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...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 those...
...jump-start his creative juices, the Pulitzer winner and best-selling author (Den of Thieves) practices piano for an hour each morning. "The thorniest kind of music, like Bach, is best," he says. "It refreshes the brain because you can't do it unless you exclude everything else and concentrate." To stay creative, he believes, one must cultivate curiosity. "I love reading the paper with an eye to what's missing. I get all kinds of ideas from that...
...words a minute. According to Trevor Moawad, director of mental conditioning for IMG Academies, a leading sports-training facility, that means that for a tennis player competing in a typical 2-hr. match, only about 40 min. are spent on the court contesting points, leaving an hour and 20 min. between points with little to do but talk to oneself. Positive chatter can help the athlete stay focused, but if the conversation strays into fears of failing, then the self-talk can become counterproductive...
Thomas Bausman, 2, and his brother Jake, 10 months, are typical American babies. Every day, Thomas settles down to watch two hours of television, while Jake sits in front of the set for an hour, the national average for their respective ages. Their favorite thing to watch, by far? Baby Einstein. Anita Bausman could not be more pleased with her children's preference. Jake, she reports, learned colors, numbers and his love of robots from the popular videos, which are filled with puppets, animals and moving objects, often set to classical music. "It's not just turning on Nickelodeon," Bausman...
...codirector of the Child Health Institute at the University of Washington, "The more TV babies watch, the more likely they are to have attentional problems later in life." Christakis cites a long-term study that tracked children from age 1 through age 7. It found that for each additional hour of daily TV viewing before age 3, a child's chances of later developing problems paying attention increased...