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- hiPpymIck, on 10/11/2007, -1/+36to save clicking/looking at ads etc
1. Brain food: Don’t let yourself run on empty. A balanced diet will help keep your mind running strong all day long. Make sure to include plenty of fruits and leafy green vegetables. They are loaded with essential antioxidants and nutrients to boost your brain power. Some of the best foods for thought include: blueberries, blackberries, fish and fish oils, eggs, spinach, strawberries and almonds.
2. Exercise: Get your body moving and your memory will soon follow. Exercise improves the heart’s blood flow. This, in turn, helps the brain function better and stay sharper. Studies have also found that cardiovascular exercises done over a long period of time help reduce the amount of brain tissue you lose as you age.
3. Brain Games: Unscramble your memory with Scrabble. Intellectually stimulating activities and games such as Scrabble, crossword puzzles and trivia games are great for boosting your memory. Have fun and challenge your brain with these fun memory games.
4. Pick Up a Book: The key to keeping your memory sharp is to continue to challenge it. Try to always have a book in hand. After you’re done reading a chapter or two, question and review the material you’ve read. Try to imagine what you’re reading. Discuss what you’ve read, and talk about it with friends or join a book club.
5. Take a Sip Down Memory Lane: Coffee is good for more than just getting you out of bed in the morning. Researches have found the stimulant affect of caffeine can help boost memory. Studies have also found that key enzymes found in green and black teas help improve memory functions.
6. Cultivate interest: We tend to remember the things that we enjoy. Find ways to make a boring subject fun by associating it to something you already know. If you have to remember a list, try to make a fun sentence out of the first letters of each item or try categorizing things into a group. You can also use your imagination and create a fun story behind a subject to help make it easier to remember.
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7. Catch some those Zzzz’s: Sleep plays a critical role in your physiological function and is vital for your intellectual development. Memory failure is a common occurrence for many sleep-deprived individuals. A study conducted at the University of Luebeck found that creativity and problem solving appear to be directly linked to adequate sleep.
8. Repeat After Me: When learning new information, the more you repeat it, the more likely you will be able to recall that information. Practice is the key to lasting memory. Practice is the key to lasting memory. Practice is the key to lasting memory.
9. Give It a Beat: Music not only helps trigger memories of past events, but also stimulates learning skills. Music has also been shown to help retain information and provide multiple modes of information retrieval.
10. Pick Your Own Brain and Share it with Others: Don’t keep your knowledge stored up. Teaching others is another great way to boost memory skills. You should also become your own teacher. Don’t be afraid of taking on new challenges. You might not be in school anymore but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t test yourself. After you learn something, it’s important to put the new information to use. - Ngai, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18I've heard that marijuana can cure Alzheimer's...
but of course , I'm a pot head what do I know.. - davidrools, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Here's how I keep my memory strong:
1. Use good heat spreaders
2. Keep case well ventilated and dust free
3. Don't overclock or overvolt it too much beyond what it was designed to handle
am I forgetting anything? ;) - Flummoxer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Is Alzheimer's even preventable though? I thought there might be a genetic predisposition to it.
- 11arrows, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Good article. Keeping your memory strong is very important as you age. I've seen Alzheimer's first hand and you want to do whatever you can to ensure you never get this.
- oknothing, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Very wrong, sorry.
Studies show marijuana may block Alzheimer's.
http://www.physorg.com/news80408190.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4286435.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050224111638.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148518,00.html
http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20050223/marijuana-ingredient-may-help-alzheimers
and Oregon OK's medical marijuana for Alzheimer's: http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/143/oregonokay.shtml
PS: ***** you. I hate dumb liars. - bIuebonics, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6ugh... scrabble, crossword puzzles, and trivia: my three least favorite games. i get more enjoyment out of answering logic questions than playing these pointless games. hand me a chess board or some kind of puzzle solving video game any day...
- Jayheck, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6I am a member of a local duplicate bridge club, have been for years. Our average member age is around 70. We lose members due to heart attack, cancer, etc. - but very, very few to Alzheimer's. Since duplicate bridge requires remembering the play of all 52 cards in a deck, every hand, it is a strenuous brain exercise. Perhaps that's why so few of our members develop Alzheimer's.
- diggB, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Wow, these are all great tips! Now, if only I could remember them ...
- TiMMY8765, on 10/11/2007, -3/+611. Don't be stoned all the time
I know this will piss off half of the digg population but it had to be said - bIuebonics, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3not to mention the interesting result of neurogenesis from excessive amounts of HU210... :P
- TheSeraph, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3And here I thought this was about microchip memory. Aww shucks.
