Author Topic: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature  (Read 1894 times)

TheGUYuk

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Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature




Wandering lonely as a cloud high o’er vales and hills may be the best way to recharge your batteries - so long as you leave your conventional battery-powered devices at home.    
What writers have known for centuries, scientists are now endeavouring to prove – that contact with nature can boost creativity and problem solving skills.  
Backpackers who spent four days in the wilderness without access to electronic devices scored 50 per cent better on a creativity test at the end of the trip, according to researchers.  
The backpackers – 56 in all – joined one of four separate expeditions run by the Outward Bound organisation and took a ten item “creativity test” at the start and end of the hike. On average they got four out of ten questions right at the start and six right at the end.  
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/want-to-boost-your-brain-take-a-tip-from-mother-nature-8411932.html

 
I myself think it does help, in that people have to start taking responsibilty for themselves  :)

robstubbs

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #1 on: 17:45:01, 14/12/12 »
Not sure how you correlate creativity with boosting brain performance. And way too small a sample size for it to be scientifically valid anyway.

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TheGUYuk

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #2 on: 18:57:42, 15/12/12 »
They seem to think different :)

robstubbs

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #3 on: 20:04:10, 15/12/12 »
They seem to think different :)
Must be true then, the media never lie  :P

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #4 on: 20:05:23, 15/12/12 »
My brain is perfect....... 8)

TheGUYuk

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #5 on: 12:13:07, 16/12/12 »
Must be true then, the media never lie  :P

Rob.


 O0 ;) ;D ;D ;D :D


You must be right then as people against a newspaper article are never wrong ;D ;D :P

Mel

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #6 on: 13:20:31, 16/12/12 »
It could be the better quality of oxygen (less exhaust fumes, etc.) whizzing around your brain rather than lack of gadgets?
 
(she said, sat in the house, in front of her computer  ;D  )
 

TheGUYuk

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #7 on: 17:06:23, 17/12/12 »
It could be the better quality of oxygen (less exhaust fumes, etc.) whizzing around your brain rather than lack of gadgets?
 
(she said, sat in the house, in front of her computer  ;D  )


I wonder if from a walking view point it is having to take responsibility for your actions and having to plan.


In cities today we are lead around by signs, paths, bus timetables etc.


? ??? :)

Mel

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #8 on: 19:29:21, 17/12/12 »
You mean we have to use our..... BRAINS  :o :o ;) 
 
 

TheGUYuk

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #9 on: 19:55:38, 17/12/12 »
You mean we have to use our..... BRAINS  :o :o ;)


Scary I know :o O0

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #10 on: 08:58:00, 18/12/12 »
You missed the best part of the report
 "The results were controlled for age differences between the groups that took the test, because “as you get older, you have greater verbal abilities,” the researchers said."
Always nice to be one up on the youngsters ;D ;D :D ;D ;D
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Andy Broadley

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #11 on: 10:13:41, 18/12/12 »
Sadly, what Mother nature gives us, Father time takes away again... :(
The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #12 on: 11:07:26, 18/12/12 »
Sorry to be a cynic but I don't believe a word of it.
Statistics can be made to point in whatever direction the publisher wishes them to. I learned that the hard way in my dealings with local politicians whilst involved in another hobby.

TheGUYuk

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #13 on: 11:50:26, 18/12/12 »
Sadly, what Mother nature gives us, Father time takes away again... :(


They do tablets for that now, you know ::) :P ;D

TheGUYuk

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Re: Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
« Reply #14 on: 11:51:38, 18/12/12 »
Sorry to be a cynic but I don't believe a word of it.
Statistics can be made to point in whatever direction the publisher wishes them to. I learned that the hard way in my dealings with local politicians whilst involved in another hobby.




Maybe but they say 88 percent of comments on statistics are made up ::) :o O0

 

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