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Exercise May Keep Your Brain 10 Years Younger, Study Suggests [Consumer.HealthDay.com]

 

Older adults who exercise regularly could buy an extra decade of good brain functioning, a new study suggests.

The study found that seniors who got moderate to intense exercise retained more of their mental skills over the next five years, versus older adults who got light exercise or none at all.

On average, those less-active seniors showed an extra 10 years of "brain aging," the researchers said.

The findings do not prove that exercise itself slows brain aging, cautioned senior researcher Dr. Clinton Wright, a neurologist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

It's possible, he said, that there are other reasons why active older adults stayed mentally sharper.



[For more of this story, written by Amy Norton, go to http://consumer.healthday.com/...udy-says-709266.html]

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