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Tue 4 Jan, 2011 02:58 am
You walk five miles a week and it can protect your brain for 10 years? It doesn't sound holding water.
Context:
"We found that walking five miles per week protects the brain structure over 10 years in people with Alzheimer's and MCI, especially in areas of the brain's key memory and learning centers," said Cyrus Raji, Ph.D., from the Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. "We also found that these people had a slower decline in memory loss over five years."
@oristarA,
This is a bit confusing, but I read this as saying the test group that walked five miles per week (every week) showed less degradation in brain structure over the ten years
of the study in people with Alzheimer's and MCI. The study in memory loss only covered a five year period.
@engineer,
It is badly written, but i have recently heard a report on the radio to the effect that mild aerobic exercise, such as walking, can prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease for as long as ten years, and that might be what this author is trying to say.
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
It is badly written, but i have recently heard a report on the radio to the effect that mild aerobic exercise, such as walking, can prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease for as long as ten years, and that might be what this author is trying to say.
Eh? I said "it can't be" while it is indeed a surprise?
@engineer,
engineer wrote:
This is a bit confusing, but I read this as saying the test group that walked five miles per week (every week) showed less degradation in brain structure over the ten years of the study in people with Alzheimer's and MCI. The study in memory loss only covered a five year period.
Good.
But Setanta's opinion made me wavering in descion.
The piece is badly enough written that i can't say for certain that it means what i am suggesting it means. I was only moved to make that remark by the report i had heard on the radio.
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
The piece is badly enough written that i can't say for certain that it means what i am suggesting it means. I was only moved to make that remark by the report i had heard on the radio.
Both American people and Chinese people are confused by the good findings.
Eh... wait a minute!
JPB may have a good idea to solve this.
@oristarA,
Nope. Either interpretation is equally likely from the way it's written. Do you have a link to the source?
@Setanta,
Quote:It is badly written
It wasn't written, you doofus. Do you understand what the verb 'said' means?
@oristarA,
Quote:It doesn't sound holding water.
It doesn't sound like it holds water.
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