'Get off your butts,' says LaLanne, 89

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 1/16/04 | Daisy Nguyen

[OldPossum]

What I have always resented are those holier-than-thou people who tell me what is best for me. If he wants to get up at five in the morning and exercise, fine, that's his choice. But don't tell me that I am somehow mistreating myself if I don't do what he does. Jeezh!

P.S. Mr. L seems to have overlooked the main factor in health and longevity: one's genetic makeup.

[Lizavetta]

What I have always resented are those holier-than-thou people who tell me what is best for me

Don't you mean healthier than thou? Healthy food and exercise IS what's best for you....the fact that it interferes with what you want to do is what irritates you, I think.

Genetics absolutely play a part in longevity but the stuff you put in your piehole day after week after month after year is the determining factor for most (not all) people.

[OldPossum]

No, I mean "holier-than-thou." I had it right in the first place. And as for it interfering with what I want to do, well, that represents no problem at all. I do what I wish.

As for the exercise, I do indeed get exercise. My house is located in woodlands and I have a wood stove. I get my exercise doing a productive activity, cutting wood, splitting it and hauling it. I imagine that this is the equivalent to or superior of working out with some weights and running to nowhere and back. In the summer I garden, work on forest-thinning, and keep a very large lawn in shape.

I also have built a mile-long trail through these woods and take my two dogs on walks twice a day.

I stand 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weigh 180 pounds. Hardly a pitiful physical specimen. Obviously, overconsumption of food is not a problem.

[philo]

Push-ups every morning. TEN TIMES!

[CaptainK]

Yes I remember being tortured daily by Mr. Preston. Oh, and thank you JFK and Meredith Wilson.

Thanks for the memories, all 6 minutes and 32 seconds of them. For this you must pay:

http://www.daveross.com/songs/robertpreston.mp3

[templar]

During the past year, I got this 41-year-old body in shape by doing 1-2 brisk walks of 3+ miles a day and I feel 20 years younger. As well, I also switched my diet to whole foods and pretty much eliminated all processed foods (and the carbs that go with them) from my diet.

Excellent course of action. Running is a bad idea for many people (joints and such) but you might consider adding some bicycling to your routine, you'll be surprised at the benefits and how rapidly they come.

I'm 55 and in excellent health and physical condition (match myself against any average 30 year old, except maybe athletes), but trying to get away from processed foods has been a problem for me; the time in preparing everything from scratch isn't available. How did you manage to get them out of your diet conveniently?

[Taliesan]

Running is a bad idea for many people (joints and such)

Running does not wear out the joints.

[templar]

Running does not wear out the joints.

Depends on the person. It's high impact and some people aren't able to handle it. I've two friends that were runners and had joints replaced in their mid fourties (one hip, one knee): both of their doctors attributed it to damage from the running (both were a bit on the excessive side to be fair)

[meowmeow]

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.
1 Timothy 4:8

Explains all the fat people at church.

I'll continue to take good care of my temple in appreciation for being fearfully and wonderfully made.

Go Jack, go!

[BibChr]

So, given thaty ou are supposedly responding to my simply-worded posting, I take it you're saying that it'd be better if LaLanne (or anyone) suffered in Hell forever, so long as he lived healthy for ~90 years?

Bizarre thought process; really bad math.

Dan

[freedox]

Thanks for the link! I sat here and listened to the whole thing while drinking a cup of coffee and smoking a cigarette.......I feel healthier already!

[Taliesan]

Impact activity will exacerbate an EXISTING injury. Multiple studies have demonstrated no correlation between running and the rate of wear in otherwise intact joint structures.

Believe it or not, physicians are susceptible to wives' tales just like other mortals. They succumb to the pressure from the patient wanting a cause to focus on.

NOBODY who had a hip replacement in their 40's got there from running. Whoever told your friend that seriously misled him.

[new cruelty]

Impact activity will exacerbate an EXISTING injury. Multiple studies have demonstrated no correlation between running and the rate of wear in otherwise intact joint structures.

Also... A recent study suggests that people who participate in high-impact physical activities have greater bone density than people who do not.

[meowmeow]

Not at all. I've just heard Christians cite that verse as some sort of justification for not eating right and exercising. Makes me cringe. Sure, they'll go to heaven. Probably sooner than expected. I certainly hope Jack knows his Creator. We all die eventually. But keeping healthy and fit for as long as you can is no sin.

[Guillermo]

I just bought a Jack Lallane Power Juicer, it rocks!

[BibChr]

<< ...keeping healthy and fit for as long as you can is no sin. >>

Did I say it was?

I had one point to make, and *thought* I made it fairly plainly.

Dan

[ArrogantBustard]

You thought wrongly.

You expressed hope that Mr. L had considered the eternal dimensions of his existence, acted accordingly.

One might express that hope regarding anyone. I hope you have "exercis[ed] God-given repentance and faith in Jesus Christ."

Your statement was ambiguous.
Was it a generalized hope for his salvation, do you have some concrete reason to believe he has not exercised God-given etc., or something else?

[BibChr]

Evidently it was crystal-clear. It is open-ended, because I don't know.

Of course, that in itself is valid cause for concern. If I was a well-known figure, with abundant opportunities for speaking publicly on anything I chose, and the one and only thing for which I was not only known but well-known was concern for physical health.... That would be valid cause for concern as to my priorities.

Dan

[ArrogantBustard]

Well now. That (#38) was clear, concise, to the point, and not subject to multiple or ambiguous interpretation.

[holdmuhbeer]

how long you been a christian?