Forgetting
understanding. Hence, it becomes
imperative that you begin to
exercise regularly, and get the heart
rate pumping. Your recall of the
Five steps to build Memory
key points at lectures will improve,
is the new
your ability to think clearly during
writing up assignments and essays
1.
Do at least an
hour workout once
will improve, and ultimately
a week, that gets
information to get that fi rst class
the heart beating.
in an examination will come much
easier.
normal.
Furthermore, we can do something
about our diets. Researchers
in the States, like Jim Joseph, a
neuroscientist with the Department
2.
As examinations
approach,
Why we forget things, and how we may be able to control it.
for Agriculture have begun to
work out more
correlate memory with what we eat.
frequently, but in
He has published papers that show
shorter bursts.
how blueberries, almonds, walnuts,
and keeping off fatty foods helps
neurons to reproduce. A study
of over 6500 people showed that
people who were overweight were
2.3 times as likely to suffer from
3.
Go running when
you have mental
weaker memory recall. Body fat
blocks. By getting
disrupts our internal chemistry and
the blood pumping
builds up excessive glucose. Of
you’ll increase the
course this doesn’t draw a straight
blood fl ow to the
line between your waistline and brain, which will give
your memory, but does suggest that you the sensation of
there maybe a connection.
clarity.
None of what I’ve written about
will help you when you’re taking
4.
Eat nuts – literally.
Get in the habit of
that examination and when you
having a bowl of
can’t recall a basic formula or
almonds next to
theory that you may have used just
you as you study.
the night before. It does you little
good to be reminded at those times
that it all may be just too much
glucose and too few blueberries.
Still, fi guring out how memory
works, and why we loose it can
5.
During periods of
intensive revision,
help us better understand exactly
keep away from
how to build and control it better.
fatty foods like
When you can make some of the
pizzas and kebabs.
fi xes yourself, it is even better
news. If you ever needed another
excuse to visit the treadmill or cut
out that pizza, then the memory
scientists are providing one – even
if you have to write it down. .
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