Fitness
Aerobic exercise improves cognitive abilities of elderly adults
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, April 28th, 2003
According to a study from the United States, "A meta-analytic study was conducted to examine the hypothesis that aerobic fitness training enhances the cognitive vitality of healthy but sedentary older adults. Eighteen intervention studies published between 1966 and 2001 were entered into the analysis."
"Several theoretically and practically important results were obtained," said Stanley Colcombe and Arthur F. Kramer at the University of Illinois. "Most important, fitness training was found to have robust but selective benefits for cognition, with the largest fitness-induced benefits...
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