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Lifestyle
Health DigestPublished 09/07/08
Benefits of walkingBrisk walking led to slight improvements on mental tests for older people with memory problems in what is billed as the first rigorous test of exercise on the aging brain. The results from the small Australian study - published in the Journal of the American Medical Association - were only modest. But they back up observational studies showing potential mental benefits from physical activity. The effects of exercise were at least as good, if not better, than those seen with drugs approved to aid mental function in Alzheimer's disease, according to experts not involved in the...
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