RE: How else do you maximize health?

[Guest guest]

I do yoga and try to weight lift 3 or more times a week. I mow the lawn

for the exercise and try to walk 1/2 mile or more a day in addition to all

the walking I do in the course of the day. I don't always achieve these

goals every day though.

on 8/5/2003 8:11 AM, paultheo2000 at paultheo2000@... wrote:

> I'd like to know what other steps you guys take to maximize

> health/longevity except for applying CRON. Things like sleep, social

> relationships, stress, exercise.

>

> Cheers,

>

> -Zulu

>

>

[Guest guest]

Sleep is important. A good book to read is The Promise of Sleep, by

Dement MD. It offers useful advice.

Stress reduction and exercise are useful. While some argue that exercise

increases caloric load and is a negative, the immediate benefits of at least

moderate exercise (resistance and cardio) are hard to ignore. When I was

engaged in the rat race I also found exercise useful to mitigate job related

stress.

Positive social relationships correlate with positive health but I am not

aware of scientific basis.

JR

-----Original Message-----

From: paultheo2000 [mailto:paultheo2000@...]

Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 7:11 AM

Subject: [ ] How else do you maximize health?

I'd like to know what other steps you guys take to maximize

health/longevity except for applying CRON. Things like sleep, social

relationships, stress, exercise.

Cheers,

-Zulu

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

I'm big on accident prevention, without being paranoid of course. Prevent what's going to kill you.

Common sense things...seat belts, defensive driving. Don't weave in and out of traffic. Don't tail gate. Pay attention, be alert. Never continue driving when your eyelids feel heavy. Many people think that heavy-eyelid feeling is the first stage of drowsiness. Sleep researcher DeMent points out that heavy-eyelids are actually the LAST stage of WAKEFULNESS.

Replace the batteries in your smoke detectors.

Wear sunscreen.

I'm one of those idiots who reads the Darwin Awards and thinks, "Gee, I do THAT all the time! I could've died!" I'm not cautious by nature, so I've tried to become somewhat more safety conscience.

Suz

----- Original Message -----

From: paultheo2000

Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:11 AM

Subject: [ ] How else do you maximize health?

I'd like to know what other steps you guys take to maximizehealth/longevity except for applying CRON. Things like sleep, socialrelationships, stress, exercise. Cheers, -Zulu

[Guest guest]

Interesting you should bring up accidents. I always felt that one of the

big reasons that women outlive men is that men are more daring in their

youth and kill themselves off (car accidents, speeding, drinking, etc). The

high testosterone and all in youths.

Speaking of accidents, in some countries abroad , the car accident death

rate is very high. In Israel where the ultra religious (a small but

powerful group) have gotten a law passed where the traffic lights are turned

off on the Sabbath - the vast majority of people (who are not that

religious) drive anyway and more people have been killed in car accidents

there than all wars that Israel has been in. On the Sabbath it's like the

crazy bumper car ride in the amusement park with cars going every which way

and beeping their brains out. A pedestrian crossing the street on the

Sabbath is at quite a risk of being killed too.

on 8/5/2003 1:55 PM, Suzanne Cart at massuz@... wrote:

> Hi ,

>

> I'm big on accident prevention, without being paranoid of course. Prevent

> what's going to kill you.

>

> Common sense things...seat belts, defensive driving. Don't weave in and out

> of traffic. Don't tail gate. Pay attention, be alert. Never continue

> driving when your eyelids feel heavy. Many people think that heavy-eyelid

> feeling is the first stage of drowsiness. Sleep researcher DeMent

> points out that heavy-eyelids are actually the LAST stage of WAKEFULNESS.

>

> Replace the batteries in your smoke detectors.

>

> Wear sunscreen.

>

> I'm one of those idiots who reads the Darwin Awards and thinks, " Gee, I do

> THAT all the time! I could've died! " I'm not cautious by nature, so I've

> tried to become somewhat more safety conscience.

>

> Suz

[Guest guest]

Regarding relationships, stress and health, there is an area of research

within health psychology called " psychoneuroimmunology " that responds to

numerous interesting questions. The research generally pertains to the

interaction of emotions/personality factors and immune functioning. Suzanne

Segerstrom at UK, and Janis Keicolt-Glaser (not sure where) are two

prominent researchers in this area. (I'm sure I've spelled Keicolt-Glaser

incorrectly). Some random but memorable findings of this literature include

things such as: laughing improves immune response, optimistic personality

traits promote resistance to infection (when all other known relevant

variables are controlled), talking to acquaintances increases the production

of 5-HT (Serotonin). This research domain is growing rapidly in the last

5-10 years.

R.

-----Original Message-----

From: john roberts [mailto:johnhrob@...]

Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:50 AM

Subject: RE: [ ] How else do you maximize health?

Sleep is important. A good book to read is The Promise of Sleep, by

Dement MD. It offers useful advice.

Stress reduction and exercise are useful. While some argue that exercise

increases caloric load and is a negative, the immediate benefits of at least

moderate exercise (resistance and cardio) are hard to ignore. When I was

engaged in the rat race I also found exercise useful to mitigate job related

stress.

Positive social relationships correlate with positive health but I am not

aware of scientific basis.

JR

-----Original Message-----

From: paultheo2000 [mailto:paultheo2000@...]

Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 7:11 AM

Subject: [ ] How else do you maximize health?

I'd like to know what other steps you guys take to maximize

health/longevity except for applying CRON. Things like sleep, social

relationships, stress, exercise.

Cheers,

-Zulu

[Guest guest]

Wow, this type of enthusiasm is exemplary -- Warren

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Francesca Skelton [mailto:fskelton@...]

> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:29 AM

>

> Subject: Re: [ ] How else do you maximize health?

>

>

> I do yoga and try to weight lift 3 or more times a week. I mow the lawn

> for the exercise and try to walk 1/2 mile or more a day in addition to all

> the walking I do in the course of the day. I don't always achieve these

> goals every day though.

>

>

> on 8/5/2003 8:11 AM, paultheo2000 at paultheo2000@... wrote:

>

> > I'd like to know what other steps you guys take to maximize

> > health/longevity except for applying CRON. Things like sleep, social

> > relationships, stress, exercise.

> >

> > Cheers,

> >

> > -Zulu