{"id":2895,"date":"2014-08-27T11:35:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2014-08-27T11:35:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:35:48","slug":"a-healthy-mind-with-a-healthy-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-healthy-mind-with-a-healthy-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"A healthy mind with a healthy heart<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study confirms that exercise and healthy lifestyle maintains the elasticity of the arteries and is linked to preserved cognitive abilities later in life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers performed MRI scans and physical tests on 31 young people (aged 18-30) and 54 older participants (aged 55-75) and while they found that age-related decline of cognitive functions and cardio fitness, they also observed that older adults whose aortas were in a better condition and who had greater aerobic fitness performed better on a cognitive test.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neurobiologyofaging.org\/article\/S0197-4580%2814%2900531-4\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">original research paper<\/a><\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>Neurobiology of aging<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 19, 2014<\/strong>, is available upon request.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Claudine J. Gauthier, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study confirms that exercise and healthy lifestyle maintains the elasticity of the arteries and is linked to preserved cognitive abilities later in life. Researchers performed MRI scans and physical tests on 31 young people (aged 18-30) and 54 older participants (aged 55-75) and while they found that age-related decline of cognitive functions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1123,1989,51,1000],"class_list":["post-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-aging","tag-cardiovascular-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-KH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}