Things You Can Do to Live a Lot Longer than You Think

By John T Jones, Ph.D.
Things You Can Do to Live a Lot Longer than You Think
Our leader asked us for specific articles. One of his request was: Anti-Aging - Techniques, tips and methods for staving off "Father Time".
Who is Father Time anyway? How did he get it into his head to kill everybody? It just isn’t fair. We need to attack him, trip him up, block him, and finally, kill HIM. Then we can live forever or even longer.
I tried to find a Father Time joke on the internet. I failed, so as usual I’ll write my own joke:
A farmer was working in the barn and a tall thin person in a black cape and a black pointed hat came in to see him. He was from the “black branch” of the Ku Klux Klan. This dark character carried a scythe over his shoulder. The farmer grabbed the scythe and said, “We’ve been looking for that scythe for ages. Damn Thief!” He grabbed the scythe, gave the black character a kick in the pants, and sent him running out into the fields.
The scythe is the tool of the Grim Reaper. He is Father Time in disguise. A scythe is a farming tool used to cut down grain. It is a wooden rod with a stem. The top end of the rod and also the stem has a handle or grip. The grips are parallel to the rod. At the end of the rod you will find the ring, tang, heel, beard, chine and toe. The chine does the cutting. You young folks will want to take a look at a scythe at http://www.scythesupply.com/.
The scythe is what the Grim Reaper uses to cut you down. That’s not what we want to happen. Here are some ways to hex the Grim Reaper alias Father Time.
Send some of your kids to medical school.
That’s what I did. If I say “I had a little bump in my chest last week,” one of my doctor sons will say, “Get down to the emergency room, NOW!”
I say, “I’ll go tomorrow. I’ve got to take the boys fishing.”
He says, “Dad! Get your butt down there!”
When I get there the emergency room physician is already talking to my son and he starts testing me for everything from Abrin to Zoster.
Thank God for Medicare and the AARP Supplemental Insurance.
Oh, you want to see a list of diseases? Go to http://www.cdc.gov/az.do. Maybe you will find one you like. You know what they say, "For long life find a disease and take care of it."
Watch cartoons on television.
One man was supposed to die so he lay in his bed in the hospital and watched Red Skelton videos. He laughed and laughed and laughed but he couldn’t die.
He got out of bed and went home. Anyway, that’s the way I heard it.
At the first sign of a cold take a ton of Vitamin “C.”
Linus Pauling got two Nobel Prizes. One was for his work on the structure of matter. The other was the Peace Prize.
He should have got one for his work with Vitamin “C.” Read about him at http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/.
Read the label on those big pills that fizz that you take to prevent illness from crowds and airplane cabins. There filled with Vitamin “C.” I just take Vitamin “C.” It’s cheaper.
By the way, I stuck one of those fizzy pills in my mouth recently up in Michigan. I looked like I had hydrophobia.
I take about 3000 mg of itamin “C.” The limit is 10,000 from what I’ve been told. Ask your doctor about the correct dosage or read the bottle label if you can read print that should have been put on a pinhead.
Do what Katie Couric did but not on television.
That is that if you are over 50, you need a doctor to stick his fiber optic doodad up where the sun doesn’t shine to check your colon. See http://www.hon.ch/News/HSN/514178.html.
If you are a man, have your doctor put his finger where he can check your prostate. See above.
I know it’s not pleasant, but do it. Early detection is the key. Go to http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org/.
I just lost a very good friend to prostate cancer.
Lay off the fat and overeating.
Heart disease and diabetes are two killers.
Read about heart disease at http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200000.
Read about diabetes at http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp.
Take a baby aspirin every day to prevent stroke and heart attack.
A few years ago my cardiologist in Arizona said that he wanted to keep me alive until I was in my mid-eighties. My grandfather lived until he was about 95 and my parents lived until they were 88. However, I had uncles and cousins who died young of heart disease. I was surprised at what the doctor said since I had had coronary bypass surgery and I had a bad aortic valve. Since then I’ve had bypass surgery again and I’ve an aortic valve from a young hog. My surgeon now says that if I don’t die from something else, my heart and arteries should carry me for another 10 years.
Medical care is very important to heart and diabetes patients.
Don’t forget it.
Exercise, but don’t overdo it.
Here is a place to start: http://www.presidentschallenge.org/.
Provide service to others.
How does this help? Well, giving help is like watching Red Skelton. You feel good about it and mental attitude is important to long life.
Go to http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2001790118_agelong13m0.html to read an inspirational story of a 110 year old woman.
Take care of your teeth.
To get the nutrients from food, you need to be able to breakdown the structure of the foods you are eating. You do this by chewing and chewing and chewing.
Learn how to take care of your teeth at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dentalhealth.html.
Have long-lived parents.
Genes are important. Just remember that proper living and medical care can make up the difference. If you don’t have the best genes read the article at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0827_agegen.htm. Help is on the way!
Read the article below.
This is for men but women should read it too. It covers some of what I said and more. Go to http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1608/is_3_18/ai_83343023#continue.
Sing Happy Days are Here Again every day.
This song was written by Jack Yellen & Milton Alger,
Happy days are here again,
The skies above are clear again.
Let us sing a song of cheer again –
Happy days are here again.
Read the lyrics at http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/american.studies.s98/brother.happy.html.
Now sing them every day.
Promise?
The End
John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com, a retired VP of R&D for Lenox China, is author of detective & western novels, nonfiction (business, scientific, engineering, humor), poetry, etc. Former editor of Ceramic Industry Magazine. He calls himself "Taylor Jones, the hack writer."
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Old Folks Exercise Guide

