Mind


Exercise

     Remember your brain needs exercise

                                       a mind in a marvellous thing
    Yet another body component that subscribes to the adage
     Use it or Loose it.




Read, write, do crossword or Soduko puzzles, master a new computer program another language. The list is endless. A healthy mind and a healthy heart are interrelated. High Cholesterol affects both. A well functioning heart supplies blood to the brain. Proper blood pressure to the brain means that it is never starved for a blood supply.                  

   Free Brain Exercises
 Many of your daily activities may qualify as ways to foster brain development and learning. What is needed is that you do these tasks in a different way.

      Try reading a book while standing on one leg.

      Use your non-dominate hand to eat, brush your teeth, write,
     hammer, turn a screw etc

Focus on the quantity and quality of all of your daily brain development by performing routine tasks in a different way.
                                  
    Take Your Test
    to determine How Fast You Think


Use the 'Down Arrow'
get your test          Cognitive Labs Speed Test
                        

    Brain Age from Nintendo
An expensive alternative requiring Nintendo DS
-but something that can be shared with many members of your family.
Exercise is the key to good health, both for body and mind - and now there's finally a way to make mental exercise simple, fun, even competitive. Inspired by the work of prominent Japanese neuroscientist Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, the Brain Age games feature activities designed to help stimulate your brain and give it the workout it needs like solving simple math problems, counting currency, drawing pictures on the Nintendo DS touch screen, and unscrambling letters.







     Also check out the other topics
    under the Recipes section from the left column