I picked up an interesting bit of information on Yahoo.com about how daily activities add or subtract years from your life. The data came from Men’s Health with BMJ as the source. Because this is about men’s health, you women can stop reading now if you want to. My guess is that some men may stop reading, but not a single woman will.
According to the data is you drink one alcoholic beverage per day, you will live 30 minutes longer. Two to three cups of coffee also adds half an hour. Twenty minutes of cardiovascular exercise gets you an extra hour, but forty minutes more adds on thirty minutes. Check this out. Eating five or more servings of fruits and vegetables will get you an extra two hours.
Now the negatives. After that first drink, you lose fifteen minutes for each alcoholic drink after that. Watching TV for two hours takes away thirty minutes. I’ve seen some shows that must take away longer than that. Just one portion of red meat gets you thirty minutes less living. You lose two hours just for being male. God is merciful to us. Smoking one pack of cigarettes cost you five hours.
Recently I read about a guy that went to a new doctor and when the doc asked him if he had any questions, the fellow said, "Will I live to 85?" The doctor then asked if he drank a lot, smoked, spent a lot of time in the sun playing golf or fishing, engaged in excessive amounts of sex, ate red meat at every meal, spent hours watching sports on television, or never exercised. The man replied "no" to all of these. The doctor then said, "Why would you want to live to be 85?"
I did the math on my own life and discovered I’ve been dead for years.
No wonder I’m so grumpy.
PMO
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