By John T Jones, Ph.D.
Up here in Idaho, the winter cold restricts our exercise. Here is some information to keep you alert, alive, and sore:
Think of Venue
I suggest a change in venue. Hop in that mobile home parked out in the yard gathering dust and drive it down to Quartzite, Arizona. That is rock hound heaven. Every winter a zillion old folks go to Quartzite to gather rocks, shoot the bull with other old-timers, and to warm-up in the desert sun.
Rock hunting is good exercise. At the end of the day you can nurse your sunburn, put Watkins® Liniment on your sore muscles, and snooze in front of the T.V. Your friends up north will be freezing their tootsies off. What could be better than that?
One last caution: When rock hunting, don’t put your hands into dark holes. A snake, scorpion, or spider might be lurking there. Ouch!
Drop Down to the Old Folks Center
Most centers have an exercise program. Nothing is more vigorous than waving your hands at your neighbor. You will bend over and stretch. After the exercise you can stay for that 3000 calorie lunch. That will make you sleepy. Go home and take a long nap in front of As the World Turns.
Walking Around the Mall and its Alternatives
Lots of old folks like to walk around the mall. You can walk at your own pace, stopping at interesting window displays. After the walk, you can go to the food court and eat a couple of those great cinnamon buns with milk or your favorite hot beverage.
I prefer hot chocolate myself.
Mall walking seems to be more fun if you are a member of a group. That way you have someone to lie to while eating your cinnamon bun.
If the mall is too far away, then walk around your house or apartment.
When your spouse says, “Stop that! What the heck are you doing anyway?” try the Charles Atlas method of dynamic tension.
Nobody will be kicking sand in your face.
Do you know that Charles Atlas still advertises? His ads are published up-side-down. You have to stand on your head to read them. That’s good exercise too.
An explanation of dynamic tension is needed for the uninitiated. Take your left fist and put in into your right palm. Now push and push and push. Now grab your right hand in your left hand and pull and pull and pull.
Get it? You are working one muscle against another.
Well, you are on your way dynamic tension wise.
An alternative to dynamic tension is weight lifting. I bought a pair of 5-pound weights at a yard sale. I lift them while watching T.V.
I also have a horse other than my real horse.
You sit on the thing and pull up your own weight. You can change the configuration and push up your own weight.
Either way you will be looking for the horse liniment.
John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com, a retired VP of R&D for Lenox China, is author of detective & western novels, nonfiction (business, scientific, engineering, humor), poetry, etc. Former editor of Ceramic Industry Magazine. He is Executive Representative of IWS sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He also sells TopFlight flagpoles. He calls himself "Taylor Jones, the hack writer."
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Linus Pauling—Scientist for the Ages

By John T Jones, Ph.D.
Linus Pauling—Scientist for the Ages
You can’t copyright a title so I stole the title for this article. This winter I have avoided colds and sore throats and such by taking a bunch of vitamin “C.” I learned this from Dr. Linus Pauling.
Now that we are in the second paragraph, I can give you the URL for the title I stole. It is http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/lpbio/lpbio2.html. If you don’t do anything else today, read that article. You will learn about his two Nobel Prizes and the extent of his scientific research and humanitarian services.
Dr. Pauling was a teacher. I had a chance to hear him lecture on the nature of the chemical bond when I was a sophomore in college. He was fun to listen to, as clear as a bell, and he had a great sense of humor. I went up and chatted with him with a bunch of chemistry students who attended the lecture. What a thrill to meet this great scientist.
In college we used Dr. Pauling’s text book. We felt we knew him before he came to the University of Utah campus. He was fired by Caltech, where he spent a great deal of his career, because of his antiwar activities. Caltech lost their most eminent professor who was quickly grabbed up by the University of California at Berkeley and later by Stanford University. For the activities for which he was fired he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
The range of Dr. Pauling’s research was broad as you will see when you read the article. My interest, as I mentioned, is to avoid suffering from colds and sore throats all winter, something my grandkids and their parents here in Idaho can not avoid. I take lots of vitamin “C” on the first onset of a cold. I’m not allergic to the vitamin and it does not give me “the trots” like it does some people.
At the first sign of a cold I take 3000 mgs in the form of six 500-mg pills. I take this with my orange juice. Later in the day, I take another dose of the same size. That makes 6000 mgs which is below the 10,000 mg limit.
I usually don't have to take anymore after this initial treatment. However, Dr. Pauling showed that Vitamin "C" taken with lysine helps prevent arteriosclerosis of which I have a major case. So I do take some everyday unless I forget. Forgetting is called OMS (Old Man's Syndrome).
Dr. Pauling wrote a book on this procedure so you may want to read his book by getting a copy at http://tinyurl.com/kpuja where you will find a listing of all of his books. Just look for the one on Vitamin “C” which is entitled Vitamin C and the Common Cold.
Taking my own advice I ordered three of his books in good but used condition. I bought the Vitamin C book, one on living longer, and one on quantum mechanics.
The reason I bought the book on longevity is because Dr. Linus Pauling was still running around airports at age ninty-three.
The End
John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com, a retired VP of R&D for Lenox China, is author of detective & western novels, nonfiction (business, scientific, engineering, humor), poetry, etc. Former editor of Ceramic Industry Magazine. He is Executive Representative of IWS sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He also sells TopFlight flagpoles. He calls himself "Taylor Jones, the hack writer."
More info: http://www.tjbooks.com
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