Below are a few of the best online links I’ve come across lately regarding brain health and fitness, exercise, brain games, memory improvement, and anti-aging. I hope you’ll find them as informative and useful as I did.
- Exercise can extend survival even in ‘oldest old’ – The benefits of physical exercise just can’t be stated enough. From the article:
They noted that exercise reaped benefits even for previously sedentary 85-year-olds; their three-year survival rate was double that of inactive 85-year-olds.
Oldsters didn’t have to be super-athletes to live longer; walking at least four hours weekly counted, even if it was just in 15-minute strolls a few times daily.
How cool is that? And as previously written about here on this blog, it has been shown that physical exercise can even reverse brain decline.
- 47 Ways to Fine Tune Your Brain – This article comes from the Dumb Little Man website, but these tips are far from dumb. The article looks at dozens of tactics that will help you maintain your brain into old age and help to increase your mental agility and cognitive development.
- Increasing cognition by playing games – It’s estimated that at least 65% of Multiple Sclerosis patients endure cognition problems on a day to day basis. Can playing brain games help them? From the article:
Is it really possible to improve some, MS related, cognition issues by playing computer games? Doctors from Baylor College of Medicine here in Houston seem to think so.
If this article motivates you to play some brain games, remember we’ve got a ton of free brain games right here on this site in addition to a great list of the top commercial brain games as well!
- Do Brain Workouts Sharpen Thinking? – Well, it all depends. From the article:
According to Zelinski, a brain game or any other activity can’t improve thinking or turn back the mental clock unless it’s both challenging and novel enough to build new connections between brain cells.
We think that’s excellent advice! In fact, if you wan to learn more about how to choose a brain game that will work for you specifically, subscribe to our newsletter and receive a free brain games guide.
- Obese People Have ‘Severe Brain Degeneration’ – Of course we all know about the health risks associated with obesity, but maybe you didn’t know about how it affects your brain. From the article:
A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals, researchers said today.
- Drinking Coffee Could Reverse Alzheimers – Being a coffee drinker myself, I especially liked this article! According to a recent sutdy:
Hefty jolts of caffeine have reinvigorated the brains of old, demented mice at the University of South Florida.
Well, that’s it for now. I hope you enjoyed the brain fitness news links presented this month and found them enlightening.
