| Conventional phrases like anti-aging and long life are | | | | enjoyed. |
| deceptive. They imply that the goal of healthy living is | | | | What then is the first step to achieving good long |
| to add more years to your life. In fact, you can add | | | | lasting health? Adjusting how you think about aging. |
| even more years to your life by living a healthy, | | | | Throw out notions that aging is a slow, sad decline |
| optimistic life. Some scientists ascertain that the human | | | | toward death, and that your goal is merely to get to |
| body, when perfectly maintained, can comfortably last | | | | some artificial age threshold, like a high-stakes |
| 120 years before typically giving out. | | | | marathon race in which all that matters is reaching the |
| Modern health care and lifestyles have already given | | | | finish line, no matter what agony it causes you. |
| you the opportunity to live to a ripe old age far beyond | | | | The following tips are valuable in helping you live a long |
| those or our ancestors. The goal today isn't merely | | | | and fruitful life. |
| extra years; it is good health while living longer. | | | | You need to remain intellectually stimulated by |
| Good health means that you are vibrant, creative, and | | | | reading and always trying to learn new things. |
| energized at any age, from 41 to 89. It's understanding | | | | Try and maintain some social relationships. My |
| that although we all have to die one day, sitting in a | | | | father is well in to his eighties and he still goes out to |
| rocking chair should not be the way that we spend the | | | | eat with his friends at least once a week. |
| final days of our lives. It means that you do not accept | | | | Keep up your creative interests. Take up painting |
| that the many diseases of aging like arthritis, | | | | or gardening or quilting. |
| Alzheimer's and osteoporosis need to be your destiny. | | | | Try and get your financial affairs in line early |
| Good health is living an active, healthy and purposeful | | | | enough in life to make sure that you don't have |
| life. | | | | financial stress in your later years. |
| Good health isn't achieved by just taking vitamins, | | | | In this day in age you're less likely then previous |
| starting another exercise routing, and you certainly | | | | generations to be living with a disability or in financial |
| don't want to spend endless hours at the doctor's | | | | stress. So if you still have some bad habits like eating |
| office. Aging is neither a disease to be treated with | | | | too much junk food or are smoking it's not too late to |
| medicine nor a progression to be reversed through | | | | change and have better prospects for a long healthy |
| denial, sacrifice, or hard work. Instead, achieving good | | | | life. |
| lasting health is a process to be respected and | | | | |