| Most writers have dangerous issues they pay little | | | | activity that keeps the back strong, the neck and |
| or no attention to until its too latetheir health! And | | | | legs improving in performance. It pushes blood |
| yet, health can be more of a problem than | | | | through your body and washes out harmful things |
| Writers Block, complications of concentration, | | | | we ingest. |
| writing anxiety, daily output frustration and editor | | | | RunningThats my next favorite. It gives you the |
| angst. What Im talking about is sitting related | | | | sped-up version of brisk walking. |
| diseases. | | | | DancingI like dancing because it causes physical |
| It took me five years to write my novel, The | | | | and social healing. It moves every part of your |
| Mayors Wife Wore Sapphires, and all during that | | | | body. It gives you interaction with other people to |
| time, I had to work at keeping healthy. First of all, | | | | laugh with, make a fool of yourself with and |
| I was gaining weight. Then came cold feet with | | | | potential new characters to write about. It makes |
| tingling sensation, mental fog, stiff shoulders, | | | | you feel happy. |
| headaches, loneliness and depression. I knew I | | | | Yoga This exercise stretches every muscle in |
| needed a routine of loving me to ever finish this | | | | your body and sends blood flowing to your face |
| novel. If you dont believe me see by bio: I share | | | | and brain. Yoga is the only exercise that |
| how I had to love me enough to be energetic and | | | | systematically exercises all of the internal organs |
| in good health when my novel was finished. | | | | of your bodyliver, spleen, heart, pancreas, |
| Sitting from three to five hour stretches at a | | | | thalamus, and intestines. All three of the above |
| computer naturally causes obesity, unless it is | | | | are free, and you know writers often need FREE. |
| counterbalanced with an hour of walking, running, | | | | Gymusually people pay for this, but wont drive |
| stretching, or aerobics. Obesity alone brings along | | | | there to exercise. I live in a condo complex and it |
| body break downpoor circulation that causes | | | | has a free gym. Its great for cold days. There |
| heart disease, hypertension and mental fog, | | | | are machine and weights for every part of your |
| diabetes, heart failure, and thus kidney failure, | | | | body. I love the weights and pull down machines |
| stroke and dont forget sagging skin. | | | | that relieve my shoulders of computer hunching |
| Each hour you sit at your computer causes | | | | tension. |
| another part of the body to break down, | | | | Drink eight glasses of water per day as an |
| atrophy, cells to die, muscles to sag. Those are | | | | antioxidantto wash all the poisons from your |
| just the results you can see. The body was wired | | | | systemstale indoor air, that fatty snack you took |
| to move. When it doesnt move it rusts inside, and | | | | when you left your computer. Oh, by the way, |
| rust (oxidation) causes health problems. As simple | | | | just stock the fridge with green stuff, carrot and |
| as that. | | | | celery sticks. When you dont have any bad stuff |
| Now that weve identified the possible disasters, | | | | to eat you wont eat it. |
| lets talk about how to keep the five-hours-a-day | | | | Move from your computer every hour. Do |
| work at your computer from rushing you away | | | | something physical. Vaccum, cook, exercise. |
| from this earth, or debilitating you. Begin by | | | | Eat lots of green stuffspinach, greens, cabbage, |
| bargaining with time to enjoy and promote your | | | | okra, peas |
| great American novel, or that famous nonfiction | | | | This is your best bet for being alert and looking |
| bookwithout a potbelly, hunched shoulders, or | | | | strong and healthy when you go on Good Morning |
| wrinkled face when you get on Oprahif youre able | | | | America for the entire world to see. Now if you |
| to walk onto that little stage. | | | | decide you dont want to choose this lifestyle, or |
| Brisk WalkingThis is my favorite. You need no | | | | some other daily exercise program, then dont |
| partner, no special time, and no expensive gear. | | | | blame your nurse when she sticks you with a |
| All you need is a will and a habit. Now if you go | | | | needle or your doctor demands that you have a |
| out at the same time every day for thirty days, | | | | stay in the hospital. Its all left up to you. |
| youll have the walking habit. Brisk walking brings | | | | By the way, I did finish my novel with aplomb, |
| oxygen into lungs that help rid the body of that | | | | got 5-Star Reviews, and Im working my way |
| great destroyeroxidants. Its also a weight-bearing | | | | toward the Oprah Show! |