Living Old, Loving Young

Upon my return for our 55th Lufkin High School reunion I wrote this ditty. (TS Eliot beware.) If a 1962 LHS graduate will write the music, the LHS choir will sing it and we can give all the proceeds to the LHS Scholarship Fund. Well...maybe not all.

I've lost my hair

No breath to spare

Losing my mind

No teeth to grind

My joints have wore

My feet are sore

My chin has tripled

My legs are crippled

If I think of you

My troubles are few

You make life new

When I'm with you

Ten Ways to Live Longer

1. Have parents who live a long time
2. Exercise 60 minutes six times daily
3. Have an optimistic personality = 55% lower risk of death
4. Drink 3-5 ounces of red wine daily.  Resveratrol, a Sirtuin-activating molecule found in red wine, may prolong life by enhancing SIR2
5. Increase socializing with happy, interesting, positive friends
6. Love someone who loves you in return
7. Have something to look forward too
8. Find work you enjoy
9. Don’t worry, be happy. “In life you will have some trouble, if you worry you make it double.”
10. Weigh 10% less than your ideal weight—the only guaranteed way to exceed life expectancy

• Evidence suggests that a semi-starvation diet causes stress that activates SIR2 and related genes (collectively known as Sirtuins) that improve health and prolong life
• At least 19 plant compounds modulate Sirtuins suggesting that the plants produce their own SIR2 enzymes when they suffer certain stressful conditions

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Thanks, John

Immigration Overload: A Weight Wait

A British woman planning to start a new life with her husband in New Zealand was banned from entering the country because she was too fat. According to a British newspaper, The Daily Mail, Rowan Trezise, 33, remained in England while her husband, Richie, 35, had already made the move down under leaving her desperately trying to lose weight. Initially the couple was denied entry into the country because their excessive poundage caused a potential burden on the New Zealand health care system. Richie lost weight and gained entry. Rowan gained weight and lost Richie.
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Happy Chemicals

Mind-body research (psychoneuroimmunology) has show that negative thoughts produce stress hormones. Optimistic thoughts cause the release of endorphins and other beneficial brain chemicals causing good feelings. What we think determines how we feel.  

Thoughts of three historical figures underscore the psychoneuroimmunology research findings: 

• Napoleon who had power, riches, and glory said, "I have never known six happy days in my life."
• Helen Keller, rendered blind and deaf from childhood meningitis, declared, "I have found life so beautiful. " 
• The blind poet, Milton, wrote, "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. "

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A Close Encounter of the Spiritual Kind

  

Buckner Fanning, former pastor of a San Antonio mega-church, told about his daughter who worked for Child Protective Services:

One night a disheveled five-year-old came to the shelter. The girl told that her father would beat her mother pounding her body against the wall, slamming her head on the floor, hitting her repeatedly. When the beatings began the little girl would run into her room, close the door tightly and get in her bed shaking and sobbing, pitifully terrified.

At the shelter after the girl was fed, washed, and cleaned, she was trucked into her bed. When the counselor left her room the four-year-old began singing softly, “Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so.” Surprised the counselor re-entered the child’s room.

“Did your mother teach you that song?”

“No.”

“Do you go to church or Sunday School?”

“No.”

“Did you learn that song in kindergarten?”

“No.”

“How did you learn that song?”

“Every time my father beats my mother a man surrounded by a sparkling white light comes into my room. He holds my hand and sings that song.”  

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