Do You Have A Healthy Brain? The Secret To Mental Agility

[Guest rota6566@yahoo.com.tw]

We all know to exercise our bodies to keep fit, but how often do you

think about exercising your brain? And what type of exercise does it

need anyway? What are the facts? What is the secret to mental agility?

 

Keeping mentally active will keep your brain in good shape. Getting

older does not mean that you have to be forgetful!

 

Recent research into Alzheimer's disease found that people who were

less active between the ages of 20 and 60 years are almost 4 times

more likely to develop the disease. The brain, like the rest of the

body, needs to be kept active to keep healthy.

 

You exercise your body to keep it in shape. Now it has been shown that

exercising your brain can keep it in shape too.

 

That leaves us with the question of what to do to keep our brains

active. The research discovered that how you spend your leisure time

can affect the health of your brain.

 

Leisure activities can be divided into -

 

Passive activities, which include watching TV, participating in social

activities, and listening to music.

 

Intellectual activities are reading, painting, playing a musical

instrument, woodworking.

 

Physical activities, for example, gardening, playing sport, working

out at the gym, walking, jogging.

 

The only 'activity' that the Alzheimer's patients had performed more

frequently than the control group was watching TV!

 

The research team was lead by Robert Friedland, professor of

neurology, University Hospitals of Cleveland. He said "A relative

increase in the amount of time devoted to intellectual activities from

early adulthood (ages 20-39) to mid-adulthood (ages 40-60) was

associated with a significant decrease in the probability of having

Alzheimer's disease later in life."

 

An intellectual or physical hobby stimulates the brain and may reduce

neurodegeneration as seen in diseases such as Alzheimer's. So sitting

watching the

 

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