From a learning specialist and a neuropsychologist, activities and brain training to improve memory and mental fitness. Brainfit is a training program designed to reclaim your brain. In ten to fifteen minutes a day, individuals who are beginning to feel the effects of memory loss will see immediate reversal of the mental aging process. The nine distinct, fast and fun weekly workouts focus on a different aspect of brain fitness. This approach fits the lifestyle of the target marketage and intellect appropriate, fast, entertaining, and results oriented. Features include: Weekly Exercise Planners for your daily routine Exercises more like games or brain teasers to achieve maximum results Tips, suggestions, and creative alternatives to your daily routine

Exercise your mind with this fabulous selection of 100 colour puzzles from Mensa, the world-famous high IQ society. Written by Robert Allen, the former director of Mensa Publications, these puzzles are graded in difficulty, providing a progressive opportunity to develop your puzzlesolving abilities. The brain is a muscle just like any other part of the body, and must be exercised in order to stay fit. Filled with puzzled and challenges designed to test your brain, as well as help it to strengthen and stay in good shape, this book is perfect for upping the fitness of your cranium. Between the covers, you'll find a treasury of brainteasers guaranteed to provide you with hours of fun. Best of all, you'll give your mind a wonderful workout too!

A balanced, scientific, and practical approach to monitoring and maintaining your brain's agility and mental health. How do you expand your brain's skills? How do you keep your brain working at its best as it ages? Bookshelves are full of writing by charismatic authors claiming they have found the answer, whether they are neuroscientists, psychologists, or mystics. The Brain Fitness Book looks at the well-established science and recent scientific revelations, and offers a well-balanced, clear, and colorful practical guide to keeping your brain fit. First, it shows you how your brain works--explaining how memories are stored and recalled, for instance, and how different parts of your brain have different functions. It then gives you practical advice and a whole range of exercises to improve memory and mental agility and keep your brain working to its maximum potential. The book includes mental exercises and activities, featuring challenges from logic puzzles and visual reasoning to language learning and sensory exercises, stimulating as many parts of the brain as possible. As well as mental stimulation, the book highlights the role and importance of sleep, a healthy diet, and physical exercise. An agile, healthy brain is not only less prone to age-related decline, it can also conquer stress, anxiety, and the risk of depression. Keep challenging your mind in new ways with The Brain Fitness Book and maintain your brain.

You can train your brain and live smarter, longer! That's the message in this fully illustrated guide to mental fitness. Clinical research suggests that a program of mental exercises can help to increase brain power and even halt or reduce the effects of Alzheimer's disease. This illustrated guide features puzzles, word and number patterns, logic skills, cognitive reasoning exercises, nutritional advice, and much more, all designed to help readers keep their minds in tip-top shape. There are tips and techniques that anyone can use to optimize their thinking, along with self-administered tests that measure progress. It's like a gym for the mind!

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This book contains hundreds of teasers for the ultimate, mind-challenge workout, with such features as number grids, scrostics, logic problems, arithmetic squares, and others.

Thoroughly revised and updated, Essential Concepts for Healthy Living, Sixth Edition provides students with a clear and concise introduction to the latest scientific and medical research in personal health. With its unique focus on critical thinking and analysis of health-related behaviors and attitudes, this text enhances students' understanding of their own health needs and presents the scientific background necessary for students to think critically about the reliability of health-related information they encounter in the media. New to the Sixth Edition Updated Design - interior layout has been upgraded and modernized Includes Healthy People 2020 and MyPlate New sections added - Transgender, Anti-Drug Vaccines, Alcohol-related injury deaths in college students, Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, Celiac Disease, Consumer Health: CAM Products and Colds, and more.