PsychCentral – RICK NAUERT PHD
“If having a fat child does not motivate parents to improve their child’s physical conditioning, maybe a new research report that shows the benefits of fitness for language skills will reverse the trend. In a new study, researchers found that children who are physically fit have faster and more robust neuro-electrical brain responses during reading than their less-fit peers…Most importantly, the researchers said, these differences in brain activity corresponded to better reading performance and language comprehension in the children who were more fit.”(more)