Falls

1965 I read best grades are by distance runners and swimmers. Now I learn that is because of neurogenesis.
It is the distance endurance type exercises that grow the most brain cells. I notice on TV that sprinters are mostly negroes.
Then mile runners are mostly white may be why they get higher test scores and grades.
Cheap used paper books everywhere so poverty cannot explain inability to read. Phones are very expensive and addictive causing fried brains.

You need to be on your feet in the sun all day.
You need 10,000 steps per day.
Better yet a combination of pickleball, tennis, racketball, pingpong, errands, lawn work, house work, dancing, fencing, sword fighting, spear throwing, javelin, discus, hurdles, sprinting, mile run, ….

Swimming is very important, low injury, suntan without over heating. Water contains electrons, anti-inflammatory good for brain, joints… Bigger the better: Oceans and lakes and rivers.
Fresh water has no sharks, jaws,…
Plug your feet in the pool daily to charge your brain with electrons.
Free if you move to the right location Honolulu Biloxi Galveston Michigan fresh lake water?

Colorado the 2nd longest life state with lots of white people so ice is not the main problem.
Minnesota is the 3rd healthiest state also white and very cold, frozen in winter. Mississippi the poorest sickest blackest state but they do not die in falls.

If you do not get enough bright sunshine reflected off the snow while skiing,
then you go to the casinos movies bars sports and alcohol drugs tobacco marijuana kratom vape yourself to death.
Outdoor sports cross country ski in Minnesota less dangerous than downhill ski in Colorado?
I ice skated on Walden Pond Massachusetts, and other lakes and rinks several times per week. cross country ski every night in New York. downhill often too.

https://lite.cnn.com/2025/06/18/health/fall-risk-older-adults-wellness

Older adults in the US are increasingly dying from falls

Older U.S. adults are increasingly dying from falls,
with white people accounting for the vast majority of the deaths.

From 2003 to 2023, death rates from falls rose more than 70% for adults ages 65 to 74,

The rate increased more than 75% for people 75 to 84,

and more than doubled for seniors 85 and older.

more people living longer — to ages when falls are more likely to have deadly consequences.

More than 41,000 retirement-age Americans died of falls in 2023,

falls were blamed in about 1 of every 56 deaths

More than half of those 41,000 deaths were people 85 and older,

white people accounted for 87% of deaths in the oldest category.

Falls can cause head injuries or broken bones that can lead to permanent disability

trigger a cascade of other health problems.

A number of factors can contribute to falls, including

changes in hearing and vision

and medications that can cause light-headedness.

Death rates varied widely from state to state.

Wisconsin had the highest death rates from falls, followed by Minnesota,
Maine,
Oklahoma and
Vermont.

Wisconsin’s rate was more than five times higher than the rate of

the lowest state, Alabama.

Ice and wintry weather may partly explain why fatal falls were more common in states in the upper Midwest and New England,

but experts also pointed to other things at play,

like differences in how well falls are reported

and to what extent they are labeled a cause of death.

most other rates of illness and injury,
people of color are disproportionately affected.

Staying active can help people avoid falls, experts say.