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- transeunte, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17Will not take advices on living healthy from dead men.
/sarcasm - stevenvh, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1120 minutes per 3 hours = 2 hours and 40 minutes in 24 hours
- Punisher2K, on 10/11/2007, -3/+91 Do not eat when you have no appetite, and dine lightly
Sounds like a good idea, but don't listen to me. Here's what Elaine Magee, Ph D has to say: Eat when you're hungry, stop when you're comfortable. "There's a difference between stuffed and comfortable," she says. "If you truly follow that concept, you should be hungry every two or three hours." (WebMD)
2 Chew well, and whatever you take into you should be well-cooked and of simple ingredients
Yup, even our President can attest to this one. Dubya on the wisdom of mothers: "If my mother is listening, mother, I should have listened to you: Always chew your pretzels before you swallow." (CNN )
3 He who takes medicine is ill advised
He's spot on about this one too. It's been well-publicized in the last couple of decades that we're an overmedicated society. We take pills for minor aches and pains, and there seems to be a pill for everything we presume to suffer, from ADD and baldness to vomiting and diarrhea. Doctors are too much influenced by big pharma so do not always have the patient's best interest in mind. For those self-administering, treating an ailment with the wrong medication make matters even worse (Mott Children's Hospital).
4 Beware anger and avoid stuffy air
We all know anger kills. What's this about stuffy air? Turns out being inside can sometimes be pretty bad for your health too. There are biological pollutants such as mites, molds, dander, and cockroaches. Then you have cigarette smoke, asbestos, lead dust, carbon monoxide, the list goes on. Being inside is as hazardous to your health as standing in the middle of rush hour traffic huffing exhaust fumes.
5 Stay standing a while when you get up from a meal
Gravity helps keep food where it belongs, in the stomach area and not backing up into the esophagus area, thus decreasing the likelihood of heartburn. Simple physics.
6 Make sure you do not sleep at midday
Avoiding naps during the day leads to more restful sleep at night.
7 Let your wine be mixed with water, take little and often, not between meals, not on an empty stomach
It wasn't until the 1990s that Americans realized the health benefits of regular wine-drinking. Alcohol has been used for its curative properties for millennia; the Egyptians were brewing beer 5000 years ago to treat illnesses. It took a French scientist, Dr. Serge Renaud, to deliver us from our benightedness. We should've just studied Leonardo's Last Supper a little more closely to see what the Apostles were drinking.
8 Neither delay nor prolong your visit to the toilet
Now, this prescription I'm curious about because we've all enjoyed an entire magazine while on the throne. It's one of the more relaxing times of the day for many of us, the far stall being a great place to avoid the boss. I was shocked to discover that just sitting on the toilet too long can lead to hemorrhoidal flare-ups because it increases the pressure on the veins of the anus. Get on and get off. Don't linger like a panhandler outside a 7-Eleven.
9 If you take exercise, let it not be too strenuous
Those who do little vigorous exercise actually die from heart attacks less often versus those who train long and hard. Seems counterintuitive as heck but, as with everything, moderation seems to be the key.
10 Do not lie with your stomach upward and your head downward
We've already mentioned the heartburn reducing benefits of keeping your stomach below your head; there are also other downsides of having your head below your belly. Giraffes graze from treetops because if they bend down to nibble low-lying grass when they straighten back up they can lose consciousness because of the sudden change of pressure when the blood pooled in the head region flows back into the body. So, hanging upside down for long periods may cause several health issues, such as hemorrhaging, even though your neck probably isn't as long as a giraffe's.
11 Be well covered at night and rest your head and keep your mind cheerful
From another smart and talented fellow, Benjamin Franklin, "A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather". Old Ben Franklin was another polymath of some renown so I'll go with it.
12 Avoid wantonness and keep to this diet
Leonardo had one close female friend his entire life, his closest companions being his lifelong pupils Salai and Melzi. It's been speculated that he may have been gay but it seems more likely he was asexual, not having a high regard for sex at all. He commented "the act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions". Hmm, this one I'll suffer the consequences of not abiding by. A man can't live on virtue alone. - vuzman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I think this means if you lie on an incline with your head on the lower end and feet on the higher end.
