The Top Five Foods to Increase Your Intelligence

re: The Top Five Foods to Increase Your Intelligence

mary616 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:34:22 GMT

After reading all the foods that are good for you, I would like to know what do you think about low fat tuna fish? Just about everyday, I have one a tuna sandwich for lunch. Since I do not eat any kind of bird, this gives me some meat variety. Thank you. Mary

re: The Top Five Foods to Increase Your Intelligence

Jono Coach — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:08:04 GMT

Dr. Joseph Mercola:

I dropped sugar (all processed sugar and I switched to using small amounts of organic, unpasteurized honey) in 1995 (and restricted my wheat intake - I do eat rye bread, but only one slice a day) and all my allergies disappeared.

No more environmental allergies to dust, pollen (ragweed, grass, dogwood) or dander (cat, dog) or mold/mildew in damp basements.

Jono Porcupine (from the heart of the Great Canadian Shield in the Northern Boreal Forest of northern Ontario)

re: The Top Five Foods to Increase Your Intelligence

jamiesamuelsmom — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:48:42 GMT

I tried the raw egg smoothie idea. I ended up with an egg allergy, every time I eat anything with egg in it. Thanks a lot, Mercola. I get severe abdomenal pain for 3 to 4 hours straight, sometimes with other gastrointestinal symptoms. (Trying to avoid TMI here) And even if you don't become allergic to eggs, you might want to consider the fact that the egg white contains avadin, which will block your absorption of biotin.

re: The Top Five Foods to Increase Your Intelligence

JulejuleLMT — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:17:51 GMT

Stensie4JC, it seems you may be a little biased regarding the white stuff, as in, still in denial about your addiction to it. Refined sugar is poisonous. Doesn't matter if it's organic or "in the raw" or demarera brown. It all does the same things: suppresses your immune system; depletes the body of vitamins and minerals in an attempt to be processed; wreaks havoc on your endocrine system; and not to mention, contributes greatly to the obesity epidemic. Do yourself a favor and get your head out of that Abnormal Psych text and pick up "Sugar Blues" by William Defty. And try this: avoid any kind of refined sugar for one week and observe (like a true scientist that you are) your withdrawal symptoms from a substance that's just as bad, if not worse, than crack. And don't forget, Freud was a coke addict, which certainly contributed creatively to the substance of his research in the field of psychology

re: The Top Five Foods to Increase Your Intelligence

MrPerlishells — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:21:11 GMT

Are all sugars the same and bad? Is there a difference between brown sugar, washed sugar, sugar in the raw. Are sugars in fruit juice bad. What about pure blueberry juice doesn't that contain sugar? Is juicing and eating fruit the same? What about chewing the sugar cane shoots?

I know the more the food is processed the less healthy it is. We've stopped using white sugar and instead use only brown sugar. Is that enough change?

re: The Top Five Foods to Increase Your Intelligence

Stensie4JC — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:24:10 GMT

Yes, sugar was the man on the knoll and caused the formation of the Bermuda Triangle, the downfall of Amelia Earhart, and the Irish Potato Famine. I read the linked article about sugar and I understand why it's not an option to comment there. I majored in Psychology in college, which is a science, which means reading a LOT of research studies. But before they'll even let you look an abstract, they make you recite this mantra: correlation does not equal causation. My dog barks every morning just before sunrise, but that does not mean he has the power to make the sun rise. I agree that sugar is bad for your health and we could all stand to greatly decrease or eliminate our sugar intake. But let's not make sugar the bogey-man. The list is misleading, implying that sugar definitely will cause all the health problems listed. For example, there's no way I'm going to buy that sugar causes alcoholism. We can't let alcoholism hide behind sugar any more than we can let obesity hide behind DNA. At best sugar might be a minor contributing factor to the development of alcoholism. I don't know how that study was conducted, but I doubt they gave the participants a pound of sugar every day and they all became alcoholics. Perhaps alcoholics, with lowered inhibitions and lowered self-control, make poor dietary choices. To be fair I should that was not all Dr. Mercola's work but cited from a book. We need to keep some perspective, ladies and gentlemen.