Exercise and diet

After hearing the diagnosis, the patient seeks advice.

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Patient: Doctor, I’ve heard that aerobic exercise can make you live longer.

Doctor: Your heart is programmed to beat only a fixed number of times. It’s like saying your car will only run 300,000 ks. Go fast and you’ll wear it out quicker. Slow down, take a nap.

Patient: Well, what about eating less meat and eating more vegetables?

Doctor: Ha. What does a cow eat? Grass and sometimes corn. Vegetables! Eating beef is an efficient way of getting vegetables.

Patient: How about grains?

Doctor: Eat chicken. They eat grain and taste a whole lot better.

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Eat less, walk more

68.9.

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Kilos. Down from 70.1.

So?

When I reach 67.9 I can go for my annual health check.

They don’t only check your weight.

No but I figure if my weight goes down, then so does my cholesterol.

Huh? No connection. Haven’t you heard thin people can be fat on the inside?

I know that, fat surrounding heart and liver. But I feel good when I get the printout back and it shows a low reading on the scales balancing the high fat and LDL readings.

How about, “Eat less, Walk more!”

Sounds good. I might then weigh less and think more too.

Eat less, weigh less. Walk more, think more. Even catchier?
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