Healthy Baked White Potato Recipe

Here is a simple recipe that resurrects the maligned baked white potato back into the health food category, and gives you a healthy dose of brain food to boot.

This is also a perfect recipe if you are one of the millions that are cooking for just one person.

This is based on the idea of a dipping oil that many use for french bread or toast.

The main ingredient – one baked white potato

The Dip:

1 clove garlic, minced
1 sm wedge of onion, finely chopped
(hint: to develop the phyto-nutrients in both onion and garlic, mince and let stand for 10 minutes.)
2 T. chopped cilantro
2 T. chopped parsley
1/2 t. curry powder
extra turmeric
pinch of salt
2T of either Udo’s Oil, flax-seed oil, or extra-virgin olive oil.

(Hint: White potatoes seem banned to dieters because they are considered a high glycemic index food. Combining a baked white potato with healthy oil slows the digestive process, lowering the glycemic index rating.)

Mix all ingredients in a bowl, cut baked potato in half, dip into the spiced oil, and enjoy your new finger food. Not into finger food? Okay, you can cut up your potato and add to dip and mix well.

Broccoli and Carrots

Want a wonderfully nutritious afternoon snack? Very lightly steam broccoli and/or whole carrots. I find 5 minutes on broccoli, 8 minutes for carrots (depending on thickness of carrots) is perfect. Do not cook till mushy!

Dip the broccoli and carrots into the same dipping oil described above. Powerful brain food snack!

This is also an easy way to preserve the nutritional value of the broccoli and carrots, and yet make it easier to chew for anyone, including seniors, who have problems chewing hard veggies.

If you have been told to cut your fat intake, please read this article on the difference between healthy fats and bad fats.

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Curry Powder

Where is Curry Powder on the brain-healthy spice chart?

If you looked through the list of brain healthy spices, and did not see Curry Powder mentioned, that is because it is a wonderfully healthful combination of multiple brain-healthy spices.

Curry powder blends differ, but all contain turmeric, which has high brain nutrition benefits. Most curries will also contain a mixture of cumin, cardomom seed, coriander seed, cinnamon, fenegreek seed, ginger, garlic, mustard seed, and more, depending on who makes it, and the region it comes from.

Turmeric is the star in many new scientific research studies and remember, it is the main ingredient in Curry Powder. And the main ingredient in Turmeric is a substance called curcumin (a curcuminoid), from which turmeric gets its yellow color.

What is making Turmeric in Curry Powder the New Wonder Herb?

A partial list of benefits from curcumin, the main component of Turmeric:
• powerful antioxidant – 5 to 8 times stronger than vitamin E, 3 times more powerful than grape seed or pine bark extract
• protects against liver diseases
• reduces cholesterol
• dissolves blood clots
• helps stop external and internal bleeding
• relieves painful menstruation
• promote sleep
• helps prevent aging
• helps prevent heart disease
• stimulates gallbladder activity, and circulatory systems
• reduces the symptoms of colitis and Crohn’s disease
• helps diffuse illnesses caused by toxins from parasites and bacteria
• Recent studies have concluded that curcumin helps stop tumor growth at all stages of cancer

Turmeric is easily added to your diet. You can buy it plain, or combined in Curry Powder. Remember, we are talking using these spices as food, and as such, consider purchasing organic for best strength and purity.

I will be sharing my personal recipes and tips for adding lot’s of Turmeric and Curry Powder to your daily brain-health recipes.

Here is an easy way to get organic spices in bulk, insuring both quality product and great savings. Get organic Curry Powder here. Order organic Turmeric Powder.

Shopping Tip: This is not the only Curry Powder offered. If you do an on-site search for Curry Powder, you will find a comprehensive list, all including specific ingredients. If you are not sure what you like, the link above is a great starting choice.

Health Tip: Because Curry Powder combines a wide variety of brain healthy spices, you get built in synergistic health benefits from one spice bottle. I personally use curry powder almost every day, and always add extra Turmeric.

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Here is the list of spices and herbs to feed your brain:

• allspice
• anise
• basil
• bay leaves
• black pepper
• caraway
• cardamom
• cayenne
• chamomile
• cinnamon
• cloves
• coriander
• cumin
• dill
• fennel
• fenugreek
• garlic
• ginger
• horseradish
• lemongrass
• marjoram
• mustard seed
• oregano
• paprika
• peppermint
• poppy seeds
• rosemary
• saffron
• sage
• savory
• sesame seed
• spearmint
• tarragon
• thyme
• turmeric

Herbs and spices add many benefits to your food without adding a single calorie. Spices turn ordinary brain food into powerhouses of nutrition.

