Brain Aerobics

What does one need to do to keep the brain sharp and active?
What miracle cure, special formual, and elixer vitae does the trick?

This report is a potent reminder that the best solution is the common sense solution.

Engage in your life … and you will be better able to engage in your life. It turns out that, just by getting together with your friends, and doing things together, you are toning up your slacking gray matter to cerebral fitness!

“We assessed social integration by marital status, volunteer activities and frequency of contact with children and neighbors,” explained lead researcher Karen Ertel, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.

Her team collected data on almost 17,000 Americans and found that “people who were most socially integrated had memory decline of less than half the rate compared with those who were the least socially integrated,” Ertel said.

The report is published in the May 29 online edition of the American Journal of Public Health.

Get off the couch, turn off your TV, and turn on your life.