Do You Have A Healthy Brain? The Secret to Mental Agility

Written by Catherine Calder


We all know to exercise our bodies to keep fit, but how often do you think about exercising your brain? And what type of exercise does it need anyway? What arerepparttar facts? What isrepparttar 116055 secret to mental agility?

Keeping mentally active will keep your brain in good shape. Getting older does not mean that you have to be forgetful!

Recent research into Alzheimer's disease found that people who were less active betweenrepparttar 116056 ages of 20 and 60 years are almost 4 times more likely to developrepparttar 116057 disease. The brain, likerepparttar 116058 rest ofrepparttar 116059 body, needs to be kept active to keep healthy.

You exercise your body to keep it in shape. Now it has been shown that exercising your brain can keep it in shape too.

That leaves us withrepparttar 116060 question of what to do to keep our brains active. The research discovered that how you spend your leisure time can affectrepparttar 116061 health of your brain.

Leisure activities can be divided into -

Passive activities, which include watching TV, participating in social activities, and listening to music.

Intellectual activities are reading, painting, playing a musical instrument, woodworking.

Physical activities, for example, gardening, playing sport, working out atrepparttar 116062 gym, walking, jogging.

The only 'activity' thatrepparttar 116063 Alzheimer's patients had performed more frequently thanrepparttar 116064 control group was watching TV!

The research team was lead by Robert Friedland, professor of neurology, University Hospitals of Cleveland. He said "A relative increase inrepparttar 116065 amount of time devoted to intellectual activities from early adulthood (ages 20-39) to mid-adulthood (ages 40-60) was associated with a significant decrease inrepparttar 116066 probability of having Alzheimer's disease later in life."

The symbolism of double fishes

Written by Jakob Jelling


In feng shui and for oriental traditions,repparttar fish is a very symbolic creature which represents abundance and wealth. Having fishes inrepparttar 116054 kitchen is a great way of helping abundance and provisions to be always present inrepparttar 116055 house. Feng shui practitioners recommend having fishes and double fishes inrepparttar 116056 kitchen orrepparttar 116057 living room in order to make sure that those who inhabitrepparttar 116058 house will always have what they need.

Yu, which means fish, phonetically matchesrepparttar 116059 word for abundance, which might be a coincidence but is very symbolic as well. It is very common to see objects representing fishes in many Chinese houses, most ofrepparttar 116060 times inrepparttar 116061 kitchen but sometimes inrepparttar 116062 living rooms as well.

Fishes are abundant inrepparttar 116063 sea and provide us an unlimited source of nourishment and supplies. It is a natural source of human sustenance which can be found in abundant amounts. Therefore, they are an abundant creature itself and its symbolism might be highly due to this aspect of their nature.

Besides all what was mentioned above, a fish is also seen as a symbol of fertility. Fishes have notable abilities for reproduction which makes them an ideal icon for symbolizing fertility. They are always together and travel as a team which makes them also symbolize unity and marriage.

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