For many people a healthy lifestyle means a longer life without any diseases, a fitter body, a slimmer silhouette and a skin with no imperfections. Yet, there is another benefit of a healthy lifestyle: an increased intellectual capacity.
Constant physical movement and a balanced diet can make wonders for your brain. This is mainly because the amount of movement your make each and every day and the foods you ingest have a great importance on the way in which your brain functions. Let’s take each of these two factors separately and see how they can affect the intellectual capacity of a human being.
First, the physical movement is highly effective in boosting one’s intelligence as it increases the amount of oxygen which reaches the brain. In presence of oxygen, the brain works more effectively, thus having better results when having to deal with stress and fatigue. Also, exercises are highly effective in distressing the brain and relaxing it. This means that your brain will be able to focus on more important things once it has been freed from all the stress and problems. This will further enhance its ability of acquiring information fast and easy and will make it work at a more rapid speed, when needed. Yet, in order to benefit from these effects of the physical exercises, they will have to be done daily, at least 20 or 30 minutes.
The diet is also highly important, as fatty foods, foods containing preservatives and chemical colorants and foods containing high amounts of sugar can be very damaging for the brain. They stop the further development of the brain and can also lead to a regression in the intellectual capacities. This means that your brain will not function as well as it used to and instead of progressing and acquiring new information, it will lose precious notions and useful information.
In order to avoid such things, it is absolutely necessary to alternate a healthy diet with physical movement. Not only will you obtain a healthy and attractive body, which will be envied by all those who see you, but you will also preserve your brain in good function and increase your IQ significantly.
There have been numerous debates about the different types of activities which are able of increasing the IQ. Many of them were thought to be useless, while others were labeled as highly efficient. About mind games, people have always had different opinions: their fans say that these games have made them see things much clearer and have offered them a simple and pleasant way of increasing their IQ, while those disliking these activities strongly affirm that there is no connection between mind games and improving the intelligence.
However, it seems like mind games fans are right: mind games do affect the brain in a positive way. In fact, everything that puts your brain to work steadily and gives it obstacles which it has to overcome has a positive influence upon the human brain. This is mainly because the more you put your brain to work, the more its capacity will increase.
Thus, new challenges, such as finding different strategies to defeat your enemy in a chess game or planning your moves in advance in a computer strategy game, have the role of expanding your intelligence and increasing your IQ.
The most efficient mind games which can increase your intellectual abilities are Sudoku, crosswords and other similar word games, chess, computer strategy games, riddles and puzzles. These games are efficient because they force you to think differently and find more than one solution to a problem. This kind of approach will force your brain into working continuously, thus increasing its power of focus and its capacity of learning.
In order to make this type of brain training efficient, it is highly important that you do not cheat, but rather try out until you reach the correct result. Thus, even though the higher levels may be more difficult, you should try and solve them without using any hints. Only this way will your brain be able to work more, and thus increase its intelligence. Perseverance is the key of learning, but is also the key to an extended intellectual capacity, so do your best and remain focus even when things are not going well, because this is the time when your brain leans new things.
There is very good news for people who love chocolate: this delicious dessert does more than lighten up your day. The so much loved chocolate is well known for its positive effects upon the human brain, thus now you have twice more reasons to eat as much chocolate as your heart (and brain) desires!
Chocolate contains a large amount of antioxidants, which make your brain function better. Also, in addition to boosting your intellectual capacity, antioxidants also help your body remain young and fresh for a larger period of time: thus double effect – youth for your mind and body.
In addition to that, chocolate is a source of caffeine, thus maintain your brain in a state of alertness for a longer period. Thus you will be able to stay focused for a more time, fact which will allow you to learn more things in a shorter period of time. Also, you will be able to solve problems which at a first view may seem difficult much faster than if you tried to solve them before eating a piece of chocolate.
Chocolate is called the ingredient which brings happiness because it increases the serotonin form your body. Thus, you will forget about your problems and worries or at least will see them in a more positive way. It is no wonder that after eating a piece of chocolate life seems simpler and much more fun.
