ways for you to achieve body brain well-being through healthy eating.

Watch http://www.chipusa.org/about_hans.html video entitled, 'Obesity -- Learn to Cut Your Calories' and see why Dr. Diehl has a vast following of nutritional enthusiasts around the world, many of whom like myself are vegan or vegetarian.

http://www.chipusa.org/ offers free nutritional videos and articles -- they are excellent! This is the site to get "healthy not by chance but by choice!"

http://www.dumpyourplump.com/ Dump Your Plump offers a team approach to weight management. Created by Don Alsbro, this fun incentive program is simple to conduct and highly effective.

Jeff Haebig