Gardening experts Mickey and Vicky Popat join ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to celebrate National Gardening Week. Gardening could help aging adults stay sharp later in life , according to a recent study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland found that tending to gardens at an older age is associated with "small but detectable cognitive benefits.
" The long-term study tracked participants who shared details of their lifestyles and completed "frequent assessments" of their thinking skills up to age 90. ELLEN DEGENERES HAS OSTEOPOROSIS: HERE'S WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE PAINFUL BONE CONDITION The "Lothian Birth Cohort 1921" study followed people who were born in the Edinburgh area, starting at age 11. The participants regularly took an intelligence test known as the Scottish Mental Survey of 1932.
People who gardened frequently or occasionally showed "greater lifetime improvement in cognitive ability," the results found. (iStock) Hundreds of participants sat for the same exam at age 79. Out of 467 participants, 31% had never gardened, while 43% gardened regularly.
The results revealed that the 280 who gardened frequently or occasionally showed "greater lifetime improvement in cognitive ability compared with those who never gardened or rarely did so." OZEMPIC PUSH FOR SENIORS? SOME DOCTORS SAY MORE PEOPLE AGE 65 AND OVER SHOULD BE ON IT Between the ages of 79 and 90, the participants' cognitive ability — including .