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Will
I Live Longer
When one ponders longevity many things go into play. Our
bodies are a bit like a car; if you run it fast and hard and
never change the oil, grease the axles or change the fluids
you can just about bank that this car will face an early
destination to the auto bone yard. The valves will clog (i.e.
arteries), the tires will wear out (i.e. heart) and the engine
will eventually freeze up (massive coronary). So yes, if we
pamper our bodies it's definitely worth the payoff. This
translates into nutritious eating, vitamins, exercise and
avoiding habitual substances such as alcohol and tobacco.
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Confused and Frustrated
Technology has lunged us forward. Most of us
have docile jobs with little activity and great stress. At
quitting time we retreat to our humble abodes and spend the
evening resting up, generally watching other people do
massive activity via television through shows such as
Survivor and Boot Camp, while eating our 2-bag allotment of low fat
potato chips. Do you ever notice that when they reduce the
number of calories on a goody-item that we tend to eat more
rather than reap the benefits intended? "Oh, it has
half the calories so now I can eat twice as much. How
ingenious! How wonderful!" Then five years later,
"I just don't understand why I had that massive
coronary. I eat so healthy - lowfat and lots of it."
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Exercise
What a nasty word. The New World definition might be as
follows: "Sweat, grind, sweat, pump, sweat, run, sweat,
puff, sweat, sweat."
In the happy golden days there was no need for abs-busting,
thigh-pinching, arm-routing machines. Farmers plowed their
fields (literally) and generally burned several thousand
calories per day, depending on the amount of offspring one
had. The more helpers, the less he burned.
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That aside, at quitting time they'd
retreat to their humble abodes and spend the evening
resting up, generally watching their clock set in the
western sky as mom dolled out piles of lye soap from the
cauldron adjacent to the back porch.
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