Which statement best describes your approach to staying healthy?

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Permalink Reply by Lee Douglas Elliott on December 14, 2010 at 11:48pm

I'm a combo of 1 and 3. I have fun avoiding exercise, but not too much fun. 

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Permalink Reply by Quinn M. on December 14, 2010 at 11:55pm

I'm kind of somewhere in the middle.  My approach consists of:

 

1. No needle sharing.

What?!  I'm diabetic.

 

2. Drink a 300 cups of green tea per day.

Sometimes I fall short of my goal.

 

3. Exercise.

But only when I absolutely have to.

 

4. Get plenty of sleep.

At least four hours per night.  If possible.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Bard on December 15, 2010 at 12:01am

I'm pretty much a 1 who aspires to be a 2 but secretly wishes I was a 4.

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Permalink Reply by Quinn M. on December 15, 2010 at 12:14am

Good answer.

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Permalink Reply by Deborah R Millstein on December 15, 2010 at 5:44am

I've become #1 through a lifetime of #4.  #2 will never work for me & I don't go out of my way to participate in #3.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Cox on December 15, 2010 at 12:21pm

Mostly #1, although sometimes moderation is the average of two extremes. As Charles Bukowski said, "The place to find the center is at the edge."

 

Physical activity keeps sane as well as healthy, so also a little bit of #2. Less of a temple and maybe more of a casual, inner-city storefront church.

 

As an aging rocker, the one aspect of health I'm very passionate about is protecting what's left of my hearing. I've done enough damage already. I don't club/gig/practice unless I'm plugged.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Bard on December 15, 2010 at 12:25pm

One of the benefits of one's personal mortality becoming a real thing as opposed to an abstract concept (which is was for me until fairly recently) is that you get much more motivated to fix what's wrong and protect what you've got, hearing included. 

 

That said, if you ever see me drinking a low-carb beer, shoot me.

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Permalink Reply by Quinn M. on December 15, 2010 at 12:51pm

Yes to this.  Many younger musicians succumb to the "If it's too loud, you're too old" mentality, but I'm happy that in my band of aging Indie rockers everyone wears earplugs.  

 

I can't imagine life without music and no doubt a lot of the dudes cruising with the window-rattling subwoofers will have to learn sign language in a couple decades.

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Permalink Reply by Luis Real on December 15, 2010 at 12:27pm

Well, let's say point 1 for me is nonsense since you must describe what "moderation" is; maybe for me moderation is drinking only 4 beers while you consider healthy drinking only 2... Anyway, honestly i don't think this point can apply on me, i believe excess can be good sometimes for your mind or even your body, especially with foods, and this leads me to point 2: here in spain the food is always healthy heheh, and of course my body is a temple, i provide him with the finest whiskey and porto wine and not the cheapest ones...

For the exercise, i'm a dying basket player, i play whenever i have the oportunity, and also tennis but not as much as i would like; but i consider it essential for mind and body...

(OMG, i'm the black sheep of the tribe...)

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Permalink Reply by Stan Schwieger on December 15, 2010 at 4:45pm

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Permalink Reply by Jon Bard on December 15, 2010 at 5:08pm

Worked out well for him!  :)

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Permalink Reply by Stan Schwieger on December 15, 2010 at 5:57pm

Well.  There is always this.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

--H.S. Thompson

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