UFSCar - Por e Ing 2008 – Questão 13

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Stronger, Faster, Smarter
Exercise does more than build muscles and help prevent heart disease. New science shows that it also boosts brainpower – and may offer hope in the battle against Alzheimer's.
By Mary Carmichael
 
The stereotype of the “dumb jock” has never sounded right to Charles Hillman. A jock himself, he plays hockey four times a week, but when he isn’t bodychecking his opponents on the ice, he’s giving his mind a comparable workout in his neuroscience and kinesiology lab at the University of Illinois. Nearly every semester in his classroom, he says, students on the women’s crosscountry team set the curve on his exams. So recently he started wondering if there was a vital and overlooked link between brawn and brains – if long hours at the gym could somehow build up not just muscles, but minds. With colleagues, he rounded up 259 Illinois third and fifth graders, measured their body mass index and put them through classic PE routines: the “sit-and-reach”, a brisk run and timed pushups and sit-ups. Then he checked their physical abilities against their math and reading scores on a statewide standardized test. Sure enough, on the whole, the kids with the fittest bodies were the ones with the fittest brains, even when factors such as socioeconomic status were taken into account. Sports, Hillman concluded, might indeed be boosting the students’ intellect – and also, as long as he didn’t “take the puck to the head”, his own (…)
Newsweek, April 9, 2007
A pesquisa apresentada no texto foi desenvolvida por
a) Hillman e 259 cidadãos de Illinois.
b) colegas de Hillman e 259 cidadãos de Illinois.
c) Hillman e outros colegas.
d) participantes do time de hockey de Illinois e mulheres do time de corrida.
e) colegas de Hillman e participantes do time de hockey de Illinois.

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