CHAPTER NINE

Enjoy Superb Health and Fitness

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

—TRYON EDWARDS

Resolve today that you are going to live to be eighty or ninety years old. Decide that you are going to dance at your grandchildren’s weddings and that you are going to feel terrific about yourself all the days of your life, from this moment onward.

This is the most wonderful time in human history to be alive in terms of health and longevity. It has never been more possible for you to live longer and live better than today.

In 1901, the average life span was less than fifty years. In 2001, the average life span is seventy-seven years and increasing ...

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