{"id":3052,"date":"2009-12-19T05:50:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T03:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2015-02-15T00:37:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T05:37:48","slug":"smart-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/smart-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Smart: Get Fit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is true in more ways than one.\u00a0 Getting\/staying fit isn&#8217;t just a smart idea&#8230; according to new research, it may also make you smarter.\u00a0 According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/booster_shots\/2009\/12\/exercise-brain-power-iq-intelligence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LA Times blog &#8220;Booster Shots&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>That dumb jock might be smarter than he looks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>December 18, 2009\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For young men, the fitter you are, the better your brain works.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0 study recently published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences took advantage of data collected on 1.2 million Swedish men born between 1950 and 1976, and found that those in better shape displayed higher intelligence. Note that the findings were based on cardiovascular health, which led to better blood flow, less anxiety and less fatigue. All of these things could help to raise brain power. Muscle mass had nothing to do with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/106\/49\/20906.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the study<\/a>&#8230; and here&#8217;s a reader-friendly synopsis.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably, oh&#8230;. Reason #1,874 why regular exercise is a Good Idea.\u00a0 I know my brain definitely feels more alert when I&#8217;m active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is true in more ways than one.\u00a0 Getting\/staying fit isn&#8217;t just a smart idea&#8230; according to new research, it may also make you smarter.\u00a0 According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,28],"tags":[258,261,610,932,991,1325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8864,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/8864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}