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I’m sure you’ve heard before that we should eat fish on a regular

A lot of people come to my blog looking for online brain games and advice on how to find the best ones. In order to help you make more informed decisions, I’m producing a series of reviews of commercially available brain games. You can find a listing of all the commercially available brain game reviews in the Articles section of this website.

The trick to exercising is to make it a part of your lifestyle instead of just something you attempt to do a few times each week.  This post is going to look at several things you can do to integrate exercise into your life. Do you have anything you do to help keep yourself active?  Please share in the comments.

The ability to manage stress is very important. I noted in a previous post on stress management that when we’re stressed, a hormone called cortisol is released in our body. In the short-term, cortisol helps the brain to cope with life-threatening situations. But when overloaded with cortisol, the brain’s neurons end up firing too frequently end up dying.

Neurons dying.. that doesn’t sound good to me.

Stress management is one of the 4 pillars of brain health. Therefore it is vitally important for us to understand and learn about stress and stress management in order to keep our bodies and brains healthy.

Stress is a normal reaction to the demands of life. But when we’re not able to cope well with stress, our mind and body will pay the price.

One of the 4 pillars of brain health is mental exercise. Many people wonder if there is actually any research demonstrating that mental exercise actually has any benefit with respect to brain health and fitness and preventing age related mental decline such as dementia.

Well, lets take a look some of the research on the subject.

As I noted in my last post, the 4 Pillars of Brain Health are all you really need to know and do in order to keep and improve your brain health and fitness.  As such, I’ll be adding activities and actions this year that touch on each of the 4 Pillars.

Listed below are the actions and activities I will be incorporating into 2010 with respect to the 4 Pillars of Brain Health.

Well, it’s the end of yet another year. It seems like the older I get, the faster they come and go.

The KenKen puzzle game is today’s online brain games highlight.