Active Aging

[kennynah]

is this author writing about singaporeans?

if so, i can understand.... what's there in singapore that is fun.... except to go changi airport...see aircraft take off and land....

Oct 12, 2009
Baby boomers' wanderlust
By Ang Yiying

BABY boomers like to travel, according to a new survey, and agencies are taking notice.

Six in 10 people aged 45 and above travel for leisure at least once a year, with about a quarter of those saying they travel three times or more.

The reason: They have time and money, are established in their careers or retired, and are willing to spend on travelling in comfort after years of hard work.

Year-on-year growth for the segment aged 45 and above ranges from 5 to 20 per cent, a check with five agencies revealed.

Agencies have also been responding to the demand, with some actively branding themselves as senior-friendly.

Others increasingly offer tours that have less-packed itineraries, and with more meals and better accommodation thrown in.

[millionairemind]

I am sure the author is referring to Singaporeans, since the news is taken from ST Online.

[kennynah]

i know that recent years...many men have been going to changping and dongguan china....

[sidney]

Is there places of interest ? Never heard of the places before. I mountain totise

[winston]

For most people, getting older means getting fatter. And there is a good reason for it. Our metabolism slows down some over the years. But that's not the only factor. There is something else that happens that most people don't pay much attention to. As we age, we usually get much less active.

Think about it. When you were young, your parents almost had to tie you down to keep you still. You weren't going to the gym back then. You may not have been playing sports. But you were constantly moving. And when you weren't moving -- when, for example, you were "stuck" in class -- you felt fidgety. That's because your body just wanted to keep moving. And so you kept it moving every chance you got.

As adults, many of us spend eight hours a day sitting in an office and then another three or four hours sitting on the couch. Add to that the time we spend seated while eating, and you get the full picture.

We've switched our physical routines from moving around most of the time to exercising for, maybe, one hour a day. And when we exercise, we do aerobics and spin classes and weightlifting. None of these activities get our bodies into the zone necessary to build strong lungs and a strong heart.

Source: ETR

[kennynah]

We've switched our physical routines from moving around most of the time to exercising for, maybe, one hour a day. And when we exercise, we do aerobics and spin classes and weightlifting. None of these activities get our bodies into the zone necessary to build strong lungs and a strong heart.

have more sex

[winston]

Another year has come and gone ! Have I wasted this year or has it being a productive one ? What should I use to measure this year ? Money ? Memories ? Knowledge? Wisdom ? Experience ? Accumulation of Good or Bad Karma ? Lack of problems ? Or why bother to measure at all in the first place ?

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"Things suck," Jerry said.

"Why's that?" I asked, worried that someone in his family was ill.

"I got laid off."

He'd been working as a manager for Office Depot for the past 10 years. Before that, he had a successful plumbing supply business. He sold that when his kids headed off to college because he wanted to "take it easy" and just live off his investments.

But taking it easy lasted only two years. After the tech bubble burst, he was forced to go back to work. Rather than start a new business, he went to work as an employee. Employment felt easier and more secure, he told me at the time. Now, he felt very differently.

I suggested a number of ideas, all of which he turned down. "I'm too old to start over," he said. He is 65 years old.

Later that night, I Googled "late bloomers" -- and these are a few of the nuggets I found:

Verdi composed his Ave Maria at age 85.
Harlan Sanders started Kentucky Fried Chicken at 65.
Ronald Reagan didn't get into politics until he was 55.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (author of Little House on the Prairie) published her first book in her 60s.
Rodney Dangerfield didn't start doing comedy until he was 45.
Cezanne's most highly prized paintings were done in his 60s.
Alfred Hitchcock's best films, including Vertigo and Psycho, were done in his late 50s and early 60s.

Source: ETR

[winston]

Continue from above .....

I'll be 60 next year by Michael Masterson

So I can appreciate Jerry's desire to have less stress in his life. But I decided a long time ago that I wasn't going to give in to age easily. I wasn't going to "go gentle into that good night."

For a while, I thought I'd have to accept living with stress in order to accomplish everything I wanted to do. But since I've been writing about (and experimenting with) productivity strategies, I've come to believe that when it comes to personal accomplishments, you can have your cake and eat it too.

You can have less stress and also accomplish more by:

Following a good goal-setting program
Setting aside time every day for exercise
Getting at least seven hours of good sleep every night
Eating for energy (high protein, low carbs, etc.)
2009 was probably the least-stressed I've been in twenty years. And yet I was able to accomplish an awful lot.

Here is some of what I did this year:

Wrote two new books that will be published next year
Finished two books from last year that will be published this year
Wrote 50 poems, six short stories, and 16 chapters of a novel
Produced a feature-length and a documentary film
Competed in two national Jiu Jitsu championships and won three first-place trophies
Wrote 50+ essays for Early to Rise
Painted a half dozen paintings
Wrote hundreds of briefs for Early to Rise and the Michael Masterson Journal
Consulted with half a dozen companies
Started a fine-art business
Studied Spanish and French
Read more than 30 business books
Learned 300+ new words
Traveled to Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, San Francisco, Denver, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Panama, Rio de Janeiro, Morocco, and Nicaragua
Bought and renovated two rental properties
Learned to play golf
Began the development of a community center in Nicaragua

Source: ETR

[winston]

Grandma-ster! 77-Year-Old Earns Black Belt in Jujitsu

AOL News (Aug. 5) -- Just because you have white hair doesn't mean you can't earn a black belt.

Ask 77-year-old Ena Mallett, a British grandmother who became the first woman to get a 7th dan black belt in Spirit Combat International jujitsu.

Despite her age, Mallett says she's still kicking -- literally.

"I might be getting on a bit, but I still get stuck in myself during lessons," she told the press. "I can still deal with any big bloke who comes along."

The 5-foot-6-inch widowed mother of two started practicing martial arts in 1979 to stay in shape, and eventually became a jujitsu instructor in 1987. Today, she teaches classes in the town of South Walsham and works as a crossing guard.

So far, she's taken her moves out of the dojo only once when she spotted a 14-year-old boy shoplifting a packet of mints and put him in a wrist lock.

"It gave him the shock of his life, and he quickly dropped the mints," she said.

Though she's risen to a high rank in her martial art, Mallett says she's not hanging up her belt any time soon.

"I love teaching it, and I certainly have no plans to give it up. I don't see why I should put my feet up."


http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/artic ... u/19562044

[winston]

The Secrets of a Long and Healthy Life

So what are the secrets of a long and healthy life? Gerontologists point to four key factors: diet, exercise, "psycho-spiritual" and social, so anyone aiming for a century should not underestimate the power of lifestyle - despite the odd centenarian who proudly claims to have smoked 60 cigarettes a day for decades.

Thomas Perls, who heads the NECS, believes that up to 70 per cent of longevity is due to non-genetic factors. Nevertheless, many people who live well into old age do tend to have another advantage: an inherited genetic pass.

http://www.mindpowernews.com/LifeBeginsAt100.htm