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Dr. Jill A. Moreno Ikari
English 47A
04 March 2015
In discussions of exercise make us feel better, but most of us have no idea why, one controversial issue has been assume it's because we are burning off stress or reducing muscle tension or boosting endorphins, and we leave it at that. The book named “Spark-The revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain” is a real turning point that explains what we need. This book was wrote by John J. Ratey, MD. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, research synthesizer, speaker, and best-selling author. Dr. Ratey has established himself as one of the world's foremost authorities on the brain-fitness connection. He serves as Adjunct Professor at National Taiwan Sports University and is Reebok's Ambassador for Active Kids. This book gave us the real reason we feel so good when we get our blood pumping is that it makes the brain function at its best, and in my view, this benefit of physical activity is far more important and fascinating than what it does for body. As a student, I think the better way to make our life more easy is exercise.
In the book, Spark, Ratey mention that “In 2001 fit kids scored twice as well on academic tests as their unfit peers. Among California’s 279000 ninth graders, for instance, those who scored a six on the Fitness Gram ranked, on average, in the sixty-seventh percentile in math and the forty-fifth percentile in reading on the Stanford Achievement Test. When the CDE repeated the study in 2002, it factored in socio-economic status.”(21) As expected, students with a higher standard of living scored better on the academic test, but the results also showed that within the lower-income students, fitter kids scored better than unfit kids. This is a powerful statistic in itself. It suggests that although parents may not have immediate control over their financial situations, they can improve their kids’ chances of performing well buy encouraging them
Dr. Jill A. Moreno Ikari
English 47A
04 March 2015
In discussions of exercise make us feel better, but most of us have no idea why, one controversial issue has been assume it's because we are burning off stress or reducing muscle tension or boosting endorphins, and we leave it at that. The book named “Spark-The revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain” is a real turning point that explains what we need. This book was wrote by John J. Ratey, MD. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, research synthesizer, speaker, and best-selling author. Dr. Ratey has established himself as one of the world's foremost authorities on the brain-fitness connection. He serves as Adjunct Professor at National Taiwan Sports University and is Reebok's Ambassador for Active Kids. This book gave us the real reason we feel so good when we get our blood pumping is that it makes the brain function at its best, and in my view, this benefit of physical activity is far more important and fascinating than what it does for body. As a student, I think the better way to make our life more easy is exercise.
In the book, Spark, Ratey mention that “In 2001 fit kids scored twice as well on academic tests as their unfit peers. Among California’s 279000 ninth graders, for instance, those who scored a six on the Fitness Gram ranked, on average, in the sixty-seventh percentile in math and the forty-fifth percentile in reading on the Stanford Achievement Test. When the CDE repeated the study in 2002, it factored in socio-economic status.”(21) As expected, students with a higher standard of living scored better on the academic test, but the results also showed that within the lower-income students, fitter kids scored better than unfit kids. This is a powerful statistic in itself. It suggests that although parents may not have immediate control over their financial situations, they can improve their kids’ chances of performing well buy encouraging them