If you choose to eat dark chocolate, the benefits your brain will have are even greater, as dark chocolate is a valuable source of fibers. Fibers, as you probably know are essential in having a good and healthy cardiovascular system. If the cardiovascular system works properly, then the brain will also work well.
So, a healthy brain, which functions properly, may start with a piece of chocolate. Also, an increased IQ and improved intellectual capacity can begin with the same piece of chocolate. This means that if you have until now avoided this delicious ingredient or you have taken it out because you are on a diet, you should put it back on your list of favorite foods, as its benefits are far more important than the few extra calories it brings.
Breathing is a vital process, as no living creature can survive without air. Humans need air too and the amount of oxygen they get influences the state in which the organism is. If the amount and quantity of air that reaches the lungs, and from there inside each and every organ and tissue, is low, than the body will not function at its normal rate. The overall state is bad and the individual starts having health problems. In contrast, if the body gets enough oxygen to preform is daily activities, it will function properly all day long.
Believe it or not, breathing has great importance when it comes to the way in which the brain works. In order to work properly, the brain needs oxygen, just like all the other organs. When it does not get enough, the brain fails to do its activities well, thus stopping any further evolution of one’s intelligence. So, if the breathing process is not done correctly, there is no chance of ever increasing the IQ.
Few people know that there is a correct way in which they should breath, and this means standing with your back straight and eliminate as much as possible the obstacles which may prevent the air flow from getting inside the body. Also, it is highly important that both the inhalation and exhalation are deep. Only this way will the necessary quantity of oxygen enter the body and get inside the lungs, while the carbon dioxide will be efficiently exhaled. Superficial breathing, as well as breathing an air of low quality will not ensure the amount quantity of air, thus leading to bad activity of the body and the impossibility of acquiring new information. A stop in the evolution of the brain is produced and only when the brain will receive enough oxygen will it be able to start functioning properly again.
There are multiple factors which can influence breathing, such as stress, body posture, pollution and smoking. These factors should be, as much as possible, neutralized and a proper breathing should be exercised before starting to train the brain. Only this way will a program of increasing the IQ will be efficient and give positive results in a short period of time.
The human body is a complex machine and each of its parts plays a very important part in its good function. Thus, it is quite hard to imagine how a human would have dealt without one or the other parts of its body. However, a capital importance in the body’s good function has its brain. Even the most banal activities, such as walking or seeing are controlled by it. Due to its extreme importance, it is necessary to maintain the brain in good shape and make sure that nothing will prevent it from working normally.
Most people even try to accelerate the speed with which their brain accumulates information and makes connections. Even though increasing your intelligence is not an easy process, but rather requires long time attention and a very well thought schedule, it does not mean that ordinary people are not able to improve their intelligence.
In fact, the brain will start working much better once all those factors which influence it in a negative manner are eliminated.
Among the factors which negatively affect the brain we can enumerate the lack of proper sleep, stress, smoking and drinking. These last two factors are by far the most damaging to the human body in general, and to the brain especially. Smoking decreases the amount of oxygen from inside your body, thus also diminishing the amount of oxygen which goes to the brain. Low oxygen results in improper function of the brain, thus less intellectual capacity. Even though on short run, people may notice a certain improvement in their intellectual abilities while smoking, on the long run, the effects of smoking are quite damaging. A non-smoker has more chances to increase their IQ easy and fast than a person who ingests daily tobacco smoke.
On the other hand, drinking has serious effects on the structure of the nervous cells by destructing their connections. This damage can be temporary or permanent, depending on the quantity of alcohol ingested and the period of time in which one has drank on a regular basis. When one stops drinking and smoking, the brain starts to recover gradually and thus starts working better, allowing more information
to be assimilated in a shorter period of time.
Thus, if you want to improve your mental abilities and increase your IQ significantly, you should start by giving up your negative habits of drinking and smoking. You will not also think more and better, but you will increase the quality of your life.
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