We know exercise makes you live longer But this will actually get you off the couch!

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READ THIS ONE!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/...story.html?

When someone dies in the intensive care unit, the first thing the nurse does is turn off the EKG monitor. That’s because the heart can go on depolarizing — writing its electrical signature on the screen, if not actually pumping blood — for many minutes after everything else stops. It’s creepy, but touching, too. The heart is the soldier who can’t bear to surrender until long after the battle is lost.

Because the heart is the last organ to die, it’s no surprise that medicine has expended much effort to get it to live longer. What’s surprising is that the best strategy is to work it harder, not go easy on it. The ceaselessly pumping organ is happiest if you test its limits in a controlled fashion on a regular basis.

Aging rats forced to swim an hour a day have hearts far younger-looking — less thickened and scarred — than their sedentary brethren.

A study of 221,000 Australians age 45 and older found that those who simply stood more than two hours a day had a death rate 10 percent lower than people who stood for less than two hours when followed over the course of four years. People on their feet for eight hours a day had a 24 percent lower death rate.

Lots more in that article!!

Uplifting, isn't it?!?  Let it uplift you off the couch!!!