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Exercise and healthy eating habits lead to increased intelligence

Most people are at least dimly aware that regular exercise generally produces health benefits. But not everyone knows that those benefits extend beyond the body and into the human brain.
The bottom line: Exercisers learn faster, remember more, think clearer and bounce back more easily from brain injuries such as a stroke. They are also less [...]

Making decisions wears out the brain

Scientific American has an interesting article that discusses how decision making wears out the human brain. What makes the article so interesting to me is that my brain is constantly overloaded. I am bombarded at any given moment with multiple streams of input. I face situations multiple times on a daily basis that require me [...]