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 …
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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 …
Exercises To Keep You Fit From 9 to 5 (PHOTOS) Read MoreExercise 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 …
Exercise Tips: 8 Gentle Exercises (Photos) Read MoreDon’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 …
Don’t Shrink-Wrap Your Brain Read MoreWant 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 …
Want Better Grades? Here’s How You Get Them Read MoreHow 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 …
How to Get Your Children to Play Outdoors Read MoreGet 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 …
Get some exercise outdoors Read MoreTeens 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 …
Teens Sleep Better Read MoreWalking 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 …
Walking Running Read MoreThe 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 …
The Pros Have Got Your Back Read MoreExercise 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 …
Exercise and Vitamin Supplements Don’t Mix Read MoreExercise 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 …
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