{"id":3209,"date":"2010-10-15T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T22:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2016-05-27T17:15:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T23:15:04","slug":"another-reason-to-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/15\/another-reason-to-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason to Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3210\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/par_incline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3210\" title=\"Take A Walk!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/par_incline-225x169.jpg\" alt=\"Take A Walk!\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/par_incline-225x169.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/par_incline-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/par_incline-169x126.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/par_incline.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Take A Walk!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I climb for many reasons &#8211; exercise,   <\/a>  being outdoors,   challenge but there is another reason that hits close to home for me.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent study published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neurology.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/WNL.0b013e3181f88359v1\" target=\"_blank\">Neurology<\/a> and covered in the Consumer Reports Blog, it may stave of brain shrinkage which has been linked to memory problems as we age. From the report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the study, 299 dementia-free seniors reported the number of blocks they walked in one week. The total number of blocks walked over a one-week period ranged from 0 to 300. The walkers were given brain scans nine years later to measure brain size, and then four years after that they were tested for signs of cognitive decline. Researchers found that those who walked at least 72 blocks, or roughly six miles, had greater gray matter volume than those who didn\u2019t walk as much, and they cut their risk of developing memory problems in half.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So next time you forget where you put the car keys, take a walk!<\/p>\n<p>Climb On!<\/p>\n<p>Alan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I climb for many reasons &#8211; exercise, being outdoors, challenge but there is another reason that hits close to home for me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimers","tag-alzheimers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}