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Seram, Kuburan Massal di Dasar Kapel RS Jiwa
Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) adalah seorang ballerina profesional di kota New York. Suatu hari, ia terpilih untuk memerankan Swan Queen dalam sebuah pertunjukan balet yang paling populer, yakni Swan Lake.
Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) adalah seorang ballerina profesional di kota New York. Suatu hari, ia terpilih untuk memerankan Swan Queen dalam sebuah pertunjukan balet yang paling populer, yakni Swan Lake.
Tips dan Trik Menggoda Bayi Agar Bisa Tertawa
Beberapa bayi memang pada dasarnya sudah sangat ramah dan senang senyum. Tetapi, sebagian lagi butuh sedikit "godaan" untuk membuatnya tertawa. Berikut adalah hal-hal yang bisa bikin bayi tertawa lepas.
Beberapa bayi memang pada dasarnya sudah sangat ramah dan senang senyum. Tetapi, sebagian lagi butuh sedikit "godaan" untuk membuatnya tertawa. Berikut adalah hal-hal yang bisa bikin bayi tertawa lepas.
Rainbow Tower looms large in Waikiki vision
The city within a city, or resort within a resort, as it might prefer to be known, that is Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki turns 50 next year, but its most iconic feature is a bit younger than that. The 31-story Rainbow Tower, named for its colorful, multistory mosaics, opened in 1968.
Dan Steigelman of Vacaville and Geraldine Picazo of Antioch, who says she has a timeshare next door at the 'Ilikai, quickly identified the tower and its construction date, the subject of last Sunday's Photo Quiz. "We try to visit O'ahu every year. We love it there," Geraldine added.
Of course, those who remember the days of low-rise hotels -- or none at all -- may not have fond feelings about the tower, which wasn't the first in Waikiki but was far from the last. Michael Cordova of San Francisco had this charitable perspective: "Nothing better then floating on a $1.98 floaty bed from ABC in the lagoon and looking up at the tower. Even better when you have had a few lava flows by 11 a.m. and looking up, yeah? Love it or hate it, it always says ALOHA!"
Beverly Russell of San Ramon stayed there in 1989 "when we took our girls to Hawaii their first time." Her own first trip to Hawai'i in 1957 was pretty special: "My parents cruised there on one of the Matson Line ships. Jerry Lewis was also on board. We stayed at the original Hawaiian Village where there were actual 'huts' that were rooms."
The timeline is a little complicated because Hilton Hawaiian Village is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a Hilton property in 2011; the thatched-roof cottages that Russell remembers were built in 1955, a year after Henry Kaiser and Fritz Burns had purchased the original Niumalu Hotel (opened in 1928) on eight oceanfront acres. The first tower, now called the Ali'i Tower opened in 1957, followed by two more before Conrad Hilton gained a majority stake.
In 1968, the Rainbow Tower opened with what is called "the world's largest ceramic tile mosaic"; more than 16,000 tiles form rainbows 286 feet tall by 26 feet wide, on either end of the tower. If you haven't seen it in person, then you might have spotted it on the new "Hawaii Five-O." It's definitely hard to miss.
Dan Steigelman of Vacaville and Geraldine Picazo of Antioch, who says she has a timeshare next door at the 'Ilikai, quickly identified the tower and its construction date, the subject of last Sunday's Photo Quiz. "We try to visit O'ahu every year. We love it there," Geraldine added.
Of course, those who remember the days of low-rise hotels -- or none at all -- may not have fond feelings about the tower, which wasn't the first in Waikiki but was far from the last. Michael Cordova of San Francisco had this charitable perspective: "Nothing better then floating on a $1.98 floaty bed from ABC in the lagoon and looking up at the tower. Even better when you have had a few lava flows by 11 a.m. and looking up, yeah? Love it or hate it, it always says ALOHA!"
Beverly Russell of San Ramon stayed there in 1989 "when we took our girls to Hawaii their first time." Her own first trip to Hawai'i in 1957 was pretty special: "My parents cruised there on one of the Matson Line ships. Jerry Lewis was also on board. We stayed at the original Hawaiian Village where there were actual 'huts' that were rooms."
The timeline is a little complicated because Hilton Hawaiian Village is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a Hilton property in 2011; the thatched-roof cottages that Russell remembers were built in 1955, a year after Henry Kaiser and Fritz Burns had purchased the original Niumalu Hotel (opened in 1928) on eight oceanfront acres. The first tower, now called the Ali'i Tower opened in 1957, followed by two more before Conrad Hilton gained a majority stake.
