Got Brain Cells? Here is How To Grow New Ones
When I was growing up as a wee neuroscientist, I was told that we could not grow any new brain cells. So, when you go on a bender and wake up to feel like a jack-hammer is lodged in your head because of all the neurons you pummeled the...
Exercises To Keep You Fit From 9 to 5 (PHOTOS)
It can be tough to get enough activity in a work environment. Especially if you’re in a cubicle or otherwise tied to a terminal or desk. I was working with employees at an AT&T call center, and they literally couldn’t move from their computers. That was a challenging environment,...
Exercise Tips: 8 Gentle Exercises (Photos)
Exercise doesn’t have to kill you. This is part of a new awareness in our culture of health — and it’s terrific. If you love to be athletic and grunt and sweat and no-pain-no-gain your exercise routines, then bless you. But that is by no means the norm. You...
Don’t Shrink-Wrap Your Brain
Whatever you do, DON’T shrink your brain!! Nearly 300 people in Pittsburgh kept track of how much they walked each week. After nine years of this, scientists took brain scans to measure their brain volume. After four more years, they tested to see if anyone in the study had...
Want Better Grades? Here’s How You Get Them
It doesn’t matter if you’re in Middle School or College … if you exercise, you make better grades. After controlling for every extraneous variable on the planet, researchers showed that exercise made a sizable difference in a student’s G.P.A. On a 4.0 grade scale, students who exercised vigorously seven...
How to Get Your Children to Play Outdoors
I remember my mom … “Go outside, you’re driving me crazy!!” Then, we’d bolt for the door, and go hang with our friends, in the woods, in the yard, in the little swatch of woods in the back. “Playing Outside” is an indicator of how our Culture of Health...
Get some exercise outdoors
Hey guys, need one more reason to get outside and enjoy being active? This article from Healthfinder.gov shows how far regular exercise can go toward lowering your risk of prostate cancer … and even if you do eventually develop this disease, exercise is associated with a less aggressive form...
Teens Sleep Better
Check this out: Athletic teens sleep better than their couch-potato peers and have fewer problems concentrating at school, a new study finds. Researchers in Switzerland asked 434 adolescents with an average age of 17 to keep a log of their sleep and daytime habits for one week. … The...
Walking Running
This is a great article by Tara Parker Pope of the NYTimes. I love the fact that this very sane technique … actually works!! In some ways, it is a great metaphor for us all. Doing more does not always lead to doing more — in running, in working,...
The Pros Have Got Your Back
Follow the pros. They know what they’re doing. The next time you move your household, or even just clean out the basement — as silly as it may seem for those guys who think they’re invincible and no harm will ever come to them — take the advice of...
Exercise and Vitamin Supplements Don’t Mix
This study, published in the National Academy of Sciences and reported in the New York Times, suggests that if you exercise to improve your metabolism and prevent diabetes, you may want to avoid antioxidant supplements C and E. The researchers, led by Dr. Michael Ristow, a nutritionist at the...
Exercise on the Brain
Do it. Find something. Something that you can love that makes you move, and do that. Being active does a lot of things for your heart, and for your circulatory system. In essence, it keeps the pipes clean. Here is a great summary from Harvard if you want to...