Hey relax! Scientists say loafing could extend your life

Vancouver Sun ^ | January 10, 2005 | Roya Nikkhah

[zarf]

How bout running Marathons and being lazy?

Eating the right foods counters most of the ill effects of heavy excersise....but these idiots wont tell you that.

[Barney59]

Genetics.

[peacebaby]

So Dick Cavett is interviewing Jimmy Hendrix, and Dick Cavett asks: "Well, what's the first thing you do in the morning?"

To which Jimmy Hendrix replied, "Well, I try to get up."

[Studebaker Hawk]

This great! I've been on the right track after all.

[jpl]

I was making this argument to my parents years ago. It's good to see that science has finally come around to my way of thinking.

[MikeHu]

It takes two to tangle.

Just as important as activity and stimulus, is rest and recovery -- the silence between the notes that makes music. Especially as people get older or live very busy lives, they need to recover from those challenges and stimuli. If an organism (person) is stimulated unceasingly, it begins to break down rather than grow stronger to accommodate these increased workloads.

The strongest guy in the room is almost never the guy picking fights with everybody. He's the guy who's so relaxed that nothing threatens him.

[GSlob]

It not only promotes longer life, but also improves evolutionary prospects, at least for the humans: being too lazy (or afraid) of going after the game barehanded - our ancestors made stone axes, and then bows and arrows. The lazy monkey evolved into a human, while the industrious monkey is still a monkey and shines up and down the banana tree even to this day. I'd say that our prospects have never looked brighter!

[thoughtomator]

This means I'll be FReeping well into the year 3000! Hoo-rah!

[B4Ranch]

Have you got your retirement fully financed for another 50 years? I guess the only cure if not is to kieep working! Yuck!

[ladtx]

Great!! This combined with my theory that jogging causes cancer of the kneecaps gives me greater impetus to buy a new recliner.

[zarf]

"If you do a lot of sport or are permanently stressed, then your body will produce more free radicals and that is one reason why your life could be shortened."

A diet rich in antioxidants can counter the ill effects of heavy exercise.

Oh never mind, that would involve some effort.

[ClearCase_guy]

"The last gym I was in moved to Florida" (Elton John)

Are you sure it isn't: "The last Jim I was in moved to Florida"?

[Puppage]

Didn't wanna get flamed.

[B4Ranch]

What? Teenagers know more than the parents? Oh crap, I hope my kids don't find out I was wrong.

[InterceptPoint]

I'm never going to die.

That was, IMHO, one of the all time great comments on an article from Freeperland. You should be proud.

[Rudder]

"The last gym I was in moved to Florida" (Elton John)

Nasty

LOL

[Continental Soldier]

LOL

[garyhope]

Within limits, living long could be a good thing, but living well while you are alive is better. I don't think you necessarily want to live TOO long if you're a helpless vegetable.

Life is short, use the good crystal, the good dishes, drive your Ferrari more, eat more butter with your baked, cream, cheese, wine, champagne, eat the big steaks and have as much sex as you can manage or connive. Laugh often, get plenty of sleep.

[Rennes Templar]

Catnaps do it for me. 20 min and I'm ready for anything.

[beavus]

The prospect of never dying is quite depressing to me, but I'm far too lazy for suicide. Ironic, huh?