You can’t force your kids to eat foods they don’t like just because they’re packed with vitamins – some kids love broccoli, others won’t touch it with a ten-foot pole.

Growing evidence points to magnesium deficiency hampering memory and learning.⁸ A diet rich in magnesium opens up brain receptors, greatly improving cognition.

Soda pop sounds innocent enough. But is it bad for us?

"Yes. Simple, unequivocal answer, yes. Yup. Affirmative. Absolutely,” says board-certified nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS.⁹

Highly reactive forms of oxygen called free radicals can attach themselves to our brain cells, damaging the cells and leaving a biological layer of rust that impedes learning.¹⁰