"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."- Albert Einstein.
Many things have been tried by many to improve memory, few however have been proven to help.
the simple tips below have been proven to help improve memory.
Eat Right.
Research shows that diets high in saturated fat (red meat, butter, cheese, cream, and ice cream) increase your risk of dementia (progressive loss of brain function) and impair concentration and memory.
Omega-3 fatty acids are particularly beneficial for brain health. Fish is a particularly rich source of omega-3 (examples include salmon, tuna, halibut, trout, mackerel, sardines, and herring). Plant sources of omega-3 fatty acids include walnuts, kidney beans, spinach, broccoli, pumpkin seeds, and soybeans.
Green tea contains polyphenols, powerful antioxidants that protect against free radicals that can damage brain cells.
Colourful fruits and vegetables are particularly good antioxidant "superfood" sources.
Get adequate exercise.
In a study done at the University of British Columbia, researchers found that regular aerobic exercise, the kind that gets your heart and your sweat glands pumping, appears to boost the size of the hippocampus, the brain area involved in verbal memory and learning.
Stop Multitasking
Albert Einstein is often given credit for the quote, “I fear the day that technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”
One of the biggest concerns is what multitasking does to the brain. We all multitask to some degree some of the time, but technology keeps pushing the envelope.
Multitasking makes you less productive, diminishing mental performance, makes you a poor judge of your own abilities, increases stress, anxiety, and depression, contributes to premature aging and may qualify as an addiction.
Get a Good Night's Sleep
Over more than a century of research has established the fact that sleep benefits the retention of memory.
Try Mnemonic Devices
Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall.
Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colours, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in. Our memories store all of these very effectively.
Unfortunately, a lot of the information we have to remember in modern life is presented differently – as words printed on a page. While writing is a rich and sophisticated medium for conveying complex arguments, our brains do not easily encode written information, making it difficult to remember.
Mnemonics make this easier.
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