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“Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. —Karl Lagerfeld”
― Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]
― Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]
“If you could put the benefits of exercise in a pill, it would be an astonishing pill,” says Simon Melov, a researcher at the Buck Institute who has studied exercise extensively. “The data is now coming out on the effects of chronic exercise, and it is astonishing in terms of its ability to prevent all sorts of age-related disease, everything from cancer through to neurodegenerative disease to heart disease, even arthritis. All of these things have vastly lowered risk in people who exercise regularly—and if that was in a pill, it would be insane.”
― Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]
― Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]
“Thanks to Blast data, researchers now know that natural walking speed is one of the most accurate predictors of mortality that we have. The slower you walk, statistically speaking, the sooner you are likely to check out.”
― Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]
― Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]
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