Cook with olive oil rather than corn or safflower oil. Eat more fresh fruit and less cakes, donuts and sugary pastries. Switch from whole to skim when consuming milk, yogurt or cottage cheese. Avoid or reduce intake of pizza cheese, ice cream and fatty meats. Eat as much salad and raw, unsalted nuts as possible.
Brazil nuts are delicious and high in selenium, an essential anti-oxidant.
Other excellent sources of anti-oxidants are tomatoes, cantalopes, watermelon, peaches, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, kale and chard. As a consequence the person with a TBI experiences slowed cognition, impaired memory, depression, apathy and irritability. Someone with a TBI can least afford to eat lots of bad fat and little good fat, because all of those problems will be compounded. A person with a TBI should take the best possible care of himself and give his brain every bit of extra help, including nutritional help, it needs to recover and resume normal function. A diet which is high in Omega 3, which balances intake of Omega 3 and Omega 6, which avoids excess sugar and starch, and which is high in anti-oxidants, will maximize the function of the brain cells spared by the trauma, and promote the healing and recovery of damaged cells.