LIVING TO 105: Is it really the bacon?

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Yesterday I read several news feeds about a woman who is 105 and still going strong. The news feeds attributed her longevity to eating bacon because she said she ate it every day.

I would expect that bacon was not responsible for her longevity; but her philosophy of life was.

The news feeds quoted her daughter as saying; “She’s taught us to work hard and to get up every morning and think about living.”

Life purpose and values can take you a long way in life. Victor Frankl, a psychiatrist who chronicled his experiences as an Auschwitz concentration camp inmate during World War II, wrote about how having a reason to live provided life extending health benefits to the prisoners.  Frankl’s philosophy is still used today as Logotherapy; an accepted psychiatric therapy. Its main goal is to focus a patient’s attention on a ‘life purpose’ as a survival tactic. Read about how he developed his therapy in Man’s Search for Meaning.

WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT LONGEVITY?

  • Maybe it’s not what we do or do not eat that determines longevity
  • Maybe it is how we perceive life and that we have a purpose in life as we age

LONGEVITY: It is within your reach, reach for it! Let me show you how in THE WHOLE PERSON WELL-BEING EQUATION

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ENJOY better health today!

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Elisabeth Hines, C.N.C., C.B.P., Holistic Wellness Practitioner, www.mybodycanhealitself.ca

SOURCES AND RESOURCES:

http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/shine-on/105-old-woman-says-bacon-secret-long-life-182511394.html

Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy, http://www.logotherapyinstitute.org/Home.html

Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

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