We do the gym, pilates and walking. Motion is lotion for your body and joints ... being sedentary leads to muscle atrophy and weakness, leading to falls, leading to hospital visits leading to death.
It's not hard, folks. Get an iPod, download your favorites, slap on your sneakers and hit the road and WALK. Daily. After a spell, you find yourself craving it and certainly feeling better afterwards.
We either pay now with exercise and controlled eating or we pay later with poor health, immobility, illness, and misery ... and the latter is a far higher price to pay.
I think it’s basically a crap shoot, and there are so many factors involved. Genes. Attitude. Attitude is huge I believe. If course I don’t know. Does anybody, really, except God?
My sanctimonious aunt was OCD about her exercise ritual, diet, and lifestyle in general. She was scoldy about it, criticizing those who weren’t like her. We called her “Aunt Church Lady”. She even looked like the SNL character - LOL!
Mom was the opposite, and a few years older than ACL. She didn’t exercise, and she ate what she wanted —basically the farmers diet she grew up eating. ACL died at 90; Mom died at 99.
ACL was uptight and rigid. Mom was live-and-let-live. Both were very social (preachers wives, so a lot of interaction with others).
When ACL retired she focused on herself and didn’t volunteer to help others. Mom was accompanying award-winning choruses on the piano until she was 90 — played piano for church on her 99th birthday.
[Sigh] it’s a mystery.