{"id":3784,"date":"2014-04-06T13:58:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T03:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mindtomind.com\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2015-02-13T04:24:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T10:24:35","slug":"brain-fact-4-underweight-people-risk-brain-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/brain-fact-4-underweight-people-risk-brain-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Fact #4: Underweight People Risk Brain Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you Starving Your Brain?<\/h1>\n
\"Tired

Feeling Flat? Exhausted? Lethargic?
Feed Your Brain!<\/p><\/div>\n

Did you know…<\/span><\/h2>\n

In the average human<\/strong>, the brain<\/strong> consumes about 17% of the body\u2019s total energy but accounts for only 3% of bodyweight.<\/p>\n

Dietitians<\/em> suggest you should not go below 1400 calories per day, as this is the minimum amount necessary to meet your daily nutritional requirements<\/strong>. (I am keeping this simple, recognizing there is much more involved in maintaining good health<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Therefore, 17% of 1400 would be 238 calories. That is around the same amount of calories if you were to run 2 miles or swim 900 meters every day.<\/p>\n

But what would happen if you are in the process of removing the excess baggage<\/strong> from your body? Most of the time you are told to cut back on the amount of energy<\/em> (food) you take in, and exercise to burn more energy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you remember, the brain controls<\/strong> all types of things happening around your body that are essential for sustaining good health<\/strong>; like your heart pumping blood<\/strong>, breathing<\/strong>, and making sure your bodily functions<\/em> are doing what they should be doing, and not doing what they should not be doing, like cardiac arrhythmia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It is important that you maintain proper nutrition going to your brain, even when you are burning more calories than you take in. Otherwise, you can suffer many different debilitating symptoms<\/strong>. You can lose memory<\/strong>, experience inability to make decisions<\/strong>, have decreased muscle coordination<\/strong> and longer response time<\/em>, and plenty of any number of problems; because your brain controls<\/em> too many functions to mention. An exacerbated inability to make decisions<\/strong> is a contributing factor<\/em> why\u00a0 anorexics<\/strong> have such a problem breaking free of anorexia<\/strong><\/em>. They have been starving their brain<\/strong> along with starving their body<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Maintaining your brain’s ability to work<\/strong> for you is paramount. Superior information<\/strong><\/a> gives you the edge in life<\/em>. Both go hand in hand<\/em>.<\/p>\n

From the Heart<\/strong>, for your Heart<\/em>!<\/h2>\n

Shannon Panzo, PhD<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n

Great Things Happen Here!<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your brain controls all types of things happening around your body that are essential for sustaining good health; like your heart pumping blood, breathing, and making sure your bodily functions are doing what they should and should NOT be doing, like cardiac arrhythmia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1350,9,13],"tags":[1364,1363,1365,1366,1375,1374,1373,66,1371,1369,1368,333,1372,1367,1200,1370],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-mind-strategy","category-brain-facts","category-chrysalis-brain-mind-think-tank","category-mind-to-mind-articles","tag-cardiacarrhythmia","tag-feedyourbrain","tag-memoryloss","tag-superiorinformation","tag-underweight","tag-anorexia","tag-anorexic","tag-brain","tag-cardiac-arrhythmia","tag-daily-nutritional-requirements","tag-feed-your-brain","tag-making-decisions","tag-memory-loss","tag-starve-your-brain","tag-superior-information","tag-sustain-good-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5244,"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions\/5244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}