Thursday, February 10, 2011

Keep Up the Pace

I like the fact that I can actually just walk briskly to get this benefit rather than having to jog, or do anything more strenuous. And I gather the key is to keep it up for about 40 minutes or so at a time. I'm up to something like that when I walk around the neighborhood listening to podcasts as I go.

Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com
After a year, brain scans showed that among the walkers, the hippocampus had increased in volume by about 2 percent on average;
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