Ways To Keep Your Mind Sharp

Keeping your brain sharp and preventing mental decline involves more than just the brain itself. By working to keep your mind sharp, you can improve your attitude. Nothing angers a person more than not being able to remember important things or events. Healthy practices in many areas of life will help you keep your brain, as well as your body, in top shape.

Here are tips to keep your mind sharp
Eat a healthy diet
Too much or too little energy throws a kink in the brain’s delicate machinery. A low glycemic diet high fiber, with moderate amounts of fat and protein is broken down more slowly in the body than high glycemic foods, such as sweets and white starches. A steady pace of digestion in the gut gives a more reliable flow of energy to the brain, likely optimizing the organ’s long-term health and performance.
Lead an active lifestyle and exercise regularly
“Physical exercise may be one of the best ways to maintain cognitive function as you age,” Regular exercise such as brisk walking, swimming, aerobics and yoga in mid-life helps forestall and prevent memory problems that often come with aging. In later years, regular exercise and physical activity can actually improve the brain function of people with mild cognitive impairment.  Seems odd that it has anything to do with brainpower, but excess body fat has been shown to up the risk for memory loss in women.
Meditation
Daily meditation is perhaps the single greatest thing you can do for your mind/body health. Meditation not only relaxes you, it gives your brain a workout. By creating a different mental state, you engage your brain in new and interesting ways while increasing your brain fitness.
Keep Social
Staying socially active has been shown to keep your brain sharp well into old age. Talking and interacting with others keeps your brain active, sharpens thinking and can improve your.
Working
A lot of people look forward to giving up work as we get older, however, working even in a part time job can keep the mind active. If you are retired you can do volunteer work to keep you active.