How about Golf and Brain Health
Before all of you jump up and down celebrating another reason to miss work and play 18, let me remind you that this particular blog is speculative with some educated guess mixed in. Having said that, I am happy to for any grant funding to study the effects of playing golf on brain health!
I began to think about the health benefits of golf some time ago, but I grew more interested during a few rounds of the game with my son. As you know, I have proposed and studied five major domains to my brain health lifestyle: these include socialization, mental stimulation (brain fitness, brain games), physical activity, spirituality, and nutrition. Golf certainly includes four of the five components and may include all five.
Golf is a game that is social. In fact, one typically plays the game with another partner and sometimes three other partners. An even more brain healthy opportunity arises when one plays the game alone and is matched with strangers to play the round. This forces a “complex and novel” environment on you that promotes brain health.
Golf is a game that certainly involves physical activity, particularly if you walk and do not ride in a cart. As 25% of the blood from each heartbeat goes to the brain there can be tremendous blood perfusion to the brain during a game of golf. This simply considers the walking and not the swinging and body motion mechanics of the golf swing.
Golf involves mental stimulation in the forms of conversation and story telling with your partners, arithmetic calculations while keeping score which can involve three digits, keeping track of your shots which demands memory, and probably trying to keep track of your partner’s shots so there is no funny business going on. There is also planning, strategy and decision making, judgment, and estimation of distance and space skills involved.
Golf can be a spiritual experience to reduce stress, have fun, slow down, and enjoy nature. Golf courses tend to provide nice scenery and a pleasant surrounding. Golf provides you an opportunity to reflect and to set priorities.
Finally, Golf can include good nutrition if the proper foods and beverages are selected before, during, and after the game. Fruits, vegetables, and fish are always great items in a brain health diet.
I believe golf is a natural activity that provides many aspects of the brain health lifestyle I have discussed and written about. So long as one does not let a poor shot or poor score raise his or her stress level too much!
Hit the links, it might just be good for your brain!
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I’m not sure what I like better: these Dover fixtures or the square ones.
The things I hate about Dovers are that they’re so SLOW at closing and leveling most of the time!
It looks as though Dover came in and modernized a previous elevator, and somehow left the old beep there, while adding their buzz.
Omega-3 fatty acids are supposedly good for the brain- found in nuts and fish. Brain exercises could include: crossword puzzles, sudoku, chess, logic puzzles, riddles, or math problems.
I think these were modernized by montgomery
duel beep? that sounds better than the buzz
This is quite custom.
I heard a new study suggests apple juice makes ya smarter. (( Beer brings on my hay fever allergies.) It make a persons nose stuffy.)) Choclate milk boosts mood as well. Orange juice turns on your bodys mechansim of telling you when your full right away so you don't overeat. Caffienated beverages do in fact boost your focus, but they also make ya shaky and hypertensive. All soda diet er not has acid it would do to drink with straws so as to not eat your teeth away as much. Green and white tea, especially green boost your immune system. Tea with echinacia does as well. That weight loss tea suppresses your hunger. the name escapes me right now. anyway theres a few.
Are you sure that you don't mean "Choline" instead? You can find choline in any health food store.
All of them have some sort of effect, not just the ones after 7. But they are not as bad for you as most people think, but still they are bad.
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I wouldn't think so if you are eating healthy, like getting enough fruits, vegetables and meat (if you are not vegetarian.) All cells produce amino acids when necessary; they get the nutrients they need from the food you eat. So, I'm assuming amino acids are necessary for good brain health. Just make sure you eat right, and it should be okay. Your body will produce them naturally.
There are no pills that work that fast. If you take Vitamin E and all the B-vitamins for a few months you might get increased cognition and memory but studies have shown that even this is minimal.
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