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  • No Running in School?
    Physical education is proven to improve academic performance in school and slow down brain aging in adults. Still, our schools continue to cut PE and now are banning running games on recess. What's going on?
  • 100% Fad Free
    Most of us already know what is healthy and what is not if we just think about it. Avoid the fad diets and use your common sense and you will go a long way toward health
  • Is it for your own good?
    Not everything is as it seems when it comes to health. Yes, you have to eat the right stuff and get enough physical activity - but an often forgotten part of the formula relates to how that stuff makes you feel. If you hate doing something it will not be good for you. Conversely if you absolutely love something that has some benefit on its own.
  • What is Brain Fitness?
    Brain Fitness is a combination of improving the physical and mental health of your brain. This is accomplished through nutrtion for the brain, physical exercise to increase brain power and mental exercise to increase brain connectivity.
  • Eat Fat and Stress Out
    A new study shows that even a single high fat meal can increase your blood pressure in response to stress. This in turn may lead to a future of chronic high blood pressure and hear disease
  • Candy-Coated Sports
    When did we start associating youth sports with all the post-game treats. Is it possible for us to teach our kids to have fun in sports without sugar?
  • When Exercise is not Exercise
    Exercise accounts for some of the calories you burn every day. But it turns out that fidgeting actually accounts for enough calories to determine how much weight you gain or lose.
  • Patriotic Health
    The best thing you can do for your country today is to improve your health. Declining general health and and aging population our stressing our health care system beyond what it can handle. Find an accountability partner and move towards health, for your country's sake.
  • Treat Acne with a Low Glycemic Diet
    New data suggests that a low glycemic diet goes beyond benefits for weight loss, chronic disease prevention and energy boosts. It also appears to help fight teenage acne.
  • Variety is the Spice of Brain Fitness: Part I – EPIQ performance
    Intelligence is more than IQ. It's more than how 'book smart' you are or the grades you got in school. Intelligence also depends on your emotional intelligence (EQ) and your physical intelligence (PQ). Your level of brain fitness determines how well all of your intelligences work together to give you the best chance of success in life.
  • Variety is the Spice of Brain Fitness: Part II – Nutrition and IQ
    Simply put, good nutrition provides you brain with quality materials to build quality brain circuits. Poor nutrition provides your brain with junk to gunk up the system. Over time, good nutrition enhances brain function and poor nutrition increases the chance that brain circuits will break down and lead to dementia.
  • Reading Minds with Fitter Brains
    'Reading Minds' is a skill that we can all learn. I'm not talking about science fiction, but being able to accurately interpret peoples emotions by looking into their eyes and faces. New research shows that specific brain hormones are responsible for our abilities to read others.
  • Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
    The science of brain health supplements continues to emerge. New studies show the benefit of several key supplements in maintaining cognitive health and improving learning in the elder years.
  • The Mentality of Physical Activity
    Physical exercise in kids makes them smarter. Study after study supports that conclusion. Now, a new study shows that kids that exercise regularly do better on test assessing their cognitive function and math skills.
  • Nap Today, Perform Better Tomorrow.
    Although many people steal hours from their sleep to get more done in the day, this may actually be counter-productive. New research sheds light on why sleep messes with parts of our brains and decreases our productivity.
  • Fishing for Neuroticism
    A new study shows that higher neuroticism scores are associated with lower omega-3s and higher omega-6s in the blood of healthy adults.
  • Ready, Set, Think
    A new study shows that exercise is a good anti-depressant because it turns up specific growth factors in a part to the brain that control stress and mood.
  • A Soda for Your Thoughts?
    Everyone knows that high sugar drinks, like soda pop, are bad for your waistline. Now new data shows that these drinks may also be bad for your brain as well.
  • Brain Fitness Case Study: Kris Kringle
    Santa has to keep his brain fit in order to remember all those kids names, where they live and what they want. How does he do it?
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