RETIREMENT SENTIMENTS

Ah, that day we dream of when we no longer have to go through the daily grind! Sleep in a bit, cup of tea in bed from the good wife, enjoy the paper instead of having to scan it in a jiffy... an illusion! For a couple weeks perhaps it might be fun. But then?

Whilst such dream retirement wishes plus a ski or motorhome trip or two are probably the norm, that fact is that if don't retire INTO something many of us will either become depressed, losing our sense of worth, drop dead of boredom within a few short years or, financially strapped, simply won't be able to afford to do the things we'd like to do.

An aside: do you know why it's not good to sleep on your tum or with your arm above your head? THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME ... tingling in the arm and all the fingers.

IMMOBILISATION ARTHRITIS ... from, amongst other things, sleeping on your tum.



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To retire...

1. to stop working, especially when you reach the age when you are officially too old to work
2. to stop playing a sport as a professional player because you are too old
3. to force someone to leave their job, especially before they reach the age when they are officially too old to work
4. to leave a place, position, or way of life in order to go somewhere quieter or to live a less active life
5. to stop taking part in a game or sports competition because you are injured or sick, or to make someone do this
6. to remove machines or equipment from a place because they are old and no longer useful

7. to go to bed at the end of the day in order to sleep

"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger."

William James

Past your sell-by-date...

Plan to Retire INTO something... RETIREMENT SENTIMENTS

An aside: This week a young patient came to the clinic with a very sore neck after being manipulated by a friend. The friend? A flatmate of a chiropractic student in training... nuff said. Would you let your friend take out your appendix, one of the simplest medical procedures, and certainly a lot less complicated than a cervical spine manipulation?

Wilma Rudolph

"My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother."

Wilma

Young Wilma was a sickly child having suffered polio, scarlet fever and pneumonia. At 9 she shed her braces and started running. Said she: "I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened."

At high school Wilma became a star athlete, quickly becoming a world-class sprinter. She won a bronze medal in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, and three gold medals in the 1960 Rome Olympics, earning her the title of "the world's fastest woman."

After retiring from running, she coached briefly before a retirement sentiment to set up a foundation for underprivileged children. A role model to countless people, she was also the author of a number of inspirational quotations:

"The triumph can't be had without the struggle."

HOBBIES, a new language...

"Every third bite that you consume at the dinner table is the result of insect (like bees) pollinators' work."

Professor Lars Chittka

GARDENING

It could be that plants, or birds, or keeping bees, or trout fishing that you keeps you young and vital right into the eighties... preferably something both physical and mental. The Archives of Medicine tell us that one quarter of Americans do little or no exercise... that is a recipe for early demise, and frankly a very boring life! Are you bored? Worse still, are you boring?

Here I am combining a fascination with Garbanzo beans with deep trenching... hummus is number two only to Quaker Oats recipes amongst the superfoods known to reduce blood cholesterol.

Not deep enough I confess, and too much shade, that tree must come out, but filled with kitchen waste and rich compost I'm hoping for a bumper harvest of chickpeas from that trench for our authentic hummus recipe. Healthy Choice Foods remains high on my agenda of retirement sentiments.

On a personal note...

RETIREMENT SENTIMENTS

TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT

Don't expect miracles but I personally believe that every case of hip arthritis should be treated with chiropractic before surgery. There's nothing to lose, and plenty to be gained... HIP ARTHRITIS

SACROILIAC JOINT CASE FILE ...

HOMOCYSTEINE

"If you want to keep your heart healthy then you need to know the facts about homocysteine. Not just another risk factor to be added to the general equation, homocysteine is believed to be one of the major causes of heart disease today."

Eve Knight, British Cardiac Patients Association.

In a profound study on 62 000 patients, reported in Archives of Internal Medicine in September 2010, it was found that taking Statins for raised cholesterol had absolutely no scientific basis, unless you have a history of cardiovascular disease . Evidence is pointing towards homocysteine rather than cholesterol as the spoke in the heart wheel. Read more about the H Factor ...

FOODS THAT LOWER CHOLESTEROL ...

So, how fit are you?

RETIREMENT SENTIMENTS

The Kasch Pulse recovery test is a simple three minute test that will give you a fairly accurate idea of whether YOUR best-laid plans may be realised or not.

May I boast? At the beginning of the test my heart rate was 60 beats per minute. One minute after the test my heart rate was exactly the same. 60. That's what regular cycling does for one. You could do the same, and hope to live to a happy healthy 90. That's what I'm aiming for... my best-laid plans... I could be knocked off the bike tomorrow! KASCH PULSE RECOVERY TEST ...

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