If it wasn't already obvious that exercise is good for you then this book will demonstrate how it is also good for the brain. The book is loaded with lots of details about exactly how exercise stimulates and maintains our brains. It also details how to train to achieve optimal brain functionality.
The book contains plenty of medical evidence (the author being a doctor and all) that certainly adds a good deal of credibility to something that seems very obvious. The chapters cover a range of ailments and how exercise has been shown to overcome them. Even though some activity is better than no activity (which is the norm these days) the book demonstrates how you must push yourself physically to get the most from the grey matter between your ears. This is probably the hard part but the benefits seem well worth it.
Generally the book is a good read but there is plenty of medical terminology mixed in which can make it a bit hard to follow. However, if you did want to really investigate the processes detailed here then it seems that the specific mentioned in the book are a great place to start any research.
Although the thesis of the book can be summed up in one simple common sense phrase for those that are interesting in understand better how the brain works and how it responds to physical activity then this book is a recommended read.Get more detail about Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain.
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