- bIuebonics, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2addition to number 3: over-voltage is good when you want higher clock speeds and lower timings, but only in short bursts. just because it's stable now does not mean you're not overdoing it. keeping it over-volted for too long can degrade the ram.
- orbit1979, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3What was the article about again?
- AkatsukiNoTobi, on 10/11/2007, -5/+7Isn't it supposed to be 10 Memory Hacks?
- Cretius0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Aww, I don't want to lose my photographic memory... :(
I really need to show this to my good friends who profess to be intelligent, lets see them not use contacts on a cell phone, they still wonder how I can do that.
Great Site BTW - Echarter, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Thank you for posting this.
- westway2world, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Am I the only one who for some reason thought the article was about RAM?
- MrSidnet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Lovin' them 2 page articles (with 10 items)
- ohnoitschris, on 11/07/2007, -1/+2Hahaha, I thought so at first too.
- tmpoirier, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1better bookmark this. don't want to forget where i found it.
- caLIM2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Yes Chess is awesome.
- JoeHeavyFlow, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What?
- ThatsPopetastic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Does the board game Go count? Man, I played that game so much, that at one point I started having dreams about go.
- Meowbiusfox, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Okay,once more,What are we talking about here?
- Jorlwind, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Do you guys suppose Tetris counts as a "brain game"?
- CoolWind, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3pot not only hurts your memory, it also hurts your intellect, but if it makes your life more enjoyable go for it. why should anyone care if you use it?
- toros, on 10/11/2007, -2/+211. stay off digg.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Meh, i sorta agree. I threw some a logic puzzle on my google homepage, new one each day, so far so good. I have hangman along with this, but the words are so dumb, they're usually names of obscure authors. The other hangman I found was good, but the words repeat.
- lemon67, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3i smoke a lot of dope
- br549, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Obviously.
- sunimoto, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Wow! That's a lot of ads on a page! And they also managed to split this short list into to pages. Probably a work of a marketing genius.
Most of the items are very obvious and there are almost no surprises... A good topic to bring up, though. So, I'm digging it for the topic, but the content and presentation are quite weak... - Zergo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+6I often feel like I have Alzheimer's - and I'm only 21!
- LoganVH, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Can I actually get an article that tells me how to GET a strong memory first?
- Rayor, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4Great! Now if only I could remember to implement these strategies.
- bIuebonics, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2@jun2san
did you not read step number 1? o_O supplements aren't needed if you're actually, you know, eating properly. - silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1i would imagine it would help. anything mentally challenging.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1memory haha why would i need memory when i have google!
google google muwhahahha goo what was it called again? - SinisterStairs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0No of course, only the games explicitly listed in the article will help your memory; anything not listed will rot your brain. oO
- westway2world, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Stupider isn't a word...
"More stupid" is the correct usage silly goose. - caramelMangoMan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+01. Brain food: Don’t let yourself run on empty. A balanced diet will help keep your mind running strong all day long. Make sure to include plenty of fruits and leafy green vegetables. They are loaded with essential antioxidants and nutrients to boost your brain power. Some of the best foods for thought include: blueberries, blackberries, fish and fish oils, eggs, spinach, strawberries and almonds.
on that note
I work at a company called Gold Group, and we are currently running a campaign for our client Lipton, meant to call attention to the healthy benefits of tea! The site for the campaign is located at fightindooritis.com, it features some fun videos and messages you can send to friends, as well as a rebate for up to $15 savings on Lipton teas! We hope you find the site interesting and are able to share it with your friends and readers. - JoeCool1986, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Though pot may prevent the actual disease of Alzheimer's, hasn't it been proven to hurt your memory overall in the long term?
- Superkevbo, on 12/05/2007, -0/+0It all comes down to the simple rule, "Use it or Lose it". Just like anything, be it brain, muscle mass, etc etc. http://www.condomman.com
- JoeCool1986, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2(accidental duplicate)
- silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1come back to digg when you're about 30
- jun2san, on 10/11/2007, -4/+311: Take Omega-3 Fatty Acid supplements.
- DocHoliday22, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0The part where it mentions music, it's not any type of music guys, more specifically Baroque music is suppose to help with studying and focusing. I've never tried it but there is evidence to suggest it works.
- redxii, on 11/07/2007, -3/+2Yes.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1http://duggmirror.com/
- betacmag4u, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1I thought the recent studies show dietary copper caused Alzheimer's.
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