SAN ANTONIO A Texas reporter ditched the How much wood would a woodchuck chuck tongue twister and chose to rap the "Alphabet Aerobics" for her warm up, and the video showing the impressive feat has garnered more than 330,000 views since Sunday.

In the YouTube video, KWES (Odessa) reporter Kim Powell almost perfectly raps to the challenging song Alphabet Aerobics by Blackalicious before her live broadcast. After rapping for a minute and a half while swaying to her beat she signs off with the classic-but-often-overused mic drop.

For the record, I did it A Capella and the music was added later on. I'm not entirely off beat ;), she Tweeted on Monday.

Powell admitted on Facebook that she normally warms up for live shots by rapping, but she didnt realize it'd be going viral a few days later.

Her followers on social media are calling her performance impressive and are even comparing it to actor Daniel Radcliffs take on Alphabet Aerobics on the Jimmy Fallons Tonight Show.

You crushed Daniel Radcliffe's version! Maybe you should have been on Jimmy Fallon, one Facebook commenter wrote, while another said, This is your chance to get on Ellen.

Powell said on Twitter that the craze has made Monday one of the strangest days of her life, adding that she was praised, insulted and proposed to.

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By Dr. Mercola

Scientists have been linking the benefits of physical exercise to brain health for many years, but new research is making it clear that the two aren't just simply related; rather, it is THE relationship.

As reported by The New York Times, new evidence shows that physical exercise helps you build a brain that not only resists shrinkage, but increases cognitive abilitiesi.

A study of mice produced a powerful illustration of just how influential physical exercise is on your brainii.

The mice were divided into four groups that included a group that had plenty of access to stimulating and sensual activities.

But only one group had a running wheel in their cagesand when the cognitive tests were completed, it turned out that being able to use the running wheel was the only thing that mattered in determining how well they did on the tests.

According to the New York Times:

"Animals that exercised, whether or not they had any other enrichments in their cages, had healthier brains and performed significantly better on cognitive tests than the other mice.

Animals that didn't run, no matter how enriched their world was otherwise, did not improve their brainpower in the complex, lasting ways that Rhodes's team was studying.

"They loved the toys," Rhodes says, and the mice rarely ventured into the empty, quieter portions of their cages.

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Exercise has been touted to be a cure for nearly everything in life, from depression, to memory loss, Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons and more. At the same time, similar to the topic of sleep, I found myself having very little specific and scientific knowledge about what exercise really does to our bodies and our brains.

Yes, yes, I know all about it, thats the thing with the endorphins, that makes you feel good and why we should exercise and stuff, right? is what I can hear myself say to someone bringing this up. I would pick up things here and there, yet really digging into the connection of exercise and how it effects us has never been something Ive done.

Inspired by a recent post from Joel on what makes us happy Ive set out to uncover the connection between our feeling of happiness and exercising regularly.

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Most of us are aware of what happens to the body when we exercise. We build more muscle or more stamina. We feel how daily activities like climbing stairs becomes easier if we exercise regularly. When it comes to our brain and mood though, the connection isnt so clear.

The line around our endorphins are released is more something I throw around to sound smart, without really knowing what it means. Here is what actually happens:

If you start exercising, your brain recognizes this as a moment of stress. As your heart pressure increases, the brain thinks you are either fighting the enemy or fleeing from it. To protect yourself and your brain from stress, you release a protein called BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor). This BDNF has a protective and also reparative element to your memory neurons and acts as a reset switch. Thats why we often feel so at ease and things are clear after exercising and eventually happy.

At the same time, endorphins, another chemical to fight stress, is released in your brain. Your endorphins main purpose is this writes researcher McGovern:

These endorphins tend to minimize the discomfort of exercise, block the feeling of pain and are even associated with a feeling of euphoria.

Overall, there is a lot going on inside our brain and it is in fact oftentimes a lot more active than when we are just sitting down or actually concentrating mentally:

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