Boost Your Brain with Simple Habits

Walking, swimming, cycling, dancing, or even gentle exercises

like tai chi or yoga all provide benefits. Start gradually if you've been sedentary.

Even 10 minutes of daily walking provides brain benefits and can be increased as your fitness

improves. Habit number three: deep reading practice daily. In our age of scrolling

and skimming, deep reading-focused sustained attention to complex text has become rare

but incredibly valuable for memory. Deep reading engages multiple brain networks simultaneously.

You must focus attention, decode language, follow complex narratives, hold information in working memory,

and integrate new information with existing knowledge. Research from Emory University shows