Eat Smart in your Exam - Tips from the Dietitian

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What you eat affects your brain, and the extent to which you can focus. Dr Joz Nutrition Consultant therefore gives the following tips for graduate students. In short, eat smart!

diet during exam time

It is first important that you eat regularly. This means three meals a day, and two or three times in between something healthy. As a snack, you can take fruit, a biscuit as between League, a slice of gingerbread or some yoghurt.

Don't Skip Breakfast

Especially young people skip breakfast often. But you have brains morning outset fuel - in the form of glucose is necessary. Without breakfast, you're less well focused. A breakfast with slow carbohydrates (bread, yogurt with muesli or porridge) is always good.

Do not go lines in the examination period. If you lose a few pounds for the summer, wait until after slimming it with your final exam. It has been proven that people on the line do worse scores on intelligence tests and tests where the response is measured. Dieters scored the same as people who had drunk two glasses of alcohol.

Fruit and vegetables

Stress uses more of certain vitamins and minerals, so it is more important to pay attention to your food and plenty of fruits and vegetables in the exam. A deficiency of vitamins and minerals (e.g. iron) makes you less concentrate or that you feel tired. Alternatively you can take a multivitamin, you can be sure that you get all the nutrients in adequate. If you need some extra vitamins and minerals occupy, you eliminate any deficiencies and you will feel fitter. However, this effect is only effective if there is therefore a deficiency of one or more vitamins was.

Drinking water

In the evening, you better not to take too much, too late or too fat food because with a full stomach worse sleep. If you drink alcohol you fall asleep quickly, but you sleep less deeply. The quality of sleep is less by alcohol. You will be less rested. In addition, make sure that you drink enough water, about 1.5 liters per day. If you are tired and need a night blocks, coffee can help to stay awake. But do not take more than a few cups a day. Otherwise you may get from your stomach or shaky hands.

Just before the exam

Half an hour before an exam you can drink a cup of coffee so you just 'alert' and it helps you to concentrate better. Even an energy drink can pep up during the exam. Yet these drinks contain caffeine besides much sugar. Sugar gives many peaks and valleys in blood sugar. It will take some energy, but shortly afterwards what makes it slow. Use an energy drink only for the last part of your exam.  If you want to eat during the exam, choose rather to slow carbohydrates in the form of a banana or a sandwich, then for sugars such as a candy bar or other candy.

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