If you do not use many spices, you will have to retrain your taste buds, but believe me, once you do, you will love your new-found flavor additions, and your food will actually be more satisfying.

Dr. Braverman recommends combining at least three spices at every meal. In his book “Younger Thinner You Diet,” he lists exactly which spices feed which brain chemicals. And we are not talking about a pinch of spice here or there. We are talking anywhere from a half teaspoon to a tablespoon of spice.

If you haven’t already ordered his book, you can order it here.

If you can’t rattle off the 50 best foods to optimize brain function, here’s a quick list in alphabetical order.  You might want to copy these, print the list, and put on your refrigerator.

1. Almonds, raw and almond milk, unsweetened
2. Apples
3. Asparagus
4. Avocados
5. Bananas
6. Beans (black, pinto, garbanzo)
7. Bell peppers (all colors)
8. Beets
9. Blackberries
10. Blueberries
11. Broccoli
12. Brussels sprouts
13. Carrots
14. Cheese, low fat
15. Cherries
16. Chicken, skinless
17. Cranberries
18. Eggs
19. Grapefruit
20. Healthy fat – Omega 3- 6- 9 fatty acids; Udo’s Oil
21. Herring
22. Honeydew
23. Kiwi
24. Lemons
25. Lentils
26. Limes
27. Oats
28. Olive oil
29. Olives
30. Oranges
31. Peaches
32. Peas
33. Plums
34. Pomegranates
35. Raspberries
36. Red grapes
37. Soybeans
38. Spinach
39. Strawberries
40. Tea, green, black and oolong
41. Tofu
42. Tomatoes
43. Tuna
44. Turkey, skinless
45. Walnuts
46. Water
47. Whole wheat
48. Wild salmon
49. Yams and sweet potatoes
50. Yogurt, unsweetened

What’s better than a list of 50 brain foods?

The Brain-Food Reference Bible

Knowing how to use them most effectively to improve the 4 main brain chemical levels.

“Younger (Thinner) You Diet: How Understanding Your Brain Chemistry Can Help You Lose Weight, Reverse Aging, and Fight Disease” by Dr. Eric Braverman is my favorite brain nutrition book.

In Younger Thinner You, Dr. Braverman identifies the the four main brain chemicals that need to be optimized and balanced.

He provides questionnaires that help you personally identify which brain chemicals are deficient, and categorizes which specific brain foods help each brain chemical.

With his book you can customize a nutrition program just for you and your specific brain chemistry.  Even better, he includes yummy recipes, and gives substitute foods to fit multiple brain chemical categories.

Order “Younger Thinner You Diet” here for the best price and free shipping.  This is a “must have” reference book if you want to optimize brain function and health.

These top 50 brain foods are relatively inexpensive, and foods that we normally eat.  Next, we will talk about spicing it up – quite literally.

What is brain food?

Brain nutrition is designed to keep you on the cutting edge of brain research, and specifically in the field of nutrition.  How many times have you ever thought of feeding your brain?  That’s the point.

But the latest 20 year research on the brain shows some amazing facts worth checking into.

Anti-aging supplements, face creams and potions have been highly promoted for the past 15 years.  But what if the very first step in turning back the clock started with foods that specifically nourish the brain?  What if there were specific foods that stabilized the four main brain chemicals:  dopamine, acetylcholine, gaba and seratonin?  What if you could simply fill out a questionnaire to figure your brain chemisty?

Doctors and patients are discovering that simple changes to diet are literally changing lives, body shape, skin tone and health in general.  In practical terms, this is the most inexpensive way to turn back the clock, and recapture optimized brain function, which in turn affects the rest of our body.

You will learn how incredibly simple it can be to change your brain and lifestyle patterns when you feed your brain the nutrients that it needs.

Would you look at food differently if you knew that eating a certain way would stop food addictions, satisfy hunger, and re-establish a strong connection to feeling full?

What would you give up to set your brain on it own track to success, without having to ask, what is wrong with my willpower?

Here you will get a compilation of simple recipes using common and inexpensive brain foods, and tons of ideas for designing your own recipes, and lot’s of “brain-healthy” tips.