Strom Thurmond was born in Edgefield, South Carolina, in 1902 and lived to be over 100 years old. He grew up in a time when the average person knew how to live off the land and he learned the values of health and fitness early on when he attended Clemson College, which was a military school at the time. Strom was also prone to periodic displays of toxic masculinity. In 1947, for example, he did a handstand in his trousers, in front of his new wife for a LIFE Magazine photo. Ten years later, he delivered the longest filibuster ever, at over twenty-four hours, in 1957. In 1964, he wrestled a liberal Texas Senator named Ralph Yarborough and pinned him to the floor outside the Senate chamber until Yarborough yelled “uncle.” Well into his senior years, Strom was known for his excellent shape, and he was interested in health and fitness before they became fads and pseudoscience. The advice he most frequently shared with others included:
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I'll settle for 95 being able to enjoy an occasional cigar and some bourbon.
ReplyDeletePrune juice makes me gag but I hit the iron almost every day.
My Mother required that I drink a glass in the morning, but boy did I despise it. Maybe I should try a glass now as my tastes might have changed. :)
DeletePrune juice? Lord, please just send me to an early grave.
ReplyDeleteNot a "snowflake", he!
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DeleteIf the purpose of prune juice to to facilitate elimination, my approach of an occasional bowl of Grape Nuts, lots of raw veggies and beans & other high fiber foods seems to be working quite well. Thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteWeight training is a very good thing. I've been doing it since 1964 when I was 13 and a lot of people discouraged it...including doctors for whom I later worked. They were wrong! I'm 67 now and still do the old school basics, squats, deadlifts, overhead presses, twice a week along with some walking and a few sprints. Limit sugar and other carbs, eat protein with good fats like salmon and sardines, grass-fed beef and butter, eggs, spinach and blueberries. Check out magnesium source foods and maybe supplement with mag glycinate. It's huge, keeps your tissues flexible and eliminates muscle aches, pains and stiffness. Waster, red wine and green tea are good. Reminds me: " A man can never have too many books, too much red wine or too much ammunition." --Rudyard Kipling Pump iron and shootin' irons are good! Health and strength is fun. Do it! --Ron W
ReplyDeleteA man can never have too many books, too much red wine or too much ammunition." --Rudyard Kipling
DeleteYes and you're a good man!
Thanks, Brock! One other little health tip: Chocolate. But it needs to be real cocoa. I put a spoonful of the baking 100% cocoa in my coffee along with whatever else, cream, no sugar for me, maybe some raw honey sometimes. Chocolate is a good source of magnesium and good fat.
DeleteThe "powers that be" tell us "healthcare is a right". Well, I agree. And if a right, it is something we do for ourselves and they are excluded! Otherwise, I think they just want go use it to control us and further their agenda to make us dumbdowned, disabled and disarmed.
"He truly lives dangerously who trusts his health to a doctor, his rights to a lawyer (politicians), his money to a banker or his soul to a preacher"-- Anonymous
“If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come
when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict
the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to
others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special
privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.” --Dr. Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
--Ron W
they just want go use it to control us and further their agenda to make us dumbdowned, disabled and disarmed.
DeleteAgreed.