Exercise may be fountain of youth
Want to cut your biological age by 10 years? Then exercise.A recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine says exercise not only gives us a youthful glow -- it actually makes us youthful. How do they know? Because they gauged biological age by measuring telomeres, parts of chromosomes whose length has been linked to life span. Telomeres shorten as we age due to inflammation and cell damage. But those who exercise for more than three hours per week have telomeres as long as those who are sedentary and 10 years younger.
Exercise may even have the power to reduce the telomere-shortening damage of behaviors like smoking and stress. Some powerful stuff, that exercise. But you know that, right?
I'm convinced cough medicine for kids doesn't work. Whenever my boys suffer with nagging coughs -- the kind that keeps them up at night because they just can't stop hacking -- and I pump them full of any brand of children's cough syrup, it doesn't make a lick of difference. They still hack.
Just had my tummy tuck one week ago. All is going well -- better than I'd anticipated, actually -- and just yesterday I went with my mom while she picked my boys up from school. I even accompanied them to the park for an afternoon play date. It was great to get out of the house and away from the recliner that doubles as my daytime resting place and my bed. It's where I sit, sleep, write, watch TV, read bedtime stories -- and worry about how all I've gained through strenuous exercise over the past year is about to be lost.
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Raise your hand if you want your kids to journey through life on a healthful path. Anyone out there who doesn't want a healthy kid? Probably not. And while there are lists and lists of steps out there you can take to prime your kids for a life of good health, you might want to start by considering these five fascinating kid facts. Take action on what you learn if you can. Your child will one day thank you.
Have you ever gone to Wal-Mart and tried to get a simple cough or allergy medication that required you to jump through hoops to buy it? That's a way for them to make sure you aren't peddling drugs and turning into narcotics. It would be a shame if something like that happened to simple cold medicine.
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