Tuesday, May 11, 2010

With Long-Term Exercise, Being 80 Is Just a Number

“In 1977, Jimmy Carter was president, Close Encounters of the Third Kind was in theaters and smoking was still permitted in most public buildings. That was the year Lawrence Golding, now 81, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, started a no-frills, boot-camp-style exercise class for men, held weekdays at lunchtime in a building on campus. Some of those men, aged 30 to 51 when the class began, stuck with the program for more than 20 years. And today they're...

http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/638540.html

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