In 1968, the Rainbow Tower opened with what is called "the world's largest ceramic tile mosaic"; more than 16,000 tiles form rainbows 286 feet tall by 26 feet wide, on either end of the tower. If you haven't seen it in person, then you might have spotted it on the new "Hawaii Five-O." It's definitely hard to miss.
The city within a city, or resort within a resort, as it might prefer to be known, that is Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki turns 50 next year, but its most iconic feature is a bit younger than that. The 31-story Rainbow Tower, named for its colorful, multistory mosaics, opened in 1968.
Dan Steigelman of Vacaville and Geraldine Picazo of Antioch, who says she has a timeshare next door at the 'Ilikai, quickly identified the tower and its construction date, the subject of last Sunday's Photo Quiz. "We try to visit O'ahu every year. We love it there," Geraldine added.
Of course, those who remember the days of low-rise hotels -- or none at all -- may not have fond feelings about the tower, which wasn't the first in Waikiki but was far from the last. Michael Cordova of San Francisco had this charitable perspective: "Nothing better then floating on a $1.98 floaty bed from ABC in the lagoon and looking up at the tower. Even better when you have had a few lava flows by 11 a.m. and looking up, yeah? Love it or hate it, it always says ALOHA!"
Beverly Russell of San Ramon stayed there in 1989 "when we took our girls to Hawaii their first time." Her own first trip to Hawai'i in 1957 was pretty special: "My parents cruised there on one of the Matson Line ships. Jerry Lewis was also on board. We stayed at the original Hawaiian Village where there were actual 'huts' that were rooms."
The timeline is a little complicated because Hilton Hawaiian Village is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a Hilton property in 2011; the thatched-roof cottages that Russell remembers were built in 1955, a year after Henry Kaiser and Fritz Burns had purchased the original Niumalu Hotel (opened in 1928) on eight oceanfront acres. The first tower, now called the Ali'i Tower opened in 1957, followed by two more before Conrad Hilton gained a majority stake.
In 1968, the Rainbow Tower opened with what is called "the world's largest ceramic tile mosaic"; more than 16,000 tiles form rainbows 286 feet tall by 26 feet wide, on either end of the tower. If you haven't seen it in person, then you might have spotted it on the new "Hawaii Five-O." It's definitely hard to miss.
Dan Steigelman of Vacaville and Geraldine Picazo of Antioch, who says she has a timeshare next door at the 'Ilikai, quickly identified the tower and its construction date, the subject of last Sunday's Photo Quiz. "We try to visit O'ahu every year. We love it there," Geraldine added.
Of course, those who remember the days of low-rise hotels -- or none at all -- may not have fond feelings about the tower, which wasn't the first in Waikiki but was far from the last. Michael Cordova of San Francisco had this charitable perspective: "Nothing better then floating on a $1.98 floaty bed from ABC in the lagoon and looking up at the tower. Even better when you have had a few lava flows by 11 a.m. and looking up, yeah? Love it or hate it, it always says ALOHA!"
Beverly Russell of San Ramon stayed there in 1989 "when we took our girls to Hawaii their first time." Her own first trip to Hawai'i in 1957 was pretty special: "My parents cruised there on one of the Matson Line ships. Jerry Lewis was also on board. We stayed at the original Hawaiian Village where there were actual 'huts' that were rooms."
The timeline is a little complicated because Hilton Hawaiian Village is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a Hilton property in 2011; the thatched-roof cottages that Russell remembers were built in 1955, a year after Henry Kaiser and Fritz Burns had purchased the original Niumalu Hotel (opened in 1928) on eight oceanfront acres. The first tower, now called the Ali'i Tower opened in 1957, followed by two more before Conrad Hilton gained a majority stake.
In 1968, the Rainbow Tower opened with what is called "the world's largest ceramic tile mosaic"; more than 16,000 tiles form rainbows 286 feet tall by 26 feet wide, on either end of the tower. If you haven't seen it in person, then you might have spotted it on the new "Hawaii Five-O." It's definitely hard to miss.
100 whales die in New Zealand mass stranding
More than 100 pilot whales died in a mass stranding at a remote New Zealand beach, conservation officials said Monday.
