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Show - Friends For Good Health We live in an age of computers -- complex, highly sophisticated machines that can be programmed to accomplish feats that tax even the wildest imagination. Yet all of them are infantile when compared to the capacity of the human brain. According to one well known researcher, you would have to build a building ten stories high and large enough to cover the whole state of Texas to house the microchips necessary to accomplish the work of one human hu-man brain. REGARDLESS of attempts at comparison, the brain is a marvelous part of the human machine. Your brain controls every single thing your body does. It runs the show. It is highly integrated with your whole body. The potential of your brain at any age -- and I emphasize, at any age -- is phenomenal. It can and does change at all ages. This most complex of all computer systems will remain plastic and continue change as long as it remains in a healthy heal-thy environment and is maintained by a good cardiovascular system. NOW, WITH these facts in mind, some answers for quality living become obvious. First and foremost, a lifestyle of aerobic physical phy-sical activity is a must for that good cardiovascular cardiovas-cular system I Second, you will recognize the role of your ; ' best efforts in daily nutrition. This is not to mention the avoidance of alcohol, tobacco, and harmful drugs. THIRD, YOUR lifelong environment needs to be constantly enriched. The cortex of your brain is extremely responsive to your environment. environ-ment. The information you present to it is always al-ways significant in its effect, both for good and for bad. Finally (and this may be the most important answer), people desperately need each other, since there is a strong relationship with disease and loneliness. SINGLE, widowed, and divorced people : i lead all categories of death, by far. Social ties are extremely important. We don't know how they work, but they do. Human relationships do matter in one's quest for health and fitness. |
