Excerpts from "How to Feel GOOD As You Age" Page 1

How to Feel Good As You Age
A Voice of Experience
by John Barnett

If you do what you've always done,

you'll get what you've always got.

If you think what you've always thought,

you'll do what you've always done,

and you'll get what you've always got.

If you learn as you've always learned,

you'll think what you've always thought,

you'll do what you've always done,

and you'll get what you've always got.

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You have no control over the genes you inherited. But you have complete control over all three areas that can speed or slow the aging process. They are (1) your dietary habits, (2) how you handle emotional stress, and (3) your exercise or activities. Let's talk about exercise first. After eating, sleeping, and breathing, the most important thing you can do for yourself is to keep moving your body. It is true that we are all unique in the makeup of our genes, in how we accept stress, and in the functioning of our metabolic systems. But the biochemical response to exercise is the same for everyone. Exercise can go a long way to make up for deficiencies in other areas.

If the average person burned at least 150 calories per day through exercise, America would see significant reductions in heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, colon cancer, anxiety, and depression. What must you do to burn 150 calories? Walk two miles in 30 minutes. Garden for 30 – 45 minutes. Wash and/or wax your car in 45 – 60 minutes. Cycle five miles in 30 minutes. Dance fast for 30 minutes.

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