“O Lord, Keep me alive
as long as I’m alive.”
– Old Scottish Prayer

Of course you’ve already been to the gym this New Year’s morning and you will keep going for the rest of your life. Or maybe someone read last week’s article and gave you some exercise bands — and you used them. Did you go for a walk instead? And of course you ate a healthy breakfast and lunch and plan a healthy dinner of less meat, more veggies and little or no sugary dessert. You plan to keep that up too, don’t you?

What’s the best gift you can give yourself or others? It’s the gift of Health, Fitness and Personal Energy. You can give it to yourself, or to others. The nice thing is that it doesn’t cost much and the rewards are incalculable. Health and Fitness is the gift of life, of longevity, of feeling alive.

Diet books, cook books and exercise books seem to be common gifts and are appropriate this time of year, but as the comedian once said, diet books teach you how to not eat something that you just learned how to cook.

Energy Bite 268 – Comments About My “Leg Strength” Article.

Last week’s article was about the importance of leg strength and the ability to get up and down from a chair using only your legs,drew an email comment from a Clinical Psychologist who deals with health issues, and whose practice brings him into contact with Seniors. I’m quoting with permission and with a tiny bit of selective editing to make it totally relevant. He wrote: