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Exercise keeps dementia at bay: Running and walking 'significantly' boosts brain power
express.co.uk ^ | Giles Sheldrick

Posted on 04/25/2017 5:24:26 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

Running, walking, yoga and tai chi have all been shown to “significantly” boost brain power in the over 50s.But experts say almost any exercise leaving you breathless helps with the benefits evident irrespective of the current state of someone’s brain health.

Research by a team of respected Australian scientists confirm what is good for the heart is also good for the brain.

The team behind the remarkable findings said evidence was strong enough to recommend prescribing certain exercises to improve cognitive function.

Professor Joseph Northey, of the University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, said: “The findings suggest an exercise programme with components of both aerobic and resistance-type training, of at least moderate intensity and at least 45 minutes per session, on as many days of the week as possible, is beneficial to cognitive function in adults aged over 50.”

Researchers reviewed the records of 12,820 people in their 50s from 39 trials who were given supervised exercise programmes, including aerobic exercise, resistance training, multi-component exercise, containing elements of aerobic and resistance training, tai chi and yoga.

They found taking up moderate or vigorous exercise improved brain capacity, the ability to process information quickly and memory.

Aerobic exercise, like running, swimming or walking, significantly enhanced cognitive abilities while resistance training, like weights, had a “pronounced effect” on working memory.

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To: RoosterRedux

I’m guessing that yours was one of her more memorable coffee klatch conversations.

:-)

Do the cats belong to you or do you belong to the cats?


61 posted on 04/25/2017 9:01:47 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America.)
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To: RoosterRedux; windcliff; stylecouncilor

Thanks for posting, RR.

w, s, ping....


62 posted on 04/25/2017 9:09:12 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Farmer Dean

it will not be a walk in the park. there may be times when it will seem worse than the disease. it will change you forever.

be strong you can get through it .


63 posted on 04/25/2017 9:18:56 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: RoosterRedux
So the muscle shakes in my legs I get from certain poses or when I'm out of breath from Vinyasa mean nothing?

I lift free weights, do cardio, and pilates (mat and machine) but find that yoga kicks my butt. And no, not due to stretching.

65 posted on 04/25/2017 9:58:39 PM PDT by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: Jane Long
How long does it take you to do the 6 miles? TIA.

A power walk at :15.40 miles pace or about 1 hour35min total time. Then there is coffee and a scone later that un-does it all. I call that my cool down period.

Walking is a perfect exercise imho. Low impact, inexpensive (shoes are your expense), easy to build up the distance

66 posted on 04/25/2017 11:39:50 PM PDT by llevrok (A group of baboons is called a "congress." Just sayin' .....)
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To: RoosterRedux

Interesting: my dad and his brother were both tallish, thin, strong men. My dad never exercised though he lettered in 3 sports in college. His brother walked miles daily and swam many laps every day in summer, until he was in his mid 80s. My dad had Alzheimer’s by 80 and was too impaired to live a normal life by then. He lived 5 more childlike years. My uncle did not get one bit of Dementia until he was about 88. He is 90 and he’s declined a lot but still walks a mile or so up a hill every day.

I believe it was the exercise that kept Dementia at bay for about 10 years longer for my uncle than his brother.


67 posted on 04/25/2017 11:47:02 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: RoosterRedux

Since I have too many people to care for, I can’t get out long enough to run or walk. So I’ve started trampolining because I can get a lot out of 5-10 minutes, and never leave the yard so I can keep an eye on mom (who has Alzheimer’s, as did dad) and the kids. I am loving it.

I do try to take mom for walks but she walks so slowly it was “a waste of time” and no real exercise value for me. Until I came up with the idea of walking behind her slow pace, doing lunges. Now if she only gets down one block, I have gotten a good little workout! I’m the one who looks like a total idiot on the street but hey, it works for me.

And I love curry and also take turmeric daily.


68 posted on 04/25/2017 11:52:12 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Farmer Dean

Wishing you a full speedy recovery, Farmer. May those treatments be easy on you.


69 posted on 04/25/2017 11:53:08 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: RoosterRedux

I did this, running sprints uphill barefoot on grass, until I was about 4 mos pregnant. It was so fun, like being a kid again.


70 posted on 04/25/2017 11:54:24 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: BipolarBob

Zofran? Sure it works. I have used it for surgeries and pregnancies. It definitely reduces nausea better and with less allergic reactione than the compazine drugs. Can always get the little subq shots.


71 posted on 04/25/2017 11:56:56 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: flaglady47

Using your brain muscle a lot will, IMHO, keep Alzheimers more at bay than anything else, so reading FR and posting here will do much for your memory bank folks. Keep thinking!!!!


It sounds so positive and nice. But it’s bunk. My parents both got Alzheimer’s. I have been tested and do not have “a gene” for it. So I don’t think they did, either. They were both very busy, smart, achieving seniors. They traveled, dad worked, he did other doctors’ bookkeeping for fun, followed his investments, was an expert witness, even still subbed for other docs. Until he couldn’t. Mom read 3-4 American history books a week, was very involved socially, traveling with Dad. They bought mountaintop property in their 70s and built a big house, a big involved project. They loved cards and other games.

THEY DID NOT GET ALZHEIMERS FROM LACK OF BRAIN ACTIVITY.

I believe it is caused by something (or some things) in our environment. There is no such thing as a genetic epidemic. And it isn’t that people are living longer. Both of them will not be living as long as their parents did (mom is still alive so that isn’t for sure, but probably).


72 posted on 04/26/2017 12:04:40 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: piasa

Heheh. Probably right.


73 posted on 04/26/2017 1:42:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m with you - no telling how nuts I would be if I hadn’t exercised all my life.


74 posted on 04/26/2017 2:50:59 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

I’m no where near stage 4,the Doctors tell me that they expect to cure me.Thank God your wife is doing well.


75 posted on 04/26/2017 3:04:44 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: meyer

So walk


76 posted on 04/26/2017 4:39:42 AM PDT by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: gundog
2000 miles and you’re still in Florida?

That is what happens when you keep going in circles! Something about returning home, where a cup of coffee is quick to be brewed. As summer approaches, I'll move to iced coffee.

77 posted on 04/26/2017 7:04:56 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: SES1066
As summer approaches, I'll move to iced coffee

As summer approaches, I'll move towards the Oregon and Washington coast.

Last summer spent "warm" wx months in Yellowstone and Glacier NP. Saw some snow in Yellowstone in the middle part of July. In the 30's in the AM and highs in the 70's (usually).

The 2015 summer spent it in Maine.

It's so nice not to have to try and stay cool in the oppressive heat. My exercise watch keeps my step count. I almost always walk at least 6 miles a day.

78 posted on 04/26/2017 11:06:59 AM PDT by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama did)
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