For centuries, many cultures around the globe have valued butter for its life-sustaining properties. A dentist-turned-researcher, Weston A. Price, studied native diets in the 1930s and found that butter was a staple for many vibrantly healthy peoples.¹ The groups he studied particularly valued the deep yellow butter produced by cows feeding on rapidly-growing green grass.

It’s a vestige of our ancient biology – with the sun starting to hang lower in the sky, bringing shorter days, our bodies want to slow down and hibernate a little. And as our metabolism ratchets down, we may also develop moods that are as low as the sun across the horizon.

When you consider the things you are most thankful for, do you put your brain health on the top of the list? Not many of us probably would, but the truth of the matter is that without a healthy brain, all of those other things you might be thankful for don't matter a whole lot. Our bodies are pretty amazing at compensating in the interest of survival.

In the back-to-school hustle and bustle it is all too easy to forget the most important tool your child has for learning: the brain. While it might seem like enough to just get that brain into the classroom, without the proper nutrition, a growing child will have trouble focusing, concentrating, comprehending, and retaining information.

The Eating Habits that Cause Overweight and Prediabetes Can Also Set the Stage for Learning and Behavior Problems