A new study links cardiovascular fitness in early adulthood to increased intelligence,
better performance on cognitive tests, and higher educational
achievement later in life. This comes from proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences .
Middle-aged professional athletes who ran about 50 miles a
week and had done so for many years had cellular proteins more effective
in preventing cell death than healthy, non-athletes of similar age who
did not exercise regularly. Translation of this report in the journal,
Circulation, is that exercise can keep the body young in middle age.
Moderate-to-high intensity exercise such as jogging, swimming
or tennis may help reduce stroke risk in older men by as much as 60
percent, but a similar protective effect was not seen in women, as
reported in the journal, Neurology.
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