Just a couple of minutes of walking around or stretching every hour can improve memory and attention span – Tiny bursts of exercise once an hour could boost your cognition at school or at work, adding to the evidence of how important it is to take occasional breaks.
“Exercise improves pretty much every domain you can think of, including cognition over the long term. The interesting thing here is that this is immediate,” says Mike Trott at the University of Queensland in Australia, who wasn’t involved in the research…
Source: NewScientist | Health
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