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5 Simple Steps That Will Improve Your Teens' Test Scores and Memory



Does your teen have an important test coming up in the near future?
If so, here are some tips that can help them improve their results.

A great memory starts with a healthy brain. These 5 simple steps will help them improve their memory and test scores.

1. Proper Nutrition

We all know that teens’ diets tend to be poor. 

Pizza, soda pop, and other bad-for-you types of food can really be a culprit in poor test scores.

Making sure your teen eats healthy will not only improve their test scores, but will help them stay healthy so they aren’t missing school. 

Plus, teaching them good eating habits ensure they grow into healthy, productive adults.

Encourage eating more vegetables and fruit, along with lean protein and fiber. 

While these foods may take a while to get accustomed to eating, you can start slowly implementing more and more of them in everyone’s diets.

It takes time to change our pallets and what we like. Look for easy and tasty recipes out there that can help you find ways to incorporate more healthy foods into home meals.

Supplements that help are:

A good multivitamin/multimineral with iron that is balanced, complete and won’t upset their stomach. 
Keep in mind, teen girls should take a multi with iron until menopause and boys until their early 20’s, then switch to men's without iron unless anemic. (Our multi with iron says “Women”, but it really is for anyone needing iron.)

Lecithin, BVitamins, ginkgo, bilberry,hawthorn have all shown to be helpful with brain health.

You can try Shaklee's MindWorks.
It has guarana and grape seed extract which when combined, has been shown to improve cognitive performance.


2. Regular Physical Exercise

Exercise is well known to help with brain health and memory retention. 

It can be easy for teens to get bogged down with so much school work, screen time and hanging with friends, that they forget how important it is to keep active.

If your teen is not active in sports encourage activity by joining a gym, joining a sport, or even walking daily with friends or the family dog.

Exercising as a family is also beneficial for everyone and it engrains good future habits for everyone. Plus, it is a lot of fun!


3. Mental Stimulation

Here are some things you can try to challenge their brains:

- Suggest they try doing things for a few minutes per day using their opposite hand.
- Take them to new places and practice remembering the landmarks.
- Learn to play a musical instrument.
- Trivia and brain boosting games can help as well.


4. Stress Management

Stress causes the release of a hormone called cortisol which has been shown to damage the area of the brain responsible for episodic memory and can cause premature aging.

We all know that when our stress level is high our brains just do not recall details like it normally does.

Teens nowadays have way too much stress in their lives. Being a teenager in and of itself is stressful enough, but add in today’s many problems and their young lives are over full of stress.

Parents can control some, but maybe not all of their children’s stress. What can be controlled, should be.

Encouraging an open dialogue between parents and teens is crucial to helping them through life’s problems. 

When they know they can go to their parents for help and advice without judgement that takes a lot of stress off of a teen’s shoulders.

Limiting screen time and social media presence can help. There is a lot of stress that comes from there and parents need to keep themselves aware of all the issues that teens are facing on these online sites.

Learning natural, non-medication ways to handle anxiety and stress is very important for teens to learn.


5. Sleep and Mental Rest

Sleep and mental rest boosts mental health. 
Plus, since teens bodies are growing at a very fast rate, they need a lot more sleep.

Ten hours of sleep each night is important to make sure they are getting enough rest for both their bodies and their brains to recover and be ready for the next day.

Teenagers who gets 10 hours of sleep each night have proven to be good decision makers, have a sharper memory and are more focused on their everyday tasks.

Sleep can sometimes be hard to come by if a teen is overstimulated or stressed. 
One supplement that can help you safely relax is Calcium-Magnesium –  it works as natural muscle relaxer. It helps the muscles and brain relax safely and effectively. 
Plus teens can always use more calcium!


Teens face many issues in their young lives today. Keeping their bodies healthy and their brains sharp isn’t hard, but does require effort and a little work.

I assure you though, it is worth the effort because teens are our future and we want to do all we can to help them lead healthier lives both now and in their future adult years.

Please share with us your concerns about your teen's health and even ideas that you have tried that is working.

Enjoy this time together as it will all pass by so quickly!

Be well my friends,


Julie

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