If any reader who looks at my short bookmark notes on Health and Wellness here in this site, they probably rightly guess that I am obsessed with health and wellness. Sure, I am – who doesn’t do if one has opted for a healthy life style.

Recently I found yet another Quartz article What a Brief Jog Can Do for Your Brain, which I found interesting and thought to write my usual book mark note again. In the article, Ephrat Livni writes that based on a 2018 study even a short 15-minutes quick, light jog may leave a “feeling more energetic than resting, which will lift your spirits and in turn make your thinking more effective”.

Light exercise does more to boost cognitive function than relaxing for the same amount of time. And the reason appears to be that movement lifts mood and leaves people feeling more energized than doing nothing, according to psychologists from the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France.

According the study authors, “Virtually no study to date has examined whether there is an association between affective responses to acute exercise and the effects of acute exercise on cognitive function.”

The primary findings of the study, according to the paper:

“[T]he primary finding… was that aerobic exercise improved perceptual speed/visual attentional control through increases in self-reported feelings of vigor-energy,”