How to remain healthy long into old age

[SlatchJim]

All the good eating and healthy living ..... Jim Fixx 1932-1984, Age 52 (the same age I am)

Some enemies can't be beaten with a great diet.

From Wikipedia:

On July 20, 1984, Fixx died at age 52 of a fulminant heart attack, after his daily run on Vermont Route 15 in Hardwick. The autopsy revealed that atherosclerosis had blocked one coronary artery 95%, a second 85%, and a third 70%.[3] Still, medical opinion continued to uphold the link between exercise and longevity.[4] In 1986 exercise physiologist Kenneth Cooper published an inventory of the risk factors that might have contributed to Fixx's death.[5] Granted access to his medical records and autopsy, and after interviewing his friends and family, Cooper concluded that Fixx was genetically predisposed (his father had a heart attack at 35 and died of another at 43, and Fixx himself had a congenitally enlarged heart), and had several lifestyle issues. Fixx was a heavy smoker prior to beginning running at age 36, he had a stressful occupation, he had undergone a second divorce, and his weight before he took up running had ballooned to 220 pounds (100 kg).

Therein lies the rub... and the enemy I face.  Genetics.

[supthecreek]

Life keeps many secrets from all of us.

I say... we should all dedicate a good chunk of our 'able" years to family, friends and pursuit of personal fulfillment.
It doesn't matter to me if I roll up to the beach in a Land Rover Range Rover  ($186,000) or a bicycle... as long as I have plenty of time to surf.
 
Mae West said it perfectly
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"

I really, really believe..... that the happy, well spent life, ends up longer  and mo'betta

Stress kills, contented smiles strengthens

[KiwiSupGreg]

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"

Hunter S Thompson


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[PonoBill]

^^^Who blew his own brains out with a .44. At least he used enough gun.  He was 67, a year younger than I. Personally, I think he was a wuss.

[mrbig]

Yeah. Took more dangerous drugs than Timothy Leary, Syd Barrett, and Keith Richards put together..

[SUPcheat]

Hunter was a drug and alcohol soaked bullshit artist who viewed everything through a veil of intoxication and grandiosity.  I would run from anything that he foisted as "advice" or wisdom.  I am pretty sure half the stuff he wrote about was made up.  The only question is, which half.

[Beasho]

From Ray Kurzweill I hope he is right:

His interest in health goes back to when he was 15 and his father, Fredric, had a heart attack. “He died when I was 22. He was 58.” Kurzweil realised he could inherit his father’s dispositions. In his thirties, he was diagnosed with type-two diabetes. Frustrated by conventional treatments, he “approached this as an inventor”. It has not returned. “You can overcome your genetic disposition. The common wisdom is it’s 80 per cent genes, 20 per cent lifestyle. If you’re diligent, it’s 90 per cent intervention and 10 per cent genes,” he claims.

PS:  This link is a little wonky, you might have to Google it:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9ed80e14-dd11-11e4-a772-00144feab7de.html#axzz3X1f7F700

PSS:  Oohhhhhh, Let me Google that for you.  Click on the first link to avoid all the committment.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=breakfast+with+ray+kurzweill

[surfinJ]

In the parking lot after the surf, on one of my last prone surfs at Malibu, I saw this old guy who'd been styling really long nose rides, by his VW bus. He was slim and fit and I asked him what his deal was to keep going so good.

Don't eat much, and sleep well.

[KiwiSupGreg]

He certainly lived to his word lol...but yeah I'd prefer moderately worn out at a ripe old age.


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[PonoBill]

taking advantage of a little thread wander, I always hated the stuff he wrote about motorcycles, even though the bikes he thought were cool are bikes I had and/or have. Ducati 900ss/sp and Ducati 916, Vincent Black Shadow, etc.. The stuff he wrote about was so overblown and the riding he wrote about was such obvious bullshit that it irritated the hell out of me. I don't mind a little drug-fueled hyperbole, but at some point you have to stick a cork in it.

[linter]

  What'd you think of Hells Angels?  Did that book pass your BS detector?
  In my early days, I was  a fact checker at Rolling Stone (which has been in a lot of trouble recently regarding "facts") and considered myself very lucky that I never had to check HST.  As I recall, anyone who seriously questioned him would wind up blistered and trembling.
  One day during a Hunter visit, my immediate boss was assigned the task of keeping him on the straight and narrow.  She failed.  Twenty four hours later, I'd never seen her look so beat up and dragged out.  Far from trying to curb his excesses, she joined in.  Had a great and terrible time.  I bet she has never suffered a moment's regret.

[PonoBill]

Hard to say, I think he did a lot of stuff, but when people talk aout things I know well, and they are full of crap, then I suspect they are generally full of it. If he was able to turn the head fact checker into a bullshit amplifier then I'd assume it was all fairyland.

[eastbound]

hells angels was a great book--read it in my teens along with tom wolfe and the other "new journalists".

fear and loathing was less appealing--try "kandy colored tangerine flake streamlined baby' by tom wolfe--for a nice short piece

[surfKnobby]

Hells Angels leader Sonny Barger said Hunter was a wimp and a shit talker.