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How to stay young

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay 'them' 

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down..

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.'

4. Enjoy the simple things. 

5.. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive. 

7. Surround yourself with what you love , whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge. 

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it.. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. 

9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. 

11.  AND ALWAYS REMEMBER : Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but  by the moments that take our breath away.

          Worry about nothing, pray about everything!!! 
  

LaLanne is still doing what he does best.

Oakland's own Jack LaLanne, who founded what may have been the world's first fitness-focused gym in downtown Oakland in 1936, turned 95 recently. In today's DTO, where Club One anchors the City Center retail complex, it's difficult to imagine how groundbreaking it was for Mr. LaLanne to open his 15th Street gym. But many decades and countless juicer sales later, Jack LaLanne is still preaching health and boasting about his accomplishments. Today's Chronicle features an interview with the healthy-living pioneer, who provides the reader with a few choice memories.

One of LaLanne's most effective sales devices has been his amazing feats of strength. When Arnold Schwarzenegger came to America in 1968 and became an instant sensation on the Southern California muscle scene, LaLanne challenged the kid to a duel at Muscle Beach. The Austrian Oak was 21; the Oakland Oak was 54.

"I beat him in chin-ups and push-ups," LaLanne says. "He said, 'That Jack LaLanne's an animal! I was sore for four days. I couldn't lift my arms!' "

Interesting stats.
 
 HOW BIG IS WAL-MART? 
 
 1.  Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.
 
 2.  This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
 
 3.  Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St.Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
 
 4.  Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
 
 5.  Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer. 
 
 6.  Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.
 
 7.  Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.
 
 8.  During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).
 
 9.  Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
 
 10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
 
 11 This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a Wal-Mart store. 
        (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.)
 
 12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart
 
 Let Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street.  
 Better yet . . . let them run the damn Government!(lol)