"Teaching Yourself: Teaching Your Brain,"Eat Chocolate

A new book, Teaching Yourself: Teaching Your Brain, recommends eating dark chocolate, having plenty of sex, and eating cold meats and fish for breakfast to boost your brain power.


Eating chocolate can possibly even help fight fatigue, sleep deprivation, and the effects of aging. It can also help sharpen the mind and give a short-term boost to cognitive skills. Women crave chocolate more than men do when they're depressed. This suggests that chocolate may play a role in improving mood.