October 30, 2013 · 4:29 PM

One More Reason to Exercise: Slow the Rate of Age-Related Memory Loss and Alzheimer’s Disease

…according to an article at MedPageToday. The 300+study participants were at high risk of Alzheimer’s dementia due to family history. The protective dose of exercise was at least 7.7 MET per hour/week. Please comment if you can translate that into something practical! Click for the definition of MET at About.com.

Old-school preparation for exercise; stretching actually doesn't do any good for the average person

Old-school preparation for exercise; stretching actually doesn’t do any good for the average person

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One response to “One More Reason to Exercise: Slow the Rate of Age-Related Memory Loss and Alzheimer’s Disease”

  1. Jonathan Christie
    October 31, 2013 at 12:06 PM

    Ah, METs! A useless metric designed to shame our sedentary habits.

    “Ill MET by moonlight” = you’re fat at night too you lazy bastard.

    “METagrobolized” = totally perplexed and mixed up by all duncical nonsense (meaning stupid, lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity)