(UFSCAR - 2008) O texto seguinte foi publicado na seo Health for Life da revista Newsweek. Leia-o e responda as questes de nmeros 11 a 16. Stronger, Faster, Smater 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 Alzheimers. 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 isnt body-checking his opponents on the ice, hes 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 womens cross-country 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 didnt take the puck to the head, his own () (Newsweek, April 9, 2007.) Os referentes their e the ones destacados no texto se referem respectivamente a:
