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In my previous article "Mental Disorders. What Is The Cause And What Can I Do About It? Part I" on the frontal lobe we saw some amazing and eye opening lifestyle choices that threaten our ability to make good personal judgments.
Scientific studies show the frontal lobe is the seat of, spirituality, morality and the will.
“And they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads.” Revelation 22:4
Frontal lobe size of humans vs. animals
- Cats – 3.5%
Dogs – 7%
Chimpanzees – 17%
Humans – 33%
To maximize the efficiency of our frontal lobes we must focus on both the positive things we should be doing and the negative things we should be avoiding. By better understanding the importance of the frontal lobe and how it works we can better appreciate how the healthful factors can aid us in expanding brain capacities. Drugs that damage our frontal lobes: (see previous article “Mental Disorders. What Is The Cause? What Can I Do About It?” Part I) Illicit drugs, certain prescription drugs: alcohol, caffeine, nicotine. Caffeine impairs the brain several ways.
In a study done by Scandinavian researchers on 143,000 men and women found a significant increase in depression in women who were heavy coffee users (but not in men who used similar amounts of coffee).
"For several years I was stuck using anti-depressants due to my bout with depression. I tried and tried to get off those darn pills, but to no avail. That was until someone told me that caffeine was directly linked to depression. As soon as I gave up the caffeine, I was off those darn anti-depressants and I’ve never looked back. I continued to learn more and as I did and adjusted my lifestyle, even the SAD (seasonal affective disorder) that mildly affected my moods in the Northwest winters I live in, went completely away."
One interesting note: Caffeine and Gossip – “When these tea and coffee users meet together for social entertainment, the effects of their pernicious habit are manifest. All partake freely of their favorite beverages, and as the stimulating influence is felt, their tongues are loosened, and they begin the wicked work of talking against others. Their words are not few or well chosen.”
One last light to shed on diet and the damaging effects on the frontal lobe.
Large amounts of sugar in the diet have been demonstrated to impair frontal lobe functions in school age children. It is suggested and necessary for those suffering from mental disorders such as ADD/ADHD, depression, anxiety…should discontinue all white sugars in their diet. Children have shown amazing changes when this was done for them. It’s never pleasant to take candy from a baby, but it’s not any more fun watching these precious children suffer under the effects of the mind altering drugs.
You might be asking, if carbohydrates are our brains fuel then why is this so?
Our bodies were designed to function on whole foods, foods with everything intact. This includes fiber. Apples, oranges, bananas, mangos…all have sugar, but they also have fiber. One of the roles of fiber is to slow down the bodies processing of the sugars. Without the fiber, the sugars go straight to the blood stream and play havoc on the body, including but not limited to the brain.
Amazing fact: One 20oz bottle of soda pop includes 1 Cup of pure sugar. Did you catch that? Go get one of those bottles out of the fridge and fill an 8 oz cup full of white sugar. Now put those next to each other. Would you serve your child a cup of sugar with his dinner or anytime purposefully?
It’s not necessary to drink one drop of alcohol in order to be an alcoholic. Processed and refined sugar turns to alcohol in the body. If you have ever been to an AA meeting, just remember what was on every table. Jars and bowls full of candy.
Hurray and applause for all the schools in the country that are taking the candy and soda pop machines out of the schools! After the Columbine tragedy, all of the Denver schools removed the candy and soda machines next Los Angeles and not too long thereafter followed Dallas/Ft Worth. They began to recognise the legal ramifications that would result. It's too bad when it takes tragedy to wake us up.
FACT: From 1990-1995 The number of people diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the U.S. rose from 900,000 to more than 2 million. Imagine what that is now in 2007.
What are we going to do about this? Are you as outraged as I am? These are our kids!
A liberal supply of fruits, vegetables, and grains provides the best nourishment for the frontal lobe.
My daughter and I used to be the queens of junk food junkies. Now that we have made a determined effort to change our diet to include the fruits, vegetables and grains, we can hardly stand the foods we used to love. Just the other day, someone bought pizza and invited us. Of course we couldn’t refuse, our brains told us (yeah, bring it on!) but our stomachs and system said, "yuk"! I can honestly tell you, I am functioning better (much better) mentally, physically and spiritually now at 45 years young than I did at 35.
Daniel 1:8"But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the kings meat, nor with the wine which he drank...Daniel 1:20 And in all matters of wisdom [and] understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians [and] astrologers that [were] in all his realm.
In my next article on mental disorders, I will expose some areas of lifestyle that are stealing your children’s futures.
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