Hikers on Sunday reported finding 107 whales beached on Stewart Island, off the South Island's southwest coast, a Department of Conservation (DoC) spokesman said.
He said some of the whales were already dead and DOC rangers had to euthanise the 48 remaining survivors as there was no prospect of refloating them.
"We were quickly aware that it would be at least 10 to 12 hours before we could attempt to refloat them and that given the hot, dry conditions many more would soon perish," he said.
The spokesman said a storm was also bearing down on the beach near Mason Bay where the whales were stranded, making it too dangerous to try to get them back into the sea.
"We were worried we would be endangering the lives of staff and volunteers," he said.
Pilot whales up to six metres (20 feet) long are the most common species of whale seen in New Zealand waters.
Mass strandings are common on the country's rugged coast. Earlier this month, 14 died after beaching near the South Island tourist city of Nelson and 24 perished last month near Cape Reinga in the country's far north.
Scientists are unsure why pilot whales beach themselves, although they speculate it may occur when their sonar becomes scrambled in shallow water or when a sick member of the pod heads for shore and others follow.
Source :
http://news.yahoo.com/
Hikers on Sunday reported finding 107 whales beached on Stewart Island, off the South Island's southwest coast, a Department of Conservation (DoC) spokesman said.
He said some of the whales were already dead and DOC rangers had to euthanise the 48 remaining survivors as there was no prospect of refloating them.
"We were quickly aware that it would be at least 10 to 12 hours before we could attempt to refloat them and that given the hot, dry conditions many more would soon perish," he said.
The spokesman said a storm was also bearing down on the beach near Mason Bay where the whales were stranded, making it too dangerous to try to get them back into the sea.
"We were worried we would be endangering the lives of staff and volunteers," he said.
Pilot whales up to six metres (20 feet) long are the most common species of whale seen in New Zealand waters.
Mass strandings are common on the country's rugged coast. Earlier this month, 14 died after beaching near the South Island tourist city of Nelson and 24 perished last month near Cape Reinga in the country's far north.
Scientists are unsure why pilot whales beach themselves, although they speculate it may occur when their sonar becomes scrambled in shallow water or when a sick member of the pod heads for shore and others follow.
Source :
http://news.yahoo.com/
More than 100 pilot whales died in a mass stranding at a remote New Zealand beach, conservation officials said Monday.
Hikers on Sunday reported finding 107 whales beached on Stewart Island, off the South Island's southwest coast, a Department of Conservation (DoC) spokesman said.
He said some of the whales were already dead and DOC rangers had to euthanise the 48 remaining survivors as there was no prospect of refloating them.
"We were quickly aware that it would be at least 10 to 12 hours before we could attempt to refloat them and that given the hot, dry conditions many more would soon perish," he said.
The spokesman said a storm was also bearing down on the beach near Mason Bay where the whales were stranded, making it too dangerous to try to get them back into the sea.
"We were worried we would be endangering the lives of staff and volunteers," he said.
Pilot whales up to six metres (20 feet) long are the most common species of whale seen in New Zealand waters.
Mass strandings are common on the country's rugged coast. Earlier this month, 14 died after beaching near the South Island tourist city of Nelson and 24 perished last month near Cape Reinga in the country's far north.
Scientists are unsure why pilot whales beach themselves, although they speculate it may occur when their sonar becomes scrambled in shallow water or when a sick member of the pod heads for shore and others follow.
Source :
http://news.yahoo.com/
Hikers on Sunday reported finding 107 whales beached on Stewart Island, off the South Island's southwest coast, a Department of Conservation (DoC) spokesman said.
He said some of the whales were already dead and DOC rangers had to euthanise the 48 remaining survivors as there was no prospect of refloating them.
"We were quickly aware that it would be at least 10 to 12 hours before we could attempt to refloat them and that given the hot, dry conditions many more would soon perish," he said.
The spokesman said a storm was also bearing down on the beach near Mason Bay where the whales were stranded, making it too dangerous to try to get them back into the sea.
"We were worried we would be endangering the lives of staff and volunteers," he said.
Pilot whales up to six metres (20 feet) long are the most common species of whale seen in New Zealand waters.
Mass strandings are common on the country's rugged coast. Earlier this month, 14 died after beaching near the South Island tourist city of Nelson and 24 perished last month near Cape Reinga in the country's far north.
