GET STARTED

You are already doing the most important thing you can do for a healthy brain -  keeping a garden for your own consumption with a range of vegetables - especially the brassicas, like cabbage, kale etc.

DO NOT use any pesticides or herbicides at all. These chemicals cause inflammation. If you buy fruit and veg, ensure that you wash everything - especially the leafy greens, and flower heads like 

The first three steps in the process of this major change in your habits of a life time is easy - maintaining the change and replacing all the stuff we take for granted is the hard part.

1.  GET RID OF ALL THE TOXINS IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD
Cleaning products, caustic substances, pesticisdes, makeup, alleged 'feminine hygene' products, deodorants,  etc. 

2. ENSURE THAT YOUR FRIDGE IS SPOTLESS - NEVER ALLOW ANY MOULDS OF FUNGUS TO GROW
Mould spores can be highly inflammatory. 

3. REMOVE ANY PRODUCTS FROM YOUR KITCHEN THAT CONTAIN ANY CHEMICAL FOOD ADDITIVES OR ARE IN ANYWAY HARMFUL TO BREAN HEALTH.

DO NOT CONSUME ANY OF THE FOLLOWING FOODS - IF IT TASTES FANTASTIC WITHOUT ANY EFFORT FROM YOU, IT WILL BE LACED WITH BRAIN CELL KILLING POISONOUS SUBSTANCES
Get them out of the house completely. As you detox, you will find yourself craving them. If you are craving a junk fix, drink water. often, when hungry, you are actually thirsty, but the addiction to these substances sends confused signals to your brain. 

• White, Processed Flour: 

white bread, rolls, muffins, sweetened cereal, crackers, pasta. Mum is not an athlete. She spends most of the day sitting down, so does not need this kind of energy. It has almost no nutritional value anyway, and will only make her gain weight.

• Highly Processed Foods: 

Foods with lots of ingredients, including some you can’t identify, and which has a string of numbers listed in the ingredients or words you can't pronounce. Invariably, packaged food will not only contain sugar, but also added flavour because processed food is dead, tasteless and nutritionally worthless. They put the additives in it to make it palatable. 

• Fatty cuts of meat
bacon, brisket, spareribs and deli meats like sausages, salamis etc. These are all packed with off cut fat and preservatives.

• Sugar and sweets: 

biscuits, lollies, cakes, ice cream, sweetened yogurt, sorbet, fruit-flavored yogurt, dried fruit, sweetened processed cereals, soft drinks, sweetened teas, fruit juice, chocolate etc. None. Nada. NO EXCEPTIONS. 

• Sugar Substitutes: 

corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, brown sugar, concentrated fruit juice, dextrose, fructose, honey, sucrose, powered sugar, maple syrup, molasses, and especially no aspartame, neutra-sweet or any chemical substitutes.

• Snacks: 

chips, pretzels, popcorn, energy bars - all of these (generally packaged in plastic wrappers) are laced with taste enhancers.

• Hydrogenated oils and foods fried in them

corn oil, margarine, soy oil, squeezable butter, peanut oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, cottonseed oil

• Foods high in sodium, salt and MSG
MSG and all its various other names - including 'natural flavour' are the worst thing you can feed to mum. This substance is an excitotoxin which is designed to fire off receptors in your brain for an hour, and then the cell dies from exhaustion.