03/25/2010 - 10:42am

National Nutrition Month fueling a healthy brain

March is a busy month full of health awareness campaigns, but we couldn’t let National Nutrition Month go by without saying a few words about the importance of our diet on our brains. From our head to our feet, we are what we eat, so making healthy choices in our diet means better brains as well as bodies.
Ten Best Foods for a Healthy Brain:

03/11/2010 - 4:07am

National Sleep Awareness Week: Ten Facts about Sleep and Brain Functioning

40 percent Americans sleep less than seven hours a night which is not enough. National Sleep Awareness Week (March 8th-12th) is a good time to remind ourselves why sleep is so important for our cognitive functioning. Here are ten facts about why that nap and extra hours of sleep are so important:

1.    Deep sleep is related to increased production of proteins. Since proteins are the building blocks of your body and they’re also responsible for repairing damaged cells, sleep is clearly a crucial component of your brain fitness.

02/23/2010 - 4:49am

Thank Your Brain on Memory Day and Every Day

Our brains are remarkable. Consider all the things they allow us to do: learn a language, remember our multiplication tables, learn to play an instrument, recall names and fond moments of our friends and families among a million other small and large details we need for daily life.

02/10/2010 - 3:33am

Wise Consumer Health Care Month

February is Wise Consumer Health Month. To help people recognize the importance of being more involved in their own health care, the American Institute for Preventative Medicine suggests some tips to support and encourage people in this endeavor below. CogniFit believes that the first step in taking care of ourselves is to take care of our brain fitness so we’ve suggested a number #11 below.

10 Tips for Being a Wise Health Care Consumer