Scientists are unsure why pilot whales beach themselves, although they speculate it may occur when their sonar becomes scrambled in shallow water or when a sick member of the pod heads for shore and others follow.
Source :
http://news.yahoo.com/
FACT CHECK: Mass bird, fish deaths occur regularly
First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 crabs in Britain and other places across the world.
Blogs connected the deadly dots, joking about the "aflockalypse" while others saw real signs of something sinister, either biblical or environmental.
The reality, say biologists, is that these mass die-offs happen all the time and usually are unrelated.
Federal records show they happen on average every other day somewhere in North America. Usually, we don't notice them and don't try to link them to each other.
"They generally fly under the radar," said ornithologist John Wiens, chief scientist at the California research institution PRBO Conservation Science.
Since the 1970s, the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin has tracked mass deaths among birds, fish and other critters, said wildlife disease specialist LeAnn White. At times the sky and the streams just turn deadly. Sometimes it's disease, sometimes pollution. Other times it's just a mystery.
In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America and that's probably a dramatic undercount, White said. The list includes 900 some turkey vultures that seemed to drown and starve in the Florida Keys, 4,300 ducks killed by parasites in Minnesota, 1,500 salamanders done in by a virus in Idaho, 2,000 bats that died of rabies in Texas, and the still mysterious death of 2,750 sea birds in California.
On average, 163 such events are reported to the federal government each year, according to USGS records. And there have been much larger die-offs than the 3,000 blackbirds in Arkansas. Twice in the summer of 1996, more than 100,000 ducks died of botulism in Canada.
"Depending on the species, these things don't even get reported," White said.
Weather — cold and wet weather like in Arkansas New Year's Eve when the birds fell out of the sky — is often associated with mass bird deaths, ornithologists say. Pollution, parasites and disease also cause mass deaths. Some are even blaming fireworks for the blackbird deaths.
So what's happening this time?
Blame technology, says famed Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. With the Internet, cell phones and worldwide communications, people are noticing events, connecting the dots more.
"This instant and global communication, it's just a human instinct to read mystery and portents of dangers and wondrous things in events that are unusual," Wilson told The Associated Press on Thursday. "Not to worry, these are not portents that the world is about to come to an end."
Wilson and the others say instant communications — especially when people can whip out smart phones to take pictures of critter carcasses and then post them on the Internet — is giving a skewed view of what is happening in the environment.
The irony is that mass die-offs — usually of animals with large populations — are getting the attention while a larger but slower mass extinction of thousands of species because of human activity is ignored, Wilson said.
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AP Researcher Julie Reed Bell contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com
The reality, say biologists, is that these mass die-offs happen all the time and usually are unrelated.
Federal records show they happen on average every other day somewhere in North America. Usually, we don't notice them and don't try to link them to each other.
"They generally fly under the radar," said ornithologist John Wiens, chief scientist at the California research institution PRBO Conservation Science.
Since the 1970s, the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin has tracked mass deaths among birds, fish and other critters, said wildlife disease specialist LeAnn White. At times the sky and the streams just turn deadly. Sometimes it's disease, sometimes pollution. Other times it's just a mystery.
In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America and that's probably a dramatic undercount, White said. The list includes 900 some turkey vultures that seemed to drown and starve in the Florida Keys, 4,300 ducks killed by parasites in Minnesota, 1,500 salamanders done in by a virus in Idaho, 2,000 bats that died of rabies in Texas, and the still mysterious death of 2,750 sea birds in California.
On average, 163 such events are reported to the federal government each year, according to USGS records. And there have been much larger die-offs than the 3,000 blackbirds in Arkansas. Twice in the summer of 1996, more than 100,000 ducks died of botulism in Canada.
"Depending on the species, these things don't even get reported," White said.
Weather — cold and wet weather like in Arkansas New Year's Eve when the birds fell out of the sky — is often associated with mass bird deaths, ornithologists say. Pollution, parasites and disease also cause mass deaths. Some are even blaming fireworks for the blackbird deaths.
So what's happening this time?
Blame technology, says famed Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. With the Internet, cell phones and worldwide communications, people are noticing events, connecting the dots more.
"This instant and global communication, it's just a human instinct to read mystery and portents of dangers and wondrous things in events that are unusual," Wilson told The Associated Press on Thursday. "Not to worry, these are not portents that the world is about to come to an end."
