Eat Smart

This is part two of a two-part series on lifestyle and brain fitness. Part I: “Buff and Brainy,” is available at Buff and Brainy.

At family dinner tables around the globe, prodding mothers have dished out the same refrain for decades: “Eat your fish,” they say. “It’s brain food!” For children picking at crusty fish sticks or blobs of pink poached salmon, the statement raises suspicions.