midwestgb
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March 21st, 2012 at 7:22:07 PM permalink
Reading the Wizard's recent blog posts on his Dad got me to thinking about health tips. Here are a couple my favorites...

1. Eat dried fruit, especially Apricots. The pectin is great for your overall heart and also digestive health. I have had two doctors of completely different specialties specifically recommend dried apricots to me.

2. Chew one or two baby aspirin each day, and keep a bottle or two handy at home and your car. If you ever suspect heart attack symptoms, chew several immediately. Every friend who has had a heart attack tells me this was the first line of treatment they received in the E.R.

What are yours?
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March 21st, 2012 at 7:33:57 PM permalink
Drink one ounce of water per two pounds of body weight per day.
(Metric: Approx. 32.5 ml per kg)
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March 21st, 2012 at 7:42:27 PM permalink
Exercise: front squats or back squats everyday. It's like a new girlfriend, it just feels right. Running is like a new boyfriend, it feels so very wrong. Don't every do that

Nutrition: buffet every day. Helps with finances, too
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March 21st, 2012 at 7:48:22 PM permalink
Get a dog, a small dog preferably. Dog owners live
longer than non dog owners. Dogs are great.
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March 21st, 2012 at 8:00:25 PM permalink
Quit smoking.
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March 21st, 2012 at 8:32:03 PM permalink
Plenty of water, eat lots of fish and get enough sleep (dont over sleep).

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March 21st, 2012 at 10:18:06 PM permalink
Play cards and dice at least once a week. It clears the mind of troublesome heavy issues, and it puts things in perspective.
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March 21st, 2012 at 11:14:10 PM permalink
An apple a day keeps the doctor away... if your aim is good enough.
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March 22nd, 2012 at 2:51:21 AM permalink
No smoking for me is a crucial way to keep healthy!
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March 22nd, 2012 at 4:46:56 AM permalink
No smoking.
No [illegal] drugs.
No booze.
No stress.
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March 22nd, 2012 at 7:10:24 AM permalink
take fish oil daily...it is the blood streams lubricant
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March 22nd, 2012 at 7:19:44 AM permalink
I think the number one health tip would be to reduce stress in your life. Stress leads to unhealthy habits, including addictions and poor eating choices. Stress leads to a greater incidence of all sicknesses and disease.

I do like the baby aspirin tip - once you're into the heart attack years, probably a good bet to keep them around.
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March 22nd, 2012 at 8:14:36 AM permalink
Don't mess with Grandpa Joe when he's been drinking.
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March 22nd, 2012 at 8:27:50 AM permalink
Quote: FleaStiff

An apple a day keeps the doctor away... if your aim is good enough.



Nice!

Seriously, if limited to just one thing, it is to try to do some kind of cardiovascular exercise every day. Whatever gets your heart rate up, and preferably for at least 20 minutes. Do something you enjoy, and mix it up a bit, to prevent boredom. I mainly do running and swimming. Since I started exercising on a regular basis about six years ago I lost 20 pounds, kept it off, and feel much better.

Speaking of exercising, if anyone on the west side of town would like to get together for tennis on a weekly basis, let me know. I don't know how to measure my skill, but I'm strictly a recreational player. Better than most, but worse than most people who actually own a tennis outfit.
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March 22nd, 2012 at 8:35:01 AM permalink
I am reminded of the words of Mark Twain that are often misquoted by many, and too frequently by me. In this excerpt, he is talking about an ill woman that he tried to advise.

Quote: Mark Twain -- from “Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World”

She had run down and down and down, and had at last reached a point where medicines no longer had any helpful effect upon her. I said I knew I could put her upon her feet in a week. It brightened her up, it filled her with hope, and she said she would do everything I told her to do. So I said she must stop swearing and drinking, and smoking and eating for four days, and then she would be all right again.

And it would have happened just so, I know it; but she said she could not stop swearing, and smoking and drinking, because she had never done those things. So there it was. She had neglected her habits, and hadn’t any. Now that they would have come good, there were none in stock. She had nothing to fall back on. She was a sinking vessel, with no freight in her to throw overboard and lighten ship withal.

Why, even one or two little bad habits could have saved her, but she was just a moral pauper. When she could have acquired them she was dissuaded by her parents, who were ignorant people though reared in the best society, and it was too late to begin now. It seemed such a pity; but there was no help for it. These things ought to be attended to while a person is young; otherwise, when age and disease come, there is nothing effectual to fight them with.

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March 22nd, 2012 at 9:43:21 AM permalink
don't over weight
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March 22nd, 2012 at 10:30:59 AM permalink
Quote: Doc

I am reminded of the words of Mark Twain



In the late 19th century smoking and drinking were
reviled by polite society, and enjoyed by Mark Twain.
On the speaking tours that he took up to make money
in the last 15 years of his life, Twain loved to rub his
bad habits in the audiences noses.

Cigarette smoking is one of those habits that was created
by advertising. The public wasn't demanding manufactured
cigarettes, the tobacco companies created a demand for
them.
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March 22nd, 2012 at 10:33:29 AM permalink
Your heart has a finite amount of beats in it. Don't waste them by doing things that increase your heart rate like exercise.

Mark
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March 22nd, 2012 at 10:46:00 AM permalink
Quote: marksolberg

Your heart has a finite amount of beats in it. Don't waste them by doing things that increase your heart rate like exercise.

Mark



There is an argument for this way of thinking.
Before modern labor saving devices, people
worked a lot harder than they do now and they
certainly didn't live longer because of it. Many
people worked themselves to death physically.
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March 22nd, 2012 at 11:02:49 AM permalink
Not sure if this counts as a health tip, but it's how I try to view things: If you can get out of bed on your own, pee on your own, and poop on your own, then your life is pretty darn good. Get out and live it.
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March 22nd, 2012 at 11:11:27 AM permalink
Quote: EvenBob

There is an argument for this way of thinking.



I think, and would hope, the OP was joking.
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March 22nd, 2012 at 11:13:09 AM permalink
Quote: Wizard

I think, and would hope, the OP was joking.



The human mind can rationalize anything. How else do you explain religion?

Mark
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March 22nd, 2012 at 11:55:59 AM permalink
Quote: marksolberg

The human mind can rationalize anything. How else do you explain religion?

Well, how about this, from today's comics:

Pearls Before Swine
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