Your Brain on Food  How chemicals control your thoughts and
feelings.  How wine and fruits help your brain stay healthy
Hippocrates was right all along  "Let food be thy medicine and
medicine be thy food", Hippocrates.  During the past twenty-five
hundred years since the time of Hippocrates science has made
significant progress in understanding how food exerts its
beneficial effects upon health.  We now have solid proof that
the foods and beverages that are consumed by humans, in
particular those derived from tea leaves, coffee and cocoa
beans, grapes, berries, hops and other grains have clearly
defined beneficial actions upon brain function. While these
foods and drinks have quite different chemical compositions,
they all contain compounds called flavonoids.  Flavonoids are
not nutritious; however, they are believed to be responsible for
the beneficial effects of these foods upon the brain.   For many
decades the biochemical benefits of flavonoids were attributed
to their ability to confer protection from o