Thursday, December 27, 2012

Exercise makes you smarter: so what are you waiting for?

UPDATE (2013):  http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20090625/study-overweight-people-live-longer
The headline speaks for itself...

Get off your *ss and move around -
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/exercise-and-the-ever-smarter-human-brain/

from NYT:
Anyone whose resolve to exercise in 2013 is a bit shaky might want to consider an emerging scientific view of human evolution. It suggests that we are clever today in part because a million years ago, we could outrun and outwalk most other mammals over long distances. Our brains were shaped and sharpened by movement, the idea goes, and we continue to require regular physical activity in order for our brains to function optimally.