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A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD.
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 J. Ratey, M.D., embarks upon a fascinating and entertaining journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer’s. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, which has put this 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—or, for that matter, simply the way you think
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Rating: 5 / 5
Excellent reading… explains how each part of your brain processed information. How exercise can help your memore…
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this book since the title sounded interesting. However, after reading the first three chapters I found it to bequite technical, full of jargons and missing the point. There are some interesting snippets but on the overall its quite disappointing.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book has alot of technical language but is very good at stressing why excersise is so important for our bodies and mind. It’s a good read and school phys ed teachers could learn a tremendous amount to help their students.
Rating: 4 / 5
The author definitely oversells his argument, which in itself is fairly sound.
One thing in particular I picked up on is his use of Naperville School Discrict 203 as a case study for how excersise improves learning. It is true that the students there are excellent and do very well in science and math, but he doesn’t look at other contributing factors such as ethnic demographics. There are a large number of children from immigrant families who are very educated – India, China, etc. Education is the #1 priority for these people. I come from a similar family, although European, and can see that people who don’t come from that background don’t get it – at all. Excersise didn’t make me educated, my parents and my hard work made me educated!
Rating: 3 / 5