08-23-2014, 05:06 AM
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
This will help your business more than you can imagine if you create a habit out of it. I consider this one of the major keys to success. - Non Conformer
Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss,
sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by
elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is
incontrovertible: aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for
peak performance.
In SPARK, John Ratey, MD embarks upon a fascinating journey through the
mind-body connection, illustrating that exercise is truly our best defense
against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to menopause to
Alzheimer's. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary
fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, that has put the local 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.
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"This is my self-help book for the season."—Houston Chronicle
"At last a book that explains to me why I feel so much better if I run in the morning!"—Dr. Susan M. Love, author of Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book and Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book
"SPARK is just what we need. In mental health, exercise is a growth stock and Ratey is our best broker."—Ken Duckworth, M.D., Medical Director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness
"This book is a real turning point that explains something I've been trying
to figure out for years. Exercise is not simply necessary, as Dr. Ratey
clearly shows, it's medicine."—Greg LeMond, three-time winner of the Tour de France
"SPARK is mercifully short on Ivy League med-school-speak. And it may just spell the end of all dumb-jock jokes."—Outside Magazine
"I enthusiastically recommend this book...If your goal is to live a long and healthy life to the fullest then Spark should be required reading."—Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., "Father of Aerobics"
"Bravo! An extremely important book. What Cooper did decades ago for exercise
and the heart, Ratey does in SPARK for exercise and the brain. An
utterly convincing and brilliantly documented ground-breaking work...So,
get moving! Your brain will thank you and repay you many times over."—Edward Hallowell, M.D., The Hallowell Centers
"Ratey has culled the latest science and found that a regular workout can help build a better, faster brain."—USA Today
About the Author
John Ratey, M.D. is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of numerous bestselling and groundbreaking books, including Driven to Distraction and A User's Guide to the Brain. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has a private practice. Eric Hagerman is a former editor of Popular Science and Outside. His work has been featured in The Best American Sports Writing 2004, Men's Journal, and PLAY.
"This book explains in clear terms the role exercise plays in our mental
processes. Moving our muscles produces proteins that play roles in our
highest thought processes. Ratey says, "thinking is the internalization
of movement." He illustrates this with the story of the sea squirt
that hatches with a rudimentary spinal cord and 300 brain cells. It has
only hours to find a spot of coral on which to put down roots or die.
When it does put down roots, it eats its brain. According to Ratey only
a moving animal needs a brain.
He begins with the value exercise has for the learning process in high school
students: improved academic performance, alertness, attention and motivation.
He cites studies that say we can alter our mental states by physically moving.
He said depression is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. He
then presents a chapter where depression is relieved in case studies by
exercise.
Among the areas Ratey covers are: stress, depression, ADD, and aging. This
book is a great motivator for exercise.
However, Ratey's work was preceded by Glenn Doman's. Doman advocated
exercise for brain injured children in the 1950s when the only 'treatment' was to
institutionalize them. He later started a `super babies' program. Both the educational
and medical establishments attacked and marginalized Doman's work."
Get It:
add some reputation, make mirrors, discuss it and USE it.
This will help your business more than you can imagine if you create a habit out of it. I consider this one of the major keys to success. - Non Conformer
Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss,
sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by
elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is
incontrovertible: aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for
peak performance.
In SPARK, John Ratey, MD embarks upon a fascinating journey through the
mind-body connection, illustrating that exercise is truly our best defense
against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to menopause to
Alzheimer's. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary
fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, that has put the local 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.
"This is my self-help book for the season."—Houston Chronicle
"At last a book that explains to me why I feel so much better if I run in the morning!"—Dr. Susan M. Love, author of Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book and Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book
"SPARK is just what we need. In mental health, exercise is a growth stock and Ratey is our best broker."—Ken Duckworth, M.D., Medical Director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness
"This book is a real turning point that explains something I've been trying
to figure out for years. Exercise is not simply necessary, as Dr. Ratey
clearly shows, it's medicine."—Greg LeMond, three-time winner of the Tour de France
"SPARK is mercifully short on Ivy League med-school-speak. And it may just spell the end of all dumb-jock jokes."—Outside Magazine
"I enthusiastically recommend this book...If your goal is to live a long and healthy life to the fullest then Spark should be required reading."—Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., "Father of Aerobics"
"Bravo! An extremely important book. What Cooper did decades ago for exercise
and the heart, Ratey does in SPARK for exercise and the brain. An
utterly convincing and brilliantly documented ground-breaking work...So,
get moving! Your brain will thank you and repay you many times over."—Edward Hallowell, M.D., The Hallowell Centers
"Ratey has culled the latest science and found that a regular workout can help build a better, faster brain."—USA Today
About the Author
John Ratey, M.D. is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of numerous bestselling and groundbreaking books, including Driven to Distraction and A User's Guide to the Brain. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has a private practice. Eric Hagerman is a former editor of Popular Science and Outside. His work has been featured in The Best American Sports Writing 2004, Men's Journal, and PLAY.
"This book explains in clear terms the role exercise plays in our mental
processes. Moving our muscles produces proteins that play roles in our
highest thought processes. Ratey says, "thinking is the internalization
of movement." He illustrates this with the story of the sea squirt
that hatches with a rudimentary spinal cord and 300 brain cells. It has
only hours to find a spot of coral on which to put down roots or die.
When it does put down roots, it eats its brain. According to Ratey only
a moving animal needs a brain.
He begins with the value exercise has for the learning process in high school
students: improved academic performance, alertness, attention and motivation.
He cites studies that say we can alter our mental states by physically moving.
He said depression is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. He
then presents a chapter where depression is relieved in case studies by
exercise.
Among the areas Ratey covers are: stress, depression, ADD, and aging. This
book is a great motivator for exercise.
However, Ratey's work was preceded by Glenn Doman's. Doman advocated
exercise for brain injured children in the 1950s when the only 'treatment' was to
institutionalize them. He later started a `super babies' program. Both the educational
and medical establishments attacked and marginalized Doman's work."
Get It:
Magic Button :
add some reputation, make mirrors, discuss it and USE it.
