The best way out is always through

Taken from ST Forum Page 18 Aug ‘06

I have noticed time and time again the common characteristics of healthy octogenarians and nonagenarians and am struck by how they complemented their innate longevity genes with a “bunny” diet of vegetables, fruit, cereals, beans and seeds.
They had always eschewed the consumption of large quantities of red mead, and strangely enough, had never indulged in strenuous physical exercise.For them, going about their daily business providing for their families and themselves, facing up to the vicissitudes of life, going for leisurely short strolls, some light-hearted loosening up of the joints or, at most, an hour’s worth of elaborately slow taiji posing occasionally, were all the exercising they ever did.While t is difficult to deny the salutary effects of exercise, we should not regard it as a panacea. While it is obvious that, in the ideal case, good health is, among other things, interplay of diet and exercise, if I have to come down on one side I would always plump for diet.…….Dr Yik Keng Yeong

I am reminded of a friend who thrives on meat and smokes but stays healthy by exercising religiously, or so he claims. I guess I gotta decide which camp I wanna be in! I’d love to exercise more religiously but somehow all I like is dancing and walking and laughing and skipping and cycling and paddling about in the water, occasionally. So it seems better that I work on my diet rather than force myself to train. But then again, I love many of the not-good-for-you junk foods! Typical idiocy!I should  resolve to eat right most of the time. After all, I tortured my body with bulimia once and I should feel lucky that it’s still holding up!