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S6E1 Physically-Active Lessons Improve Students' Health, Cognition, AND Academic Ability Simultaneously
With all the concern regarding the physical health, mental health, and academic ability of schoolchildren worldwide, 36 elementary schoolchildren spent two years learning math not in a sedentary…
S5E4 Physical Activity Enhances School Readiness for Preschoolers
There have been many studies demonstrating that physical activity positively impacts the academic performance of schoolchildren. And now, we’re beginning to find out that physical activity also…
S5E3 Team-Based Physical Activity Enhances Social Cognition
Two or more people engaged in the same challenging physical activity can enhance one another’s social cognition. Here with the details is Professor Liye Zou of Shenzhen University in Shenzhen,…
S5E2 Physically-Active Learning Is Better for Students Than Sedentary Learning
Having students engaged in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity while learning improves their academic performance, cognition, and fitness more so than students who sit at their desks. Here with…
S5E1 Physical Exercise Improves Intelligence in Youth
Over the past two decades, an overwhelming number of scientifically-validated, peer-reviewed studies have shown that physical exercise enhances brain function. A recent study shows that this also…
S4E3 How Cycling Culture Benefits Public Health, Economies, Climate-Change Mitigation
It is well established that exercising and being physically active is good for a person’s brain, body, and mental health. But there is also an added benefit that goes beyond individuals that has to…
S4E2 Walking Can Prevent the Recurrence of Low Back Pain
Low back pain is an affliction that impacts over half a billion people annually worldwide, and often affects just about everything a person does in their daily life. And while the medical community,…
S4E1 Steps Per Day Impacts Children’s Mental Health
A growing number of research studies is showing that physical activity not only enhances our physical health, it also positively impacts our mental health. And this is true for schoolchildren as well…
S3E5 Students' Reactions to Physical Activity Integration in the Classroom
While there have been many studies on how physical activity in schools impacts the academic performance, health, and social-emotional behavior of students, there has been very little research on the…
S3E4 How Physical Activity Increases Academic Performance … in Everyday Language
Over the past two decades, numerous scientific studies have shown how physical activity increases academic performance in schoolchildren. But sometimes the studies are so technical, it’s difficult to…
S3E3 Spinning Apes and Children, Mental Health, Learning
Whether in the wild or captivity, as part of their normal, regular behavior, great apes will hold on to a vine, raise themselves in the air, and spin themselves around and around at high speeds until…
S3E2 Yoga and the Body. Yoga and the Brain
Research shows that yoga not only positively impacts our bodies, it also has the same effect on our brains. What’s more, people of all ages and ability levels can practice and enjoy its benefits.…
S3E1 The 'WHERE' of Physical Activity's Positive Impact
For some time, we've known that physical activity is good for both our body and brain. Now, emerging research is just beginning to show us something else: It may not be just a matter of being…
S2E10 Physical Activity as a Way to Prevent and Treat Anxiety
While we would mostly rather not, just about everyone experiences anxiety. And people get anxious for all kinds of reasons. Some anxieties are minor that we get through fairly well, and some take…
S2E9 The Positive Combined Effect of Physical Activity and Music on Your Brain
Over the past 30 to 40 years, research in neuroscience has conclusively shown how physical activity positively impacts cognition, how our brains work. More recently, studies are showing the same…
S2E8 Evolution and Why Exercise Is Essential, Not Optional
For most people, exercise is something they know is good for them, but don't have the time, motivation, or inclination to make it a priority. They just don't see it as being essential to them.…
S2E7 Diet: How the Body and Brain Are Integrated
In addition to the body and brain being integrated through physical activity, they are also connected through diet. What we eat has a direct impact on how our brains function. Professor Fernando…
S2E6 Physical Activity: How the Body and Brain Are Integrated
The brain is not only a thinking organ, it is also a movement organ. In fact, the brain and body are directly linked through physical activity, whereby the brain positively impacts movement and…
S2E5 The Positive Effect of Physical Activity on Preventing and Treating Depression
It is common knowledge that physical activity is good for the body and our physical health. Less known is the fact that physical activity is just as beneficial for the brain and our mental health,…
S2E4 Physical Activity Greatly Reduces the Risk of Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease
There is no current medical procedure, surgical technique, or prescriptive drug that can prevent or slow the progression of forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. However, there is…
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UP ON OUR FEET has published 26 episodes since January 2022, covering topics in Education.
UP ON OUR FEET is currently highly active with new episodes quarterly. Average episode length is 32m.
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