Sue Scheff: Pumping Up your Teen's Brain - Teens and Exercise

Researchers are finding that exercise can not only keep you fit, but make you smarter. A school in Illinois has developed a program that gets students moving and learning. Debbye Turner Bell reports.

CBS - Early Show - Jan. 31, 2009

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4764808n

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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

By Dr. John Medina

Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know—like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best.

How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget—and so important to repeat new knowledge? Is it true that men and women have different brains?

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This book is highly recommend through PE4Life - which promotes physical education with our kids today and much more.

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

In SPARK, John J. Ratey, M.D., embarks upon a fascinating and entertaining journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, which has put this school district of 19,000 kids first in the world of science test scores), SPARK is the first book to explore comprehensively the connection between exercise and the brain. It will change forever the way you think about your morning run---or, for that matter, simply the way you think.

Learn more - type the title of the book in the Amazon Box and also visit http://www.pe4life.org/ - They have been using the Pilot Program with Dr. Ratey called Learning Readiness PE.

You can also listen to Podcast's of interviews with Dr. Ginger Campbell and Dr. Ratey at http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/ - In Episode 33 they explored the key ideas about exercise and the brain. In Episode 45 they talk about ADD/ADHD.

Sue Scheff: PE4Life

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