{"id":29124,"date":"2018-04-25T11:47:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T11:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=29124"},"modified":"2018-04-25T11:47:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T11:47:50","slug":"drinking-water-may-help-exercising-seniors-stay-mentally-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/drinking-water-may-help-exercising-seniors-stay-mentally-sharp\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking water may help exercising seniors stay mentally sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Older people should drink more water to reap the full cognitive benefits of exercise, a study suggests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study presented at the American Physiological Society annual meeting in San Diego, US explores the association between hydration status before exercising and exercise-enhanced cognition in older adults.<\/p>\n<p>Dehydration has been shown to impair exercise performance and brain function in young people, but less is known about its impact on older populations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Middle-age and older adults often display a blunted thirst perception, which places them at risk for dehydration and subsequently may reduce the cognitive health-related benefits of exercise,&#8221; said Brandon Yates from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers recruited recreational cyclists (average age 55) who participated in a large cycling event on a warm day.<\/p>\n<p>The cyclists performed a &#8220;trail-making&#8221; executive function test &#8211; quickly and accurately connecting numbered dots using paper and pencil &#8211; before and after the event.<\/p>\n<p>Executive function includes the skills needed to plan, focus, remember and multitask. Exercise has been shown to improve intellectual health, including executive function.<\/p>\n<p>The research team tested the volunteers&#8217; urine before they exercised and divided them into two groups &#8211; normal hydration and dehydrated &#8211; based on their hydration status.<\/p>\n<p>The normal hydration group showed noticeable improvement in the completion time of the trail-making test after cycling when compared to their pre-cycling test.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older people should drink more water to reap the full cognitive benefits of exercise, a study suggests. The study presented at the American Physiological Society annual meeting in San Diego, US explores the association between hydration status before exercising and exercise-enhanced cognition in older adults. Dehydration has been shown to impair exercise performance and brain [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29126,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29124\/revisions\/29126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}