Wilson and the others say instant communications — especially when people can whip out smart phones to take pictures of critter carcasses and then post them on the Internet — is giving a skewed view of what is happening in the environment.
The irony is that mass die-offs — usually of animals with large populations — are getting the attention while a larger but slower mass extinction of thousands of species because of human activity is ignored, Wilson said.
___
AP Researcher Julie Reed Bell contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com
First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 crabs in Britain and other places across the world.
Blogs connected the deadly dots, joking about the "aflockalypse" while others saw real signs of something sinister, either biblical or environmental.
The reality, say biologists, is that these mass die-offs happen all the time and usually are unrelated.
Federal records show they happen on average every other day somewhere in North America. Usually, we don't notice them and don't try to link them to each other.
"They generally fly under the radar," said ornithologist John Wiens, chief scientist at the California research institution PRBO Conservation Science.
Since the 1970s, the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin has tracked mass deaths among birds, fish and other critters, said wildlife disease specialist LeAnn White. At times the sky and the streams just turn deadly. Sometimes it's disease, sometimes pollution. Other times it's just a mystery.
In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America and that's probably a dramatic undercount, White said. The list includes 900 some turkey vultures that seemed to drown and starve in the Florida Keys, 4,300 ducks killed by parasites in Minnesota, 1,500 salamanders done in by a virus in Idaho, 2,000 bats that died of rabies in Texas, and the still mysterious death of 2,750 sea birds in California.
On average, 163 such events are reported to the federal government each year, according to USGS records. And there have been much larger die-offs than the 3,000 blackbirds in Arkansas. Twice in the summer of 1996, more than 100,000 ducks died of botulism in Canada.
"Depending on the species, these things don't even get reported," White said.
Weather — cold and wet weather like in Arkansas New Year's Eve when the birds fell out of the sky — is often associated with mass bird deaths, ornithologists say. Pollution, parasites and disease also cause mass deaths. Some are even blaming fireworks for the blackbird deaths.
So what's happening this time?
Blame technology, says famed Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. With the Internet, cell phones and worldwide communications, people are noticing events, connecting the dots more.
"This instant and global communication, it's just a human instinct to read mystery and portents of dangers and wondrous things in events that are unusual," Wilson told The Associated Press on Thursday. "Not to worry, these are not portents that the world is about to come to an end."
Wilson and the others say instant communications — especially when people can whip out smart phones to take pictures of critter carcasses and then post them on the Internet — is giving a skewed view of what is happening in the environment.
The irony is that mass die-offs — usually of animals with large populations — are getting the attention while a larger but slower mass extinction of thousands of species because of human activity is ignored, Wilson said.
___
AP Researcher Julie Reed Bell contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com
The reality, say biologists, is that these mass die-offs happen all the time and usually are unrelated.
Federal records show they happen on average every other day somewhere in North America. Usually, we don't notice them and don't try to link them to each other.
"They generally fly under the radar," said ornithologist John Wiens, chief scientist at the California research institution PRBO Conservation Science.
Since the 1970s, the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin has tracked mass deaths among birds, fish and other critters, said wildlife disease specialist LeAnn White. At times the sky and the streams just turn deadly. Sometimes it's disease, sometimes pollution. Other times it's just a mystery.
In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America and that's probably a dramatic undercount, White said. The list includes 900 some turkey vultures that seemed to drown and starve in the Florida Keys, 4,300 ducks killed by parasites in Minnesota, 1,500 salamanders done in by a virus in Idaho, 2,000 bats that died of rabies in Texas, and the still mysterious death of 2,750 sea birds in California.
On average, 163 such events are reported to the federal government each year, according to USGS records. And there have been much larger die-offs than the 3,000 blackbirds in Arkansas. Twice in the summer of 1996, more than 100,000 ducks died of botulism in Canada.
"Depending on the species, these things don't even get reported," White said.
Weather — cold and wet weather like in Arkansas New Year's Eve when the birds fell out of the sky — is often associated with mass bird deaths, ornithologists say. Pollution, parasites and disease also cause mass deaths. Some are even blaming fireworks for the blackbird deaths.
So what's happening this time?
Blame technology, says famed Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. With the Internet, cell phones and worldwide communications, people are noticing events, connecting the dots more.
