Staying fit is a great goal which will help you lead a longer, fitter life but if your brain can’t keep up, then what is the point. So how are you able to keep your brain fit? Brain exercise is the solution. 2 of the most critical factors in keeping your brain healthy are conventional exercise and nourishment.

Keep your body healthy and your brain will follow that lead. But after that there are more methods to exercise your mind. You have doubtless heard folk describe one of their older family like this,’my Uncle Larry is a sharp as a tack, he does the NY Times Crossword puzzle everyday.’

Well, Uncle Larry has a right idea but his execution is a little off. You see the most effective way to stimulate your brain is to damage freed from common-or-garden activities and challenge yourself in new and astonishing ways. Activities to exercise your mind :

* if you are right handed, trying cleaning your teeth with your left hand

* Try attaining something with your eyes shut, like putting the key in your front doorway or walking to your refrigerator

* Try a different route on your daily commute

* Reconstruct your day by writing down what you probably did. As an example, if you make a journey to the zoo, when you get home try to scribble down all of the animals that you saw in the order that your saw them. Your ma might have told you that playing too many computer games will turn your brain to mush, but she was incorrect.

The Nintendo DS Lite has a few games that are built to exercise your brain and they are quite good. They are sundry sufficient to dodge becoming routine and continue to test even after repeated playing. But the better part is that they are fun to spend a while with.

I lately played my cousin’s copy of Giant Brain Academy on her Nintendo DS. The game contains some fun puzzles that you try and finish in a set period of time. Just as you get the hang of the puzzle, it’s over and there is a new one to explore. If you are trying to battle off the results of old age, exercising your body is great but do not forget to exercise your mind.