Vital Signs – Strength Training Aids Mental Acuity in Women, Study Finds – NYTimes.com.

Another reason to do weight resistance training for women.  How many more reasons do you need? Just an hour or two a week can help. What are you waiting for?

Play, Then Eat: Shift May Bring Gains at School – Well Blog – NYTimes.com.

So switching the play time before lunchtime has shown behavior and cognitive improvement? Well then let’s do it! Children who played before lunch wasted less food, drank more milk and asked for more water. And as in Arizona, students were calmer when they returned to classrooms, resulting in about 10 minutes of extra teaching time.

Fitness and Nutrition Center: Turbulence Training Fat Loss Bodyweight Workout.

I love reading these type of blog posts when it gives you advice about how to get a good workout without equipment, which means you can do it at home while you are watching your kids, at a hotel room if you are away, or stuck at home in the worst winter snow weather ever! No Excuses!!

Girls may learn math anxiety from female teachers

Young students tend to model themselves after adults of the same sex, and having a female teacher who is anxious about math may reinforce the stereotype that boys are better at math than girls…

Oh great, another thing to worry about. That women themselves are perpetuating the stereotype.

... by the end of the year, the more anxious teachers were about their own math skills, the more likely their female students — but not the boys — were to agree that “boys are good at math and girls are good at reading.