"This instant and global communication, it's just a human instinct to read mystery and portents of dangers and wondrous things in events that are unusual," Wilson told The Associated Press on Thursday. "Not to worry, these are not portents that the world is about to come to an end."
Wilson and the others say instant communications — especially when people can whip out smart phones to take pictures of critter carcasses and then post them on the Internet — is giving a skewed view of what is happening in the environment.
The irony is that mass die-offs — usually of animals with large populations — are getting the attention while a larger but slower mass extinction of thousands of species because of human activity is ignored, Wilson said.
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AP Researcher Julie Reed Bell contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com
New Research: Walking 5 Miles a Week Slows Progression of Alzheimer’s
According to the results of a new study, walking five miles a week may help slow the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease in adults. The study also suggests that walking could help those suffering from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), a condition that is similar to Alzheimer’s, yet not as severe.
The Study
This was a long, ongoing study that lasted twenty years. It consisted of a total of 426 people, including 299 healthy adults with an average age of 78, as well as 127 cognitively impaired adults with an average age of 81. The cognitively impaired group breaks down to 44 adults with Alzheimer’s disease and 83 adults with MCI.
During the 20-year study, Dr. Cyrus Raji from the Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania analyzed the relationship between physical activity and brain structure for both groups of adults. Dr. Raji observed how far each of the patients walked every week.
After ten years, all the patients in the study underwent 3D MRI exams to get a better look at their brain volume. Brain volume is a vital sign of how healthy your brain is. When brain volume decreases, it means that brain cells are dying off. When brain volume remains high, it means that brain cells are not dying and optimal brain health is maintained.
In addition to identifying changes in brain volume via 3D MRI scans, researchers also gave patients mini-mental state exams (MMSE) to help track cognitive decline over the course of five years. Researchers then correlated physical activity levels with their MRI & MMSE results.
In every case, researchers found that the more physical activity patients did, the more brain volume they had. They came to the conclusion that cognitively impaired patients need to walk at least 5 miles a week, roughly 58 city blocks, to maintain brain volume and slow down further cognitive decline. Researchers added that healthy adults need to walk at least six miles a week, roughly 72 city blocks, to maintain brain volume and considerably reduce their chances of developing Alzheimer’s.
What We Can Learn From This Study
We’ve known for a long time that frequent exercise is important for health. But after reviewing the results of this new study, staying active and getting plenty of cardio exercise is more important than ever, especially for senior citizens. It’s not always easy, but try going for a walk at least once a day. Start off slow and work your way up to walking more and more.
Source: http://nutritionhealthfitness.com/
The Study
This was a long, ongoing study that lasted twenty years. It consisted of a total of 426 people, including 299 healthy adults with an average age of 78, as well as 127 cognitively impaired adults with an average age of 81. The cognitively impaired group breaks down to 44 adults with Alzheimer’s disease and 83 adults with MCI.
During the 20-year study, Dr. Cyrus Raji from the Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania analyzed the relationship between physical activity and brain structure for both groups of adults. Dr. Raji observed how far each of the patients walked every week.
After ten years, all the patients in the study underwent 3D MRI exams to get a better look at their brain volume. Brain volume is a vital sign of how healthy your brain is. When brain volume decreases, it means that brain cells are dying off. When brain volume remains high, it means that brain cells are not dying and optimal brain health is maintained.
In addition to identifying changes in brain volume via 3D MRI scans, researchers also gave patients mini-mental state exams (MMSE) to help track cognitive decline over the course of five years. Researchers then correlated physical activity levels with their MRI & MMSE results.
In every case, researchers found that the more physical activity patients did, the more brain volume they had. They came to the conclusion that cognitively impaired patients need to walk at least 5 miles a week, roughly 58 city blocks, to maintain brain volume and slow down further cognitive decline. Researchers added that healthy adults need to walk at least six miles a week, roughly 72 city blocks, to maintain brain volume and considerably reduce their chances of developing Alzheimer’s.
Dr. Cyrus Raji, Ph.D., from the Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania:
“We found that walking five miles per week protects the brain structure over 10 years in people with Alzheimer’s and MCI, especially in areas of the brain’s key memory and learning centers. We also found that these people had a slower decline in memory loss over five years. Alzheimer’s is a devastating illness, and unfortunately, walking is not a cure, but walking can improve your brain’s resistance to the disease and reduce memory loss over time.”
