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Book: Think and Eat Yourself Smart: A Neuroscientific Approach to a Sharper Mind and Healthier Life
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  1. Caroline Leaf _ Think and Eat Yourself Smart:

    They travel long distances. And synthetic chemicals are used freely.
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  2. Caroline Leaf _ Think and Eat Yourself Smart:

    How real, then, is the food in our supermarkets? Real food, again, is fresh and nutritious, predominantly local, seasonal, grass fed, as wild as possible, free of synthetic chemicals, whole or minimally processed, and ecologically diverse. We have seen that in our supermarkets, even the fresh produce isn't very fresh. Foods are no longer whole, but processed to extend shelf life.
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  3. Caroline Leaf _ Think and Eat Yourself Smart:

    Likewise, healthier products are often put close to the bottom on the shelves, while processed, sugary foods with bright packaging are put at eye level, socially conditioning us to buy more of them.48
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  4. Caroline Leaf _ Think and Eat Yourself Smart:

    Healthy thoughts can enhance the effects of good nutrition and mitigate the effects of bad nutrition-to a degree. In fact, healthy thoughts lead to better food choices. Eating and thinking are so intertwined that what you are thinking about before, during, and after eating will impact every single one of the 75–100 trillion cells in your body, including the cells of your digestive system. Your state of mind will have a negative or positive influence on your digestive health, and your digestive health will also have a negative or positive influence on your state of mind.
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  5. Caroline Leaf _ Think and Eat Yourself Smart:

    The mind is a key factor throughout this book. Thinking, as you will see, plays a dominant role in eating. Toxic thoughts can negate the positive effects of good nutrition.
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  6. Caroline Leaf _ Think and Eat Yourself Smart:

    Grocery stores, for example, deliberately place candy and chocolate bars by the checkout counter in order to promote "impulse buying.
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  7. Caroline Leaf _ Think and Eat Yourself Smart:

    Instead of taking the wheat germ out of the bread for our convenience, we should ask ourselves why God created wheat like that in the first place.
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  8. Caroline Leaf _ Think and Eat Yourself Smart:

    Perhaps one of the most well-known, and indeed controversial, examples of the global impact of food production is the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement {NAFTA}. NAFTA opened the trade borders between the United States and Mexico, making American corn, subsidized by the US government, cheaper to purchase. Subsequently, many Mexican farmers lost their farms {since they could not compete with the low price of corn grown in the United States}, compelling these individuals to find work elsewhere and contributing to the rise of illegal immigrants in the United States.19 Likewise, labels such as "Fair Trade" or "Whole Trade" on many foods today highlight the fact that what we choose to eat can and does impact the people and communities that produce our foods.
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  9. Caroline Leaf _ Think and Eat Yourself Smart:

    These preservatives and additives have serious side effects.43 For instance, azodicarbonamide, a synthetic chemical used to manufacture rubber and plastic, is used in the United States as the food additive E927 to bleach flour and condition dough in industrial bread production.
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  10. Caroline Leaf _ Think and Eat Yourself Smart:

    Processed, heated, and refined fats, as well as "trans fats" {hydrogenated fats}, are the bad fats commonly found in foods such as margarine, shortening, your average American pizza, and the processed cheese so widely available in grocery stores. These bad fats have been linked to a higher risk of heart disease, macular degeneration, multiple sclerosis, certain cancers, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, infertility and endometriosis, and depression.3 {For more on fats, see chapter 16.}
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  11. Caroline Leaf _ Think and Eat Yourself Smart:

    Excessive consumption of the high amounts of sodium in processed, salty foods can lead to high blood pressure and heart disease, stroke, kidney damage, cancer, weight gain, osteoporosis, and overeating-this list is equally long and alarming.2
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  12. Caroline Leaf _ Think and Eat Yourself Smart:

    Although this major incident shows the dangers of feeding animals to other animals, it is often still considered an economically viable practice for industrial operations. Many feedlots in the United States, for instance, feed their cows chicken meat, while some companies even consider it "sustainable" to feed chicken to farmed fish.21
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