Brain Food: Your Mental Diet

As you can see, your brain has a built-in “negativity bias” (Vaish, Grossman, and Woodward 2008) that primes you for avoidance. This bias makes you suffer in a variety of ways. For starters, it generates an unpleasant background of anxiety, which for some people can be quite intense; anxiety also makes it harder to bring attention inward for self-a

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Carotenoids—the yellow, orange, and red pigments abundant in carrots, sweet potatoes, rhubarb, and particularly in dark leafy greens like kale and spinach—have been identified as powerful brain boosters (you can’t see them in dark leafy greens because they’re disguised by the green pigment of chlorophyll—but they’re there). Among these, lutein and

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