{"id":436,"date":"2017-07-23T02:49:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T02:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=436"},"modified":"2017-07-26T03:16:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T03:16:04","slug":"how-to-exercise-for-brain-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"How to Exercise for Brain Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>You have many good reasons to become more physically active: Doing so can boost mood, help maintain a healthy weight, and keep muscles strong.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the research on brain health and exercise is focused on aerobics. Yet a recent analysis from the University of Canberra in Australia found that certain nonaerobic activities can also help improve brain function in people over 50.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take a Brisk Walk.<\/strong> If you don\u2019t exercise now, it\u2019s easy to start. Just walk out your door and keep going.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do More Than the Minimum.<\/strong> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that older adults get 150 minutes of this sort of moderately intense aerobic exercise each week, which is five 30-minute workouts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Try Tai Chi.<\/strong> This Chinese martial art, which consists of slow, rhythmic movements, was one of the several types of exercise tied to improved cognitive functioning in the recent Canberra study.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/exercise-fitness\/how-to-exercise-for-brain-health\/\">Consumer Reports<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have many good reasons to become more physically active: Doing so can boost mood, help maintain a healthy weight,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise","tag-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}