Showing posts with label Stanford Center on Longevity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stanford Center on Longevity. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

AARP Says “Get Moving for a Healthy Brain”




Actually, I fibbed. Margery D. Rosen wrote that headline for the cover article of the September issue of AARP Bulletin.

Her first paragraph grabbed my eyeballs (and didn’t let go until I finished reading): “Rarely do neuroscientists, psychologists and physicians agree unequivocally on anything. But they agree on this; Exercise is the best thing you can do for your brain . ‘If we had a pill that could do what exercise does, its sales would put Viagra’s to shame,’ says Laura L. Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity and author of A long Bright Future.” Here's the link: