How Much Exercise Is Needed to Help Improve Thinking Skills? We know that exercise may help improve thinking skills. But how much exercise? And for how long? To find the answers, researchers reviewed all of the studies where older adults were asked to exercise for at least four weeks and...
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Exercise and Thinking Skills – How Much is Enough?
How Much Exercise Is Needed to Help Improve Thinking Skills? We know that exercise may help improve thinking skills. But how much exercise? And for how long? To find the answers, researchers reviewed all of the studies where older adults were asked to exercise for at least four weeks and...
Exercise and Thinking Skills – How Much is Enough?
How Much Exercise Is Needed to Help Improve Thinking Skills? We know that exercise may help improve thinking skills. But how much exercise? And for how long? To find the answers, researchers reviewed all of the studies where older adults were asked to exercise for at least four weeks and...
Exercise Helps Keep Seniors Safe from Falls
The Medical Minute: Exercise helps to keep seniors safe from falls – courtesy of Penn State Health News Each day, more than 800 Americans suffer a hip fracture. Most of those fractures are due to falls, and most happen to seniors, who have lower bone density and muscle mass than...
Low Physical Activity in Youth May Mean Increased Dementia Rates in the Future (VIDEO)
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Cardiac Rehab Can Improve Muscle Strength
Researchers took muscle biopsies from 60 heart failure patients and 60 healthy study participants. Then, half of the participants in each group were randomly assigned to four weeks of supervised aerobic training or no exercise. After the exercise intervention, researchers conducted another round of muscle biopsies. Investigators found that heart...
Irregular Activity / Sex Can Be Dangerous – Consistency is Key
Being a couch potato six days of the week and deciding to ride a bike, work in the yard, go hiking, and/or have sex on day seven – well it could kill you. A recent USA Today article looked at how bouts of exercise and sex may be riskier to...
Aerobic Exercise Can Increase Brain Size
Aerobic exercise can increase the size of the aging brain’s hippocampus, the part that houses memory and spatial navigation, researchers report. Researchers studied 120 older adults (ages 55 to 80) who didn’t normally exercise regularly, over the course of a year. Half of the group was assigned to an aerobic...
Jack LaLanne – What Can You Say – Incredible Role Model
Jack LaLanne, the fitness guru died January 23 at age 96. Lalanne ate healthy and exercised every day of his life up until the end, his agent said. His advice is timeless: “The only way you can hurt the body is not use it,” “Inactivity is the killer and, remember,...
Senior Exercise Vital No Matter When You Start
Keeping seniors moving is vital, and some exercise is better than none at all. According to a recent HealthDay News item, getting seniors to work out can be challenging. Experts in elderly exercise note that seniors will give reasons as varied as feeling self-conscious to serious fears of falling when...