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Next year, and obviously those that follow, promise to put everyone through -- at bare minimum -- very high stress. More than likely, it will push people to their physical limits, too. A few months ago, I read an article which reported that a father who saw his son being attacked tried to rush to help -- but died of a heart attack enroute; he could not take the excitement. Y2K will catch everyone "as we are". Now is the time to stop smoking, lose weight, gain cardiovascular endurance, strength (don't forget flexibility!) training, etc. If you are neglecting this aspect of your Y2K preparation, you are making a serious mistake!!

-- Joe (shar@pei.com), September 13, 1998

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Or the alternative view ...

If there is a famine and the sort of widespread rioting that results in most people with food stashes being forcibly dispossessed of them, then be best preparation may not to be ultra-fit. It may be to be FAT. You'll last longer without food that way.

-- Nigel Arnot (nra@maxwell.ph.kcl.ac.uk), September 14, 1998.


... Unless people resort to cannibalism, of course ... (Just kidding ... I think ....)

-- Joe (shar@pei.com), September 14, 1998.

Yeah..... I hate it when people get under my skin.

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), September 14, 1998.

Am I the only person having serious motivational problems with losing those last 10 lbs. ...?!

-- madeline (runner@bcpl.net), September 14, 1998.

Joe,

Please get real!

All the GOOTCs (Get Out Of The Cities, or "goot-sies") of the world, unite!

-- ParkTwain (ptwain@ibm.net), September 14, 1998.



Don't worry: Cannabilism is not allowed by the federal government any more. They couldn't figure out the nutritional label, and there aren't any standards for declaring %fat intake per person as a function of your minimal starvation allowance of swill.

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), September 14, 1998.

exuse me , but that WAS a joke...

-- madeline (runner@bcpl.net), September 14, 1998.

Good thoughts!

Fitness & health will always make you better prepared for the stress & rigors of crises living.

However, about those last 10 pounds... My foremothers learned long ago (living among the reindeer in Lapland) that a few extra pounds can make the difference between survival & starvation. As long as my doctor says I'm healthy, and I can maintain a very good level of endurance & strength, my actual weight will NOT be foremost in my mind!

Remember, muscle weighs more than fat! As long as you can get into your jeans with two pair of long johns on, and you can haul 5 armloads of wood in from the barn without breathing hard, you're okay!

Ask your doctor, though. It's good to be sure!

-- Arewyn (nordic@northnet.net), September 15, 1998.


Speaking strictly from the guys' point of point, as long as you still can get out of those blue jeans and two sets of long underwear at the end of the day, ....

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), September 15, 1998.

When cigarettes are no longer available, I think we'll see some mighty grouchy people who will be forced to quit cold-turkey! Better for them, anyway.

-- Mary (Beachyfe@hotmail.com), September 15, 1998.


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