Can Exercise Help Develop Intelligence?

In an experiment published last month, researchers recruited schoolchildren, ages 9 and 10, who lived near the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and asked them to run on a treadmill. The researchers were hoping to learn more about how fitness affects the immature human brain.

The results of this and other recent research are clear: exercise is good for the intelligence of young people. 

For more, see: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/phys-ed-can-exercise-make-kids-smarter/?scp=1&sq=the%20fittest%20brains&st=cse