Walking and pedaling to school improve cognition

• April 26, 2024

The teenagers what they walk or they arrive in bike The school performs better in tests of verbal and mathematical skills, according to a Spanish study. It was also discovered that the longer the trip, the better the performance in the cognitive evaluations .

The team of David Martínez Gómez , of the National Research Council of Spain, in Madrid, observed that women with a conveyance active they obtained an average of 53 points in the tests of cognitive function, while the rest obtained about four points less.

He stressed that women who walked or pedaled more than 15 minutes to get to school performed even better than those who did less than 15 minutes, which, for the team, confirms the relationship between the use of a conveyance active and the performance in the tests.

In Mexico, IMSS (Mexican Institute of Social Security) recommends, as part of the daily activity of adolescents, walking or jogging 4 times a week from 25 to 30 minutes.

Source: MedLinePlus

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