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Some things to ponder as we get older:😅
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Posted on 12/16/2021 5:09:30 AM PST by sodpoodle

An assist to aging🤔

The inventor of the treadmill died at the age of 54

The inventor of gymnastics died at the age of 57

The world bodybuilding champion died at the age of 41

The best soccer player in the world, Maradona, died at the age of 60

And then..

Kentucky Fried Chicken inventor died at 94

Inventor of Nutella brand died at the age of 88

Cigarette maker Winston died at the age of 102

Hennessy inventor died at 98

The inventor of opium died at the age of 116 in an earthquake

How did doctors come to the conclusion that exercise prolongs life?

The rabbit is always jumping, but it lives for only 2 years.

The turtle that doesn't exercise at all, lives 400 years.

So … Have a drink ...🤗

Take a nap ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: jokes; relax
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To: sodpoodle

Huge fan of naps!


21 posted on 12/16/2021 6:16:05 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: sodpoodle

Jim Fixx.......................

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx


22 posted on 12/16/2021 6:23:44 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: yetidog

Well, it convinced him when he heard it. :-)

Exercise makes me feel better but I’m not an athlete so it’s never overdone. Getting my heartrate up some clears the brain fog, helps my mood, helps me sleep, and lowers my BP and cholesterol. I’m probably in the middle ground zone.


23 posted on 12/16/2021 6:34:03 AM PST by Tennessee Conservative (My goal in life is to be the person my dog's think I am)
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To: sodpoodle

I believe drinking alcohol makes you smarter. They say it kills brain cells. It makes sense that the poorest cells are killed first. That leaves only the smart cells behind leaving you smarter with every drink.


24 posted on 12/16/2021 6:48:24 AM PST by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: sodpoodle

Good to know. 😆


25 posted on 12/16/2021 6:58:05 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Owen

Very interesting stats.


26 posted on 12/16/2021 7:27:00 AM PST by libh8er
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To: Owen
The taller you are, the earlier you die on average. It was once thought this data was skewed by warfare (better target), but no, the data holds up for LEs measured beginning past military age. Current theory is bigger people have more cells in which something can go wrong.

Might be the reason you’ll commonly see little old men and little old ladies. Not too common to hear about big old men and big old ladies.

27 posted on 12/16/2021 7:28:18 AM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: sodpoodle

Jim Fixx, 52, inventor of the jogging craze, dropped dead in NYC of a heart attack, in 1984.


28 posted on 12/16/2021 7:29:01 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: sodpoodle

Gramps said to cut him some slack since he’s never been this old and hadn’t experienced it before.


29 posted on 12/16/2021 7:31:54 AM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: BubbaBasher

“NORM!”


30 posted on 12/16/2021 7:32:02 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. STILL)
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To: fidelis

Big old people fall harder than little old people. Except for the really frail tinder sticks.


31 posted on 12/16/2021 7:33:42 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. STILL)
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To: sodpoodle

Anybody remember Euell Gibbons? He was popular for a time in the 1970s, an advocate for living a natural life style, eating natural foods, etc. He died at the age of 64.


32 posted on 12/16/2021 7:41:31 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: oldvirginian

Churchill’s hobbies were painting and bricklaying.


33 posted on 12/16/2021 9:01:35 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Watch "THE CHOSEN," about Jesus & the disciples He chose: https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen)
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To: GreenHornet

I remember Johnny Carson using him for great joke material 🙂


34 posted on 12/16/2021 9:19:47 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: GreenHornet

He must have eaten the non-edible parts of a pine tree


35 posted on 12/16/2021 9:27:35 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Hebrews 11:6

England was his passion. I doubt anyone alive at the time was more passionate about England than The Last Edwardian.

Churchill did love painting, he spent his later years painting landscapes.

Bricklaying when done as a hobby isn’t labor but the release of stress through producing something productive.
When you are Winston Churchill you bloody well get to decide what your hobbies are!

BTW, Churchill had a terrible lisp as a child. He would spend hours in front of a mirror reciting books and poetry. He watched every movement of lips and tongue until he had rid himself of the lisp.
His war time doctor could tell when Churchill was especially tired because the lisp would creep back in.


36 posted on 12/16/2021 9:52:35 AM PST by oldvirginian (So if a cow doesn’t produce milk, is it a milk dud or an udder failure?)
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To: BubbaBasher

Reminds me of the SNL skit with Garrett Morris as Idi Amin holding up a piece of Swiss cheese to signify how only the unimportant parts of his brain had been destroyed.


37 posted on 12/16/2021 9:56:26 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets........Now, we are them.)
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To: sodpoodle

Maybe I’ll try a little opium. Anyone know of a good opium den?

Actually, when in Singapore, I ventured out very early one morning, in time to see old men coming out of basement opium dens looking very happy indeed.

Not sure whether Singapore has opium dens anymore, but your local big city probably does. For a price.


38 posted on 12/16/2021 10:03:32 AM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Owen

I’m 85. My doc says I’ll live to be 100.
5’2 118 lb woman who has taken a dozen nutritional supplements every morning for 50 years cuz I read the right books back then.

I love the gym, lift weights and did a mile on the treadmill, every morning until idiot idiot guv closed the gyms for covid. Slowly struggling to get back in shape. Muscular strength is best indicator of living long life.

I also sleep 8 - 10 hours every night. Always have.


39 posted on 12/16/2021 10:10:12 AM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Veto!

I probably should have mentioned a rather big effect.

You gotta choose your parents well. 40% is likely genetic.


40 posted on 12/16/2021 11:08:59 AM PST by Owen
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