What We Can Learn From This Study
We’ve known for a long time that frequent exercise is important for health. But after reviewing the results of this new study, staying active and getting plenty of cardio exercise is more important than ever, especially for senior citizens. It’s not always easy, but try going for a walk at least once a day. Start off slow and work your way up to walking more and more.
Source: http://nutritionhealthfitness.com/
According to the results of a new study, walking five miles a week may help slow the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease in adults. The study also suggests that walking could help those suffering from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), a condition that is similar to Alzheimer’s, yet not as severe.
The Study
This was a long, ongoing study that lasted twenty years. It consisted of a total of 426 people, including 299 healthy adults with an average age of 78, as well as 127 cognitively impaired adults with an average age of 81. The cognitively impaired group breaks down to 44 adults with Alzheimer’s disease and 83 adults with MCI.
During the 20-year study, Dr. Cyrus Raji from the Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania analyzed the relationship between physical activity and brain structure for both groups of adults. Dr. Raji observed how far each of the patients walked every week.
After ten years, all the patients in the study underwent 3D MRI exams to get a better look at their brain volume. Brain volume is a vital sign of how healthy your brain is. When brain volume decreases, it means that brain cells are dying off. When brain volume remains high, it means that brain cells are not dying and optimal brain health is maintained.
In addition to identifying changes in brain volume via 3D MRI scans, researchers also gave patients mini-mental state exams (MMSE) to help track cognitive decline over the course of five years. Researchers then correlated physical activity levels with their MRI & MMSE results.
In every case, researchers found that the more physical activity patients did, the more brain volume they had. They came to the conclusion that cognitively impaired patients need to walk at least 5 miles a week, roughly 58 city blocks, to maintain brain volume and slow down further cognitive decline. Researchers added that healthy adults need to walk at least six miles a week, roughly 72 city blocks, to maintain brain volume and considerably reduce their chances of developing Alzheimer’s.
What We Can Learn From This Study
We’ve known for a long time that frequent exercise is important for health. But after reviewing the results of this new study, staying active and getting plenty of cardio exercise is more important than ever, especially for senior citizens. It’s not always easy, but try going for a walk at least once a day. Start off slow and work your way up to walking more and more.
Source: http://nutritionhealthfitness.com/
The Study
This was a long, ongoing study that lasted twenty years. It consisted of a total of 426 people, including 299 healthy adults with an average age of 78, as well as 127 cognitively impaired adults with an average age of 81. The cognitively impaired group breaks down to 44 adults with Alzheimer’s disease and 83 adults with MCI.
During the 20-year study, Dr. Cyrus Raji from the Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania analyzed the relationship between physical activity and brain structure for both groups of adults. Dr. Raji observed how far each of the patients walked every week.
After ten years, all the patients in the study underwent 3D MRI exams to get a better look at their brain volume. Brain volume is a vital sign of how healthy your brain is. When brain volume decreases, it means that brain cells are dying off. When brain volume remains high, it means that brain cells are not dying and optimal brain health is maintained.
In addition to identifying changes in brain volume via 3D MRI scans, researchers also gave patients mini-mental state exams (MMSE) to help track cognitive decline over the course of five years. Researchers then correlated physical activity levels with their MRI & MMSE results.
In every case, researchers found that the more physical activity patients did, the more brain volume they had. They came to the conclusion that cognitively impaired patients need to walk at least 5 miles a week, roughly 58 city blocks, to maintain brain volume and slow down further cognitive decline. Researchers added that healthy adults need to walk at least six miles a week, roughly 72 city blocks, to maintain brain volume and considerably reduce their chances of developing Alzheimer’s.
Dr. Cyrus Raji, Ph.D., from the Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania:
“We found that walking five miles per week protects the brain structure over 10 years in people with Alzheimer’s and MCI, especially in areas of the brain’s key memory and learning centers. We also found that these people had a slower decline in memory loss over five years. Alzheimer’s is a devastating illness, and unfortunately, walking is not a cure, but walking can improve your brain’s resistance to the disease and reduce memory loss over time.”
What We Can Learn From This Study
We’ve known for a long time that frequent exercise is important for health. But after reviewing the results of this new study, staying active and getting plenty of cardio exercise is more important than ever, especially for senior citizens. It’s not always easy, but try going for a walk at least once a day. Start off slow and work your way up to walking more and more.
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