A friend reminded me about this article and thought I should advertise Life Drawing for its health benefits – you know, ‘new year, diet, exercise, new me’ sort of thing. So 2016 = diet, exercise, life drawing etc, but the best of these is LIFE DRAWING.
This is taken from a BBC Magazine article on 14th July, 2015. I am not sure how to reblog from their site so I hope I haven’t broken laws etc. Too good a piece not to share it with you.
We’d all like to know about how to keep our brains as sharp as possible as we age. But what are the best ways to do this, asks Michael Mosley.
Ask anyone over the age of 40 what worries them most about growing older and the answer that comes back is almost always the fear of losing your memory. I worry about the fact that I find it harder than ever to remember names and that without my phone to remind me, I would forget many of my daily appointments.
There are some fairly obvious things to avoid if you want to maintain good brain health. These include smoking, becoming…
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