We,ve Learned ALot About The Brain: Which Nutrients Are Required To Make Neurotransmitters, Which Nutrient Deficiencies Cause Depression, And Even Which Nutrients Improve Memory And IntelligenceWouldn,t It Make Sense, Then, To Eat 'brain Foods' That Are High In These 'brain Fuel' Nutrients? Fortunately, The Usda Recently Analyzed Several Thousand Foods For Their Nutrient Contents, So We Now Know What These Brain Foods Are And Can Add Them To Our DietThat,s The Practical Side Of This ResearchThe 'cool' Side Is That, In Looking Back Through Human History, We Discover That Major Advances In Civilization Often Occurred After New Brain Foods Came Into The Diet, During The Axial Age, Ancient Greece, The Renaissance, The Elizabethan Era And th Century France, To Name AFewWe Also See That, In The Cases Where The Brain Foods Were Removed From The Diet, The Civilizations Began To Deteriorate Shortly ThereafterWe Can Even Go Back To Paleolithic Times And Explain The Transition From Archaic To Modern Man Using Simply The Concepts Of Brain Fuels And Brain FoodsThese Historical 'case Studies' Underscore The Necessity Of Brain Foods In Human EvolutionNutrients Are The Fundamental Fuel For The Brain, But Delivering Them To The Body Is An ArtIf Culture Is King, Then Cuisine Is QueenNonetheless, It Has Been Mainly Serendipity That Has Been Responsible For These Improved CuisinesMultiple Factors, Including Geography, Technology And Even Politics, Have Time And Again Led Randomly To An Improved Mix Of Brain FuelsWe Judge Civilizations In Many WaysOne Way Is To Look At The Visual Arts And Assess The Technical Expertise And The Artistic Expression Represented ThereLooking Within Civilizations We See Large Changes In One Or Both Of These Features After AMajor Increase In Brain Food Availability, As Well As Major Advances In Philosophy, Literature And Other ArtsThe Study Of Science natural Philosophy Can Trace Its Roots To The Serendipitous Confluence Of All The Brain Fuels In Abundant Supply In Ancient GreeceThe Times And Places Examined Here Include The First Civilizations ancient Egypt, Indus Valley Civilization, Mesoamerica, And Inca Empire, The Panasian Awakening In The th Century Bc a Few Decades Of The Axial Age, The Three Eras With The Most Abundant Brain Fuels ancient Greece, Renaissance Tuscany And th Century France, And Places Where APartial Abundance Of Brain Fuels Resulted In Advancements In Specific Fiel
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