Brain Awareness Week: Exercise enhances mental health
By Lauren Cole | March 22, 2011When I hear “aerobics,” I think Richard Simmons. Maybe it’s because of the memories I have as a 6-year-old watching my mom’s “Sweatin’ to the Oldies” VHS tape, using Coca-Cola cans as weights. But Simmons was actually quite the colorful energy behind our culture’s fitness craze toward the end of the 1970s.