Healthy Living

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While I'm actually only 52, this one says it all:

I recently picked a new primary care doctor. After two visits and
exhaustive Lab tests, he said I was doing 'fairly well' for my age.
(I just turned 60.)
A little concerned about that comment, I couldn't resist asking him,
'Do you think I'll live to be 80?' He asked, 'Do you smoke tobacco, or
drink beer or wine?'
'Oh no,' I replied.. 'I'm not doing drugs, either!'
Then he asked, 'Do you eat rib-eye steaks and barbecued ribs?
'I said, 'Not much... my former doctor said that all red meat is
very unhealthy!'
'Do you spend a lot of time in the sun, like playing golf, sailing,
hiking, or bicycling?'
'No, I don't,' I said.
He asked, 'Do you gamble, drive fast cars, or have a lot of sex?'
'No,' I said.
He looked at me and said,... 'Then, why do you even give a shit?

[SpiderGearsMan]

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easy living ....after seeing morphine drips and nursing homes , thinking the whole old age thing ain't what it is cracked up to be
be like Bernie Madoff , screw your friends and neighbors , live like a freakin king , set your kids up as little princes , take the rap , plea atonement ....
"Another former convict told the magazine that Madoff once said he could spin a globe, put his finger anywhere on it, "and chances are he had a house there or he'd been there."

Yet another prisoner recalled watching a "60 Minutes" segment about Madoff with Madoff, and remarking, admiringly, that he'd bilked his clients for millions.

Madoff corrected him: "No, billions."

His massive scheme has some inmates virtually worshipping him as a criminal legend who ultimately wound up a success, according to their twisted worldview.

"If I'd lived that well for 70 years, I wouldn't care that I ended up in prison," one said."

[pdub]

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And there's the guy I knew in person, a generation ahead of me, who said, "If I knew I was going to live so long, I'dda Taken a whole lotta better care of myself...."

That makes sense, almost. Almost. He was crazy, anyhow. Don't need drugs and alcohol if you're crazy to begin with.

[Barry Donovan]

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healthy living and old age.

My grandma used to always remind me of how young I am.

at 25, nearly worked to death, no real food, no real car, no real job, not even the women are real if you mention a job....


how old am I grandma?

to ponder how lucky it must have been for real air, more forest, living oin a rare hill with few neighbors looking at boston...cars fixed with pliers, twice the cubic inch for twice the gas mileage a fiftieth of the cost, and every part of the house is from some stainless tell nuclear proof heavy duty last forever mentality....


how old am I again?

I am half lifed like a nuclear bomb...

[TC]

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I'm only as old as I feel. I turned 40 last July and I'm starting to look at my friends and saying to myself what the hell. Sure I've got some gray hairs, but I have a lot of friends that are going bald. It also seems everyone I know has back problems, I don't. And even some others have major medical conditions, doctor says I'm as health as can be. Call it genetics, call it taking care of one's self, I feel young like in my 20's young. But then I've always lead an active lifestyle, from working out and playing sports to eating healthy pretty much my whole life. Most people I meet don't think I'm 40 usually get pegged for around 30 and I like to tell people I'm going to live to 130 years old, both sets of my grandparents lived well into their 90's and at 75 my dad is still able to haul around 90lb bags of cement. But then like me he worked manual labor his whole life.

Maybe the secret to life is working manual labor out in the sun keeping you young.

Well that and eating healthy and understanding nutrition and what the body needs to work properly. ;)

[HEMI]

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I vote for trhe original post.The day comes when I can't eat and drrink what
I want and can't drive my hot rod Model A,screw me into the ground.Don't
want live wearing diapers and fed thru a tube.

[Eagle Kammback]

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I've been trying to feel healthier lately, so I've been taking vitamins. But I don't know, I don't know. How many vitamins do you have to eat before you feel full? All I know is of my urine is amazing. It?s like going to a laser show. I go in there, I shut the lights off, I put Pink Floyd on.

[ch1ll]

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Just keep moving until the end, or the end has already come.

[tedly]

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Yeah smoking, drinking, partying, and eating lots of red meat will take years off your life. But it's the years at the end. The adult diaper wearing, no teeth, can't remember my own name years. I'll take that trade. To me it's about living life and getting as much enjoyment as you can, not how long you hang around. Everybody dies. Not everybody really lives.

[DanStokes]

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At 62 and with a bad ticker and a non-functional pancreas I'm closer to the end than most of you. But it continues to be a great ride. Having come close to death 3 times in 2 days I can tell you I don't fear death. What I fear is that half living half dead thing others have mentioned - Depends and drooling in an old folks home somewhere. Please trip over my plug and pull it out of the wall at that point. NO THANKS!

Dan

[tedly]

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I don't fear death. What I fear is that half living half dead thing...

Dan

That's it . Nail on the head right there.