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Few people associate diet with the risk of becoming injured. After all, eating vegetables doesn’t give you a suit of armor that protects you against external threats, like car accidents, falls, or slips. The effects of food operate on the inside. 

It turns out, though, that the effects of diet on your body are more profound than you might think. And, indeed, they can prevent serious injury from occurring. 

For instance, in most car accidents, people get compensation through personal injury protection (PIP). Accidents jar their bones, damage their muscles, and lead to lasting injuries. 

But what if what you ate made a difference to the likelihood of experiencing a severe, lasting injury? It sounds like a pie-in-the-sky idea, but it has legs. 

When you eat a lot of junk, animal foods, and sugar, it leads to low-level, systemic inflammation in the body. The immune system goes into overdrive, fighting off what it sees as perceived threats and, over time, it damages tissues.

As we grow older, we pile up experiences and memories to hold onto and relive them in our old age. Unfortunately, the older we get, the less we tend to remember - and yet, that should be the case. With an estimated 50 million people living with dementia and other brain-related issues, it is important to learn how to keep your brain healthy so as to reduce the risk of dementia and enjoy a happy life in the future. Here are four natural ways to boost your brainpower.

Regular physical activity has been proven to be of immense benefits to the brain - from childhood all the way to adulthood. In children, regular physical activity has been shown to promote excellent cognitive development. In adults, it has been proven to improve thinking ability and memory, especially for adults with mild cognitive impairments. Activities such as aerobic exercises can increase brain volume while boosting short-term memory. Ten minutes of exercise each day is enough to boost areas of the brain responsible for problem-solving and decision-making. You can also opt for more gentle forms of exercise like yoga for 25 minutes a day.

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The kind of food you eat plays a crucial role in keeping your brain healthy. Brain food comes in several varieties that range from fish to fruits. Let’s take a look at some examples.

• Fatty fish: These include sardines, trout, and salmon. Fatty fishes are rich in omega 3 fatty acids.

• Coffee: This ‘morning delight’ contains antioxidants and caffeine that can help the brain but coffee should also be used in moderation. 

• Dark chocolate: This is packed with essential compounds that boost the brain. It also contains antioxidants and caffeine.

Other essential brain food examples include oranges, nuts, turmeric, green tea, eggs, pumpkin seeds, and broccoli.

Research has proven that learning a new language is one sure way to give your mind the training it needs by booting its cognitive capabilities. In infants, especially, learning a new or foreign language has been associated with cognitive development. While in adults, it has been proven to result in sharpened minds as learning new languages helps to enhance brain plasticity. This, in effect, boosts its ability to code information it receives. Even further research has shown that the ability to learn and speak more than one language helps to slow down the decline in cognition that comes with ageing.

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Not everybody can be a Mozart. However, studies have shown that learning to play a musical instrument comes with so many benefits for the brain. When children, in particular, are exposed to musical instruments at a very young age, it comes with several benefits. Children that learn to play musical instruments tend to ward off a decline in cognition associated with old age. But adults are not left out, though. Learning a musical instrument also helps to improve attention while expanding the brain’s capacity to store information for future reference. 

Good memory care today is vital for future memory health tomorrow. Engaging in activities that help to boost the power of the brain also helps to ward off cognitive decline that comes with age, and leaves us with our good memories to treasure for a long time.

Influencer marketing nowadays is a big thing, but what is influencer marketing? It is another way of advertising that is in social media with the help of known people, celebrities, and involves product seedings for them to market and influence their followers, it differs from influencers to another. It's basically spreading the brand's word into their community.

Effective influencers can bring huge sales in a brand because most of them reach the targeted audiences and improves brand awareness. They drive sales into your products especially when content gets viral. Social media now is very powerful, most of the people get an idea of what to buy online, some of them when their favorite influencers post a new product they also wanna try that product because of the person who endorses it. If brands what a large exposure, social media is the solution, it has many benefits to business owners to reach out to more people and customers an influencer marketing is involved.

In my previous post, we learned about the pouches and it's benefits as well as other stuff like how easy to use it. Before we jump on its, different flavors let's talk about why people smoke and why it's hard for the smokers to quit because these pouches can help them quit little by little, these can be substitutes.

The desire to smoke was all the more unequivocally connected with outrage, uneasiness, and sharpness in men than in ladies. Sentiments of trouble or weariness were connected with the inclination to smoke in men as it were. At the point when the men smoked they felt less irate and it diminished their sentiments of misery. Most smokers began when they were teenagers. The individuals who have companions or potentially guardians who smoke are bound to begin smoking than the individuals who don't, others just wanted to try what it's like to smoke.

It can be a habit for most and eventually, others can be addicted to smoking, they say it's not easy to quit when you started smoking. There are many ways how to quit smoking but one that is easy for smokers is by switching to pouches of white pre-packed, tobacco-free nicotine. It comes in different tastes to choose from.

The COVID-19 Pandemic intensifies the Philippine’s battle against Double Burden of Malnutrition. Double Burden of Malnutrition is defined by World Health Organization (WHO) as “the coexistence of undernutrition along with overweight and obesity, or diet-related non communicable diseases, within individuals, households and populations, and across the life course.” 

The limited distribution and access to food supplies aggravate the plight of poor and low income Filipino households to sustain each person’s required nutrients through healthy meals. On the other hand, home confinement due to the mandated community quarantine may cause more people to not only restrict their physical activities but also to overeat and/or consume more food with empty calories as part of coping with stress and/or boredom. 

Given the importance of maintaining healthy diets to sustain our health and immunity against viruses and bacteria, we should turn to the practice of Pinggang Pinoy® as a viable safeguard to protect our family from diseases.