{"id":71586,"date":"2009-12-08T16:56:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T21:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=135152"},"modified":"2009-12-08T16:56:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T21:56:32","slug":"could-exercise-make-you-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/71586","title":{"rendered":"Could Exercise Make You Smarter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We tend to feel better when we get exercise<\/a>, but could physical activity also help stimulate the brain? Newly published study results reveal a clear association between good physical fitness and better IQ test results.<\/p>\n

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The strongest associations were for logical thinking and verbal comprehension. And researchers noted that the key to the link with the IQ test was physical fitness, not strength. Plus, since researchers analyzed twins as well, they found that the link isn’t based on genes, but on environmental factors like exercise. The people in the study who were fit at 18 were more likely to go to college and secure better jobs.<\/p>\n

Researchers noted that being fit means you have better heart and lung capacity, which gives your brain plenty of oxygen. Another mental advantage of exercise is that it reduces stress and anxiety.<\/p>\n

The study, carried out at the Center for Brain Repair and Rehabilitation in Gothenburg<\/a>, involved 1.2 million Swedish men in the military. The results were published in December in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>.<\/p>\n

More advantages of being physically fit<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to the possibility that being fit will may help make you smarter, being fit has some impressive physical<\/a> advantages as you might have guessed. Studies have shown that people who are physically fit are less likely to suffer from heart disease or to die from other illnesses. Physical fitness can be determined by an exercise stress test,<\/a> which measures your heart responds to exertion, such as walking on a treadmill.<\/p>\n

Do you consider yourself physically fit?<\/p>\n

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Could Exercise Make You Smarter?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We tend to feel better when we get exercise, but could physical activity also help stimulate the brain? Newly published study results reveal a clear association between good physical fitness and better IQ test results. The strongest associations were for logical thinking and verbal comprehension. And researchers noted that the key to the link with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}