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Want to Improve Your Memory? Try Walking Backwards A 43-year-old Indonesian man is walking 435 miles, from his home in East Java to the capital of Jakarta -- backwards. Covering about 12 to 19 miles a day, with a rear-view mirror attached to his backpack so he can avoid bumping into things, he has undertaken his trek to call attention to his country’s high degree of deforestation. Chances are he’ll remember every step along the way. According to a Harvard University Department of Psychology study published earlier this year, people who walk backwards, imagine walking backwards, or watch a video simulating a backwards walk have a sharper recall of recent events than those who walk forward or sit still. Because numerous studies have shown links between memory and motion, researchers decided to test the relative effects of forward and backward movement on recall ability. They asked 114 people to take part in a variety of memory experiments, showing each one a word list, a group ...

How to Lose Fat and Gain Muscle at the Same Time There are a lot of reasons to work out, including improving health, burning fat , gaining muscle , and just simply feeling better. Many of us have multiple goals at once, and luckily, a lot of these logically go hand-in-hand. Losing fat and gaining muscle, however, seem to be a little conflicting. When you're trying to lose fat, you're trying to get rid of some of your body's mass; when you're gaining muscle, you're looking to do the opposite and build up your body. So it makes sense to wonder, can you really add muscle mass at the same time? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. In fact, working on both goals at the same time will maximize your results—many of the same exercises that are good for burning fat are also great for building up muscles. And it’s kind of a domino effect: When you have more muscle mass, your body requires more energy at rest (that is, burns more calories when you’re not even moving)....