Drop Dead Healthy

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FOR THE LAST FEW MONTHS, I’ve been assembling a list of things I need to do to improve my health. It’s an intimidatingly long list. Fifty-three pages. Here’s a sample:

• Eat leafy green vegetables

• Do forty minutes of aerobic exercise a day

• Meditate several times a week

• Watch baseball (lowers blood pressure, according to one study)

• Nap (good for the brain and heart)

• Hum (prevents sinus infections)

• Win an Academy Award (A bit of a long shot, I know. But studies show Oscar winners live three years longer than non–Oscar winners.)

• Keep my apartment at sixty-two degrees, which makes my body burn more calories a day

• Buy a potted Areca palm plant (filters dirty air)

• Lift weights to muscle exhaustion

• Become an Okinawan woman (another long shot)

And on and on.

By the way, I’ve printed this list in nine-point Papyrus font, because I found a study that says hard-to-read fonts improve memorization.

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