Love Your Age: Fitness for Healthy Aging

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A neuroscientist shares the 4 brain-changing benefits of exercise—and how much she does every week Exercise offers many benefits, including more energy, weight loss and stronger muscles. But we rarely consider the effects it has on our brain. A neuroscientist breaks down how physical activity can improve your focus, memory, learning — and even promote longevity.

Never too old!

A 100-Year-Old Woman Is Officially the World’s Oldest Powerlifter Guinness World Records recently certified her remarkable achievement.

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Why movement is critical to learning The way instruction is delivered in post-secondary institutions doesn’t always take into account the brain-body connection. In fact, it can reduce students to 'brains on sticks.'

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/could-the-immune-system-be-key-to-alzheimers-disease?fbclid=IwAR2OJg0G-It_57H2eAskEozGrjvPHcKwH46ZfkNG5ZK5t5U2-FCOzfpVnps

Could the Immune System Be Key to Alzheimer’s Disease? Increasing evidence suggests that chronic inflammation takes a toll on the brain over the course of a lifetime.

One more reason that exercise is health prevention as well as medicine: those who exercise fare better against Covid

Study Finds Inactivity a Key Risk Factor for Severe COVID-19 - FitBizWeekly New research out of Kaiser Permanente, led by IHRSA Medical, Science, and Health Advisory Council member Dr. Robert Sallis, finds that physical inactivity is a top

If you adopt only one new healthy habit, physical activity is your best bet!
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Physical inactivity associated with the burden of global non-communicable diseases and deaths The health implications of physical inactivity are truly a global issue with physical inactivity responsible for up to 8% of non-communicable diseases and deaths across the world, finds research published online in British Journal of Sports Medicine.

How Exercise Enhances Aging Brains Sedentary, older adults who took aerobic dance classes twice a week showed improvements in brain areas critical for memory and thinking.

It won't be long now!