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...your mind, it turns out, is to make sure your heart is performing at its best. And there's nothing like physical activity to promote cardiac fitness. For some people, that will mean participating in an aerobics class three or more times a week. For others, walking as fast as they can half an hour a day most days of the week will do the trick. In fact, all other things being equal, people who engage in a wide variety of physical activities?like walking and biking and dancing and swimming?seem to be better protected against cognitive decline than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: Can You Prevent Alzheimer's Disease? | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...money that Abramoff spread across Washington should give them plenty to do. So toxic are any campaign donations tied to him that panicked lawmakers from Hastert ($69,000) to Republican Senator Conrad Burns ($150,000) to Democratic Senator Max Baucus ($18,892) can't give it away to charities fast enough. Even President Bush is giving the American Heart Association the $6,000 that he received from Abramoff, his wife and one of the Indian tribes he represented. (See accompanying story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Bought Washington | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...film version. I was delighted. The four child actors did a splendid job. Corliss should lighten up, take a break from postmodern deconstructionism and take a trip through the magic wardrobe! Despite what Corliss thinks, there is indeed fire, passion and a lot of fun in the film. KEN FAST Derwent, Alta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 16, 2006 | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

EVERYMAN MEALS This plan offers up real food for real people. Here, home cooking is your best friend, and fast food is the devil. Attention, shoppers: cruising the right grocery aisle is the not-so-secret weapon. Steer toward the produce and away from sugary treats. BUZZWORDS: Boot Camp; Pedometer Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: A Feast of Diet Books | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...occurring. After years of practice, hitting a baseball or shooting a basket becomes almost second nature to a professional athlete. So it's easy to think the skill resides in muscle memory. But even those rote actions involve a tremendous amount of mental processing; they are just happening too fast for the athlete to realize they are going on. "It's not the conscious kind of processing, the kind where you're thinking about how to control your body," says Jeff Simons, a sports psychologist at California State University, East Bay. "Our conscious brain cannot keep up with the speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: Getting and Staying in the Zone | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

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