Happy New Year Class of '62 Classmates !
We hope you have had time to make lots of resolutions for the new year, such as the importance of excercise such as "walking."
Below you will find information shared by classmate Marie Therese (Reis) Hall and her husband, Charles, about the importance of walking......
The Importance of Walking:
> Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $8000. per month.
> My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60. Now he's 92 years old and we don't know where he is.
> I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
> The only reason I would take up walking is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
> I have to walk early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.
> I joined a health club last year to get in more walking done---spent about $400 for the membership, but haven't lost a pound. Apparently, you have to go there.
> If you switch from walking to cross-country skiing in the winter, start with a small country.
> Even with a lot of walking, we probably all get heavier as we get older because there is a lot more information in our heads. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it.)
