VITAL SIGNS

Fitness: A Walk to Remember?

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Study Says Yes

By PAULA SPAN

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/health/research/08fitness.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

In healthy adults, the hippocampus — a part of the brain important to the formation of memories — begins to atrophy around 55 or 60. Now psychologists are suggesting that the hippocampus can be modestly expanded, and memory improved, by nothing more than regular walking.