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Mindfull: Over 100 Delicious Recipes for Better Brain Health

By: Carol Greenwood, Daphna Rabinovich, Joanna Gryfe

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Recipe of the Day – Banana Bread with Flaxseed and Wheat Germ

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Recipe of the Day – Kitchen Savvy: Homemade Nut Butter in Minutes

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Recipe of the Day – Breakfast Crostini with Ricotta, Honey and Figs

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Recipe of the Day – Wild Rice Salad

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Recipe of the Day – Coconut Shrimp

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Recipe of the Day – Chili Chocolate Bark with Cherries and Pistachios

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Continue to track your brain health

You keep an eye on your weight and blood pressure. Your brain health is just as important. With Cogniciti’s Online Brain Health Assessment you can easily track your memory, attention, and executive function. We recommend repeating the assessment every 6 months.

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Smart Tracker

Our Smart Tracker helps you keep track of your overall health by monitoring sleep, diet and exercise.
To help you manage your lifestyle choices, we’ve developed the Smart Tracker, a simple yet powerful tool to manage your lifestyle choices over time.

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Feed your brain what it needs – Eat right

Simple diet changes have a powerful effect on brain health. Eating the correct foods can help adults who want to retain cognitive function and brain health as they age. Research shows that a brain-healthy diet is high in fruits, leafy green vegetables, poultry, fish, nuts, whole grains, and low-fat dairy foods.

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Regular exercise and brain health

Science has shown a close link between regular exercise and brain health. The Ontario Brain Institute released a report on exercise and Alzheimer’s based on a review of major research studies.

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Managing Stress with Dr. Mike Evans

Science has shown that better managing the stress in our lives will help sharpen our memories and improve our sleep and overall health. Here are videos from respected healthcare professionals that you can view for free.

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4 Part Video Series on Stress Reduction and Deep Relaxation – Part 1

Using simple and effective techniques, these sessions will introduce you to the tools that can assist in eliminating sleep disorders and reducing stress and anxiety experienced at home and at work.

Alison Cocking, Wellness Manager, UHN introduces Michael Apollo and the objectives for this 4-part video series.

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4 Part Video Series on Stress Reduction and Deep Relaxation – Part 2

This session will include:
An introductory daily practice to elicit the Relaxation Response using a simple Mindfulness breath & body meditation exercise for stress reduction and deep relaxation. You can fast forward to (2:30) in the video if you wish to start the practice now.

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4 Part Video Series on Stress Reduction and Deep Relaxation – Part 3

This session will include: Stress Management — A 3-minutes breathing practice that you can do at anytime to help Let-Go of overanalyzing and associating yourself with thoughts. This tool can be used both before, during and after a stressful or traumatic experience to help diffuse its impact on the mind and body.

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4 Part Video Series on Stress Reduction and Deep Relaxation – Part 4

This session will include:
Experience Deep Conscious Sleep — a practice currently used by Top Fortune 500 companies and the US Military for deep relaxation

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An Evidence-Based Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Mind

On the following pages we have compiled general wellness tips and information that supports brain health, with a special focus on memory. We hope this information will serve as a guide to achieving and maintaining your best brain health at every age and stage of your life.

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What is Dementia?

Dementia is a general term for symptoms related to a decline in memory and thinking. Approximately 60-80% of dementia is attributed to Alzheimer’s disease. Click here to visit Baycrest.org to learn more about dementia.

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Different types of Dementia?

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, but there are many other kinds such as vascular, Lewy Body, Frontotemporal, etc. If you would like to learn more about the different types of Dementia, click here to visit Baycrest.org for additional resources.

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Risk Factors for Dementia

Research shows that there are multiple factors that contribute to Dementia, such as age, genetics, and lifestyle. Click here to visit Baycrest.org for additional resources.

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