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