Posted on 01/25/2005 10:43:52 AM PST by nickcarraway
What about us "keyboard cruisers"? Rarely sit on the sofa and watch tv, but often have the computer up and running!
I forgot what this article is about.
I heard... if you have a brain, you could be at risk for uh... wait... I can't remember.
I think our pajamas shield us form any danger of this.
Man, I gotta get out running today.
Oh.......the down side of the industrial revolution.
"I forgot what this article is about."
very funny!
BTTT for later
While he was something of a couch potato at home, he worked tirelessly from the days of the family farm, then he gave the Navy 22, then private industry until his retirement which he enjoyed maybe two or three years.
Retirement didn't agree with him; he had a series of strokes, causing dementia, wherein he required 24/7 supervision which I provided. He passed a couple Christmases ago.
He had been a smoker but who grew tobacco or was in the old Navy and didn't smoke? He quit in his 40's I think. He developed diabetes in his 50's but it was under control. I think a head injury he sustained probably caused things to progress, a bit like Reagan's horse accident.
For the one-minute exercise program see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1317883/posts
During the '80s when exercise gurus were trying to outdo each other by making exercise harder than anybody else's, I took the rather novel approach in thinking that exercise should be made as easy and inevitable as possible. Rather than just working with champion athletes, I also worked with the terminally ill, to which I thought, it did not make any sense for them to wait until they got well to be able to exercise. One had to design exercise to make the desperately ill better.
Its a completely FLAWED study, and so irrelvant.
ITs very simple... your brain is a 'muscle'. Like other muscles, if you don't use it, it decays, shrings, becomes less effective.
Work it reguarly, and LITERALLY your brain stays 'fit'.
For example... if you are a "couch potato" but are always watching "thought provoking" programming such as News, or Discovery Chanell, or History Channel, etc.
Of course if all you watch is "Fear Factor", you might have troubes.
Well, my mother in law has alzheimers...she does not have diabetes, high cholesterol, or hypertension...and she has never smoked. At 73, she still walks 3 miles a day, swims 30 laps in the pool and plays a mean game of golf (ok, she needs someone to keep track of her ball, so she doesn't forget), even as her mind deteriorates. I hate these articles that say, "if you do this/have this/...you'll get this disease". We're all gonna die of something. Life life to the fullest, take care of yourself, pray and hope for the best.
This article mixes Alzheimer's and dementia. They are two different conditions. Very poor reporting.
;)
Maybe as pc potatoes we are safe.
wait a sec...let me roll off this couch....
And everyone knows Troubes is the cause of all evils. I hate the Troubes.
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