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[Bob Pickle]

From http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/25/lachs.lalanne.aging/index.html by Dr. Mark Lachs, professor of medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and director of geriatrics for the New York Presbyterian Health Care System:

LaLanne was essentially telling us to maintain what gerontologists call "physiologic reserve," making sure that the extra capacity we're given at birth is available to support our unprecedented longevity, which is a very recent development.

Ellen White the same sort of thing regarding how each one is given a certain amount of vital force, and we need to be careful that we don't expend it to the point that we don't have enough left for emergencies.

[Gailon Arthur Joy]

And just what is Ellen G. White's definition of "VITAL FORCE" and what is it that depletes "VITAL FORCE" and can it be "rebuilt"?

We are all too familiar with Dr Kellog's version of "vital force" but I ma not convinced it is even remotely tied to the EGW concept.

Gailon Arthur Joy
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[Gregory]

Dr. Lachs said:

But as an internist who specializes in geriatric medicine, I believe that one of the great values of LaLanne's later life and message is that he embodied many important attributes of healthy aging. LaLanne was a force of nature till his death on Sunday at 96.

Back when LaLanne began his TV exercise show, older adults with and without disabilities (which in that epoch, started around 50) were told by their doctors to slow down and stop exercising. Of course, he would have none of it.

Five decades later, hundreds of studies demonstrate the positive benefits of exercise and mobility on everything from depression to fall prevention. He was the original "use it or lose it" guy, correctly preaching to us that things in motion tend to stay in motion, and things (and people) that don't will stop, or worse.

LaLanne was essentially telling us to maintain what gerontologists call "physiologic reserve," making sure that the extra capacity we're given at birth is available to support our unprecedented longevity, which is a very recent development.

Dr. Lach's major example was exercise in "old age," not what, as Gailon said, was the focus of Dr. Kellogg.