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Two excellent articles on Science News about the effect of exercise and diet on the brain.
“They studied two groups of healthy mice housed individually in cages that were identical except for one detail: One group of mice had running wheels.
‘The mice just love [the wheel]. They run on it as soon as you put it in their cages,’ says Van Praag. ‘If you let them run as much as they want, they run all night long.’
Over the next several weeks, the researchers kept track as the runners voluntarily racked up an average of 4 to 5 kilometers on their wheels every night. The scientists then tested whether the groups differed in how quickly each mouse solved a popular learning test known as the Morris water maze.
Although both groups of mice swam at about the same speed, Gage and his colleagues noticed that the runners learned the location of a platform hidden under the maze’s opaque water significantly sooner than their less-fit counterparts did“.
This is important for the young and the old. In the young, good diet and plenty of exercise keeps the brain growing and may help lessen the symptoms of dyslexia and ADHD. In the old it has important implications for preventing and slowing down degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s.
Buff and Brainy, Eat Smart.