“The Right Dose of Exercise for a Longer Life”

“The Right Dose of Exercise for a Longer Life” February 17, 2016

 

Not Timp.  Maybe Squaw Peak?
On most days when I’m not traveling, I like to jog up and down this little hill behind my house a few times.
(Wikimedia Commons; click to enlarge)

 

It’s my goal to make this blog your one-stop source for all your basic intellectual, cultural, scientific, political, theological, and life-orientational needs.  As the soon-to-be popular saying has it, “When Sic et Non speaks, the thinking has been done.”

 

So here I am (thanks to a helpful heads-up from Jann Cahoon Campbell), acting in my previously unheralded role as life coach and fitness guru.

 

How much exercise should you get each week?  What is optimal for your longevity and good health?  New research data may have answered those questions:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp8QH64.html?articleId=1&WT.mc_id=2016-CPLTEST-FB-MC4-7

 

To the probable disappointment of some of my critics, by the way, I’ve been eating healthily over here:  Ono and salmon the other day, for example.  And, tonight at the Hula Grill (a favorite of ours here in Ka’anapali), mahi and swordfish, as well as some scallops and lobster.

 

And I haven’t missed a class!

 

Posted from Ka’anapali, Maui, Hawai’i

 

 


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