Keeping Fit is A Daily Battle

A young, trim farmer with four or more children: According to a new study, that’s the ideal profile for American men hoping to reach 100 years of age.

If you watch some documentaries on time and why people live as long as they do, one of the more common theories on the length of life depends on how often and how many new things you experience. Time goes faster when your doing something new, as in return its much slower when your doing things repetitive or common until time slows down so much you eventually pass away.Thats of course pushing aside medical issues. So in relation to that theory that would explain why he lived so long, but who really knows?

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Here’s an interesting (but scary) food fact - “The food industry spends $25 billion a year marketing their products, the government spends just $1 million advertising its new food guidelines of five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.” No wonder, we’re getting fatter. Oh well, it’s just another excuse for being fat.

The choice of what, how much, and how often, to eat is not controlled entirely by rational thought. If it were, most people would die of starvation. Evolution has hardwired us with a compulsion to eat, with a bias towards over-eating and against under-eating. Fast food marketing affects us on that primal, sub-conscious, non-rational level, and is *definitely* *directly* responsible for some percentage of the excess weight in our country.

That’s not to say the overeaters themselves are blameless, but for many of them, a world sans fast food ads, even with everything else remaining the same, would be a world where they are thinner than they are now.

What, do you think they’d make the ads if they didn’t work?

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This is from dumblittleman.com- “A few of the original readers of DLM may remember my article about quitting smoking. Well, after hearing that my father-in-law gave up coffee and caffeine 8 months ago and how it’s impacted him, I decided to do the same.”

Good article, but I don’t agree with abstaining from coffee at all and how it will make you healthier. The key is moderation. Too much is too much. But a couple cups a day won’t hurt you.

Moderate coffee drinking can actually be very beneficial. Coffee itself is loaded with anti-oxidants, and caffeine in reasonable doses is good for neural health.

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