Healthy body makes for better students

A new study out of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that the children who could run for longer periods of time on the treadmill had thinner sections of gray matter in the front of their brains  (which actually signifies more brain maturation) than those with lower stamina. These children also performed better on a math […]

In a paper published in Pediatrics, researchers report that kids 7 to 9 years old who attended a daily, after-school fitness program showed an increased ability to pay attention, avoid distraction and switch between tasks: http://kch.illinois.edu/research/labs/neurocognitive-kinesiology/files/Articles/Hillman_2014_Pediatrics_FITKids.pdf http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-fit-kids-think-smarter-20140929-story.html

Psychologist Ken Pope has collected data from a variety of sources to explore exercise’s psychological effects on cognition, psychological disorders, psychological health, and quality of life. http://kspope.com/ethics/exercise-meta-analyses.php