7.17.2012

Exercise Your Brain

A good workout not only burns fat, strengthen your heart, and keeps diseases like diabetes at bay--it improves your mental health too.  Work up a sweat and you will:

Stay Sharp: A new study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise shows that people who maintain at least a moderat lever of cardiorespiratory fitness cut their risk of dying from dementia in half. 

Think More Clearly:  Thirty minutes of jogging can improve cognitive skills, like comprehension and attention, according to a study in the International Journal of Psychopysiology.

Remember This: Research conducted in Ireland's University of Dublin found that performance on a memory test got significantly better after only 30 minutes of cycling.

Up Your IQ:  Forty minutes of vigorous activity like running, a day for three months raised scores 3.8 points on average in a Georgia Health Sciences University study.

Feel Happier:  Get moving for at least two hours per week and you're 70 to 85 percent less likely to be depressed or anxious, or to burn out, per a  study in the journal Mental Health and Physical Activity.

Source:  Shape Magazine

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