"gds" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Zoot Katz said:On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:41:25 -0800, [email hidden]
(Tom Keats) said:I think too-comfortable and too-hard-to-get-out-of furniture is
a leading cause of sedentarism.When you look at the agility of old people in floor sitting cultures
and compare that to those in our overstuffed lifestyle that's obvious.That is an interesting observation. There are also cultures that
feature low squatting rather than sitting with the same outcome.
I think all of the above observations are loony and have nothing to do with
anything.
Quoted message said:I'd hazard a guess that those cultures also have low caloric intake
relative to intake and active lifestyles with the resulting lack of
obesity and many of the health problems that prematurely effect the
elderly in "modern" society.Even in our modern society and with the use of comfortable furniture I
think that you wuld find that that oldsters who are lean, excersize
regularly and are moderate in their eating will have health and fitness
measures that are more similar to the floor sitters and squatters than
to their overweight and out of shape peers. Even if they have Barca
loungers.To the OP. That's the goal and it is achievable. My cycling crowd
ranges in age mostly from the mid 40's to mid 70's. The regulars are
all fit and lean and seem to split 50/50 as to having been that way all
their lives and folks who achieved that state after letting themselves
go for a while. One of the strongest in the group began cycling after
having an angioplasty ~7 years ago @50. Now he is fit, lean,..... and
fast ;-)
Activity is the key. Have any of you ever really looked at those
Mediterranean hill towns that dot that entire area. My God, you have to be
part mountain goat just to go about your daily chores.
However, the problem is that as you get older your activity level will go
down no matter how well intentioned you are to keep it up. You don't think
this will happen to you, but it will. By age 70 it will be a struggle to get
going. It is partly mental, but it is mostly physical. Every cell in your
body is shutting down and there is not one g.d. thing you can do about it.
You are just kind of tired all the time. Trust me on this, it will happen to
you sooner or later!
"I grow old . I grow old .
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."
T.S.Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota