health- posts two days in a row -- am i some kind of a health nut? I know I am not, but do I get to pretend or what? it seems doing all those crossword puzzles or sweating your brain with sudoku ,or reading tons of books is not going to help prevent brain shrinkage when you get older. Instead, they advice walking.(BBC news). Or running, I guess if you can. Which I heard many can -- I don't know how I am going to be. Not that there's too long to go to get there. I read somewhere that people in Colorado, esp Denver, are very healthy, they are always riding bikes, and climbing mountains, and trekking and whatnot. They are ageless, they say. So that is one place I should never go to. Why go buy depression?
But if I can run when I hit 70, I wish I could do it like Phoebe and Rachel. Now that is running. Sometimes I try that on the treadmill (to "I'm going nowhere... somebody help me!" ):) Actually, that is friendship too. Which I think is more important. When you have someone to talk to, not just once a day, or once a week, but someone, or people around you, that makes a difference. That is one of the reasons why the older cultures have lesser number of patients with Alzheimers. Or, it could be that they aren't diagnosed as much, but I believe there are studies that indicate that some Asian and European communities have lesser incidence of this sad, dignity-robbing disease.
