Feeling so miserable that you think you couldn't possibly exercise? You're wrong.

[ActiveMSers]

Even when your body refuses to cooperate, you can still exercise one part of your being: that brain of yours. A newly released study found "that maintaining an intellectually active lifestyle can help preserve learning and memory, even among patients with a high degree of brain damage" among people with MS. The study appears in the new issue of Neurology.

http://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclero...ct-ms-patients

So do that crossword, read that newspaper, solve that sudoku... and get your gray matter off the couch!

[Lucia]

Definitely agree with this one. Even reading a book or surfing the web is better than watching tv for hours on end.

Mind you, watching tv can be relaxing. It definitely helps me to unwind but writing poetry - even bad poetry - playing on-line scrabble, etc., keep the ole noggin busy.