January 31, 2011

Are You A Gym Rat?

Lifting-weights-mouse Any budding zoologists out there?

If so, you'll know that my weight lifting, furry friend is neither rat nor mouse.

If you want to be able to positively identify what it is, retain the information, and be able to recall it, hmmm, lets say as far out as two days from now, get thee to the gym.

But, say researchers from Brazil, get off the treadmill, elliptical machine or stair stepper and hoist those weights instead, if you want to improve brain functioning.

Let's consider how this research was conducted. "Weights were secured to the tails of a group of rats then the researchers had them climb a ladder,  five sessions of this activity a week. Other rats on the same schedule ran on a treadmill, and a third group just sat around." 

Secured weights to the tails of rats? 

The conclusion of this study, as well as a similar study conducted in Japan, was that endurance and weight training seemed to make the rats smarter. Cognitive functioning improved.

Trying to verify this, I decided to see who might be the next presiding leader of the organization called Mensa, the high IQ society.

Bodybuilder-1 And there you have it. 

 

 

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