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Get the most out of your brain

Posted on May 13th 2007 7:11AM by Rigel Celeste

Filed Under: Healthy Habits, Diet & Weight Loss, Fitness

We could all use more brain power to work with (I know I could!), and as we get older that issue seems to be more and more important. Physical fitness is an important part of staying mentally sharp, but there are lots of other things that have also been shown to help. Here are 10 things you can do to boost your brain power!

Pretty much everything on this list are things you're probably already trying to do for other health reasons, but it just goes to show how such a complicated system like the human body really is interconnected, and that it has amazingly simple needs: just take care of yourself!

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Tags: age, aging, brain, brain power, BrainPower, cognition, cognitive, decline, head, memory, mental, mind

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Crabby McSlacker 5-13-2007 @ 10:25AM

I love articles like this that give you more reasons to feel good about the stuff you're already doing. Much more fun than the kind that says you're slacking and you're lazy and you'll pay for it later.

The only thing on here I'm not doing yet is the specialized computer programs to help memory--but I can't help thinking there are more natural, fun ways to get this kind of training.

I'll wait 'til I'm a bit older and more decrepit before I start getting too obsessed about memory training. I think I've got quite a few years before I have to worry all that much about... about... now what was I saying?

Crabby McSlacker 5-13-2007 @ 10:38AM

Oops.

As a further demonstration that perhaps I need the computer memory trainer after all, i forgot to add my "signature" line.

(The signature line is a not-so-subtle effort to entice a few That'sFit readers over to Cranky Fitness for a brief visit, where we're celebrating Mothers Day, or Not-Mothers Day). But you must come immediately back to That'sfit, where there's a lot more useful information.

Crabby makes her home at http://crankyfitness.blogspot.com/