- BillOReilly08, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The author missed the big point about #2. Simple ingredients==no chemicals, additives, preservatives, correct?
- rarkai, on 10/11/2007, -10/+14Didn't he sleep with young boys? I will admire him, I dont want to live like him.
- statix, on 10/11/2007, -2/+613. Get off digg.
- dotMH, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I would have named the title "Da Vinci's code to Healthy Living".
- misfit410, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Certainly, who wouldn't want to live to the ripe old age of 67!!!!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3As posted previously, medicine then was vastly different than it is now. Ignoring the jab at ADD's legitimacy, one would be ill advised to avoid all medication always because of "big pharma". I think we ARE an over-medicated society, but I'd shudder to think of a world completely absent of medicine.
- getsalted, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Strenuous is a relative term. Strenuous exercise is what some high school football coaches put their teams through at the beginning of the season when a few of the players have to be rushed to the emergency room from heat and dehydration problems.
Just because you broke a sweat doesn't mean your exercise was strenuous. - Jams, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3@Odjn:
"And that wine thing is only applicable if you already have heart problems, it does nothing for you when you don't have heart problems. Like taking chemo when you don't have cancer."
It is said that red wine helps lower LDL cholesterol, surely this would help prevent heart disease! Another reason drinking red wine may be good for you, is that it is a rich source of anti-oxidants.
I fail to see how you can draw a comparison between chemotherapy and drinking red wine... - gerharder, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4@ diahreamachine
return to 4chan idiot - Calculusaurus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3"Make sure you do not sleep at midday
Avoiding naps during the day leads to more restful sleep at night."
This "article" links to a web-md source that doesn't even back this claim. The web-md source simply says that avoiding naps during the day can make an insomniac more tired at night, but nowhere gives the general statement that avoiding naps will make anyone's and everyone's sleep "more restful" (i.e. healthier).
I say we forget things like books written by doctors, and just get our health advice from ***** blogs instead! - demonotaku, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Good article except for the parts about medicine and when he compared being inside to standing in the middle of rush-hour traffic. Yes, we are over medicated, but some of them people need and such. He made it sound like all medicine is bad for you and all physicians are in the pockets of pharmaceutical agencies. And the part about being inside, that MAY be true in some places. But not all.
- gerharder, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2@ jojolaura12
blocked - dmoz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2"And that wine thing is only applicable if you already have heart problems, it does nothing for you when you don't have heart problems. Like taking chemo when you don't have cancer."
Terrible analogy, really. Perhaps you should have said, "like taking aspirin when you don't have a headache." Anyway, I'm not a doctor, but I'd guess it's not the case that drinking wine is only useful for someone who already has heart problems. You know, there's that whole thing about prevention, too. Be healthy and stay healthy... not get sick first. - vondur, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3A lot of good it did him, he is dead you know. ;)
- maradona, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2or we just take health advice from random diggers
- The_Dude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Red meat and scotch are missing from his prescription.
Yeah, on the strenuous exercise thing. When I worked out at the athletic club (haven of older white guys with money; I am neither yet) a trainer told me about how old dudes occassionally just die while working out. Pretty ironic since they are usually fit and athletic older guys. - gerharder, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3@statix
okay, now get out - DreKor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"It wasn't until the 1990s that Americans realized the health benefits of regular wine-drinking. Alcohol has been used for its curative properties for millennia; the Egyptians were brewing beer 5000 years ago to treat illnesses. It took a French scientist, Dr. Serge Renaud, to deliver us from our benightedness. We should've just studied Leonardo's Last Supper a little more closely to see what the Apostles were drinking."
That'd be all well and good if they were actually drinking anything. There aren't any cups or bottles in that fresco. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2@ RonPaul2008
You didn't understand what he wrote at all. - luksy, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4I wonder exactly what kind of "exercise" he was talking about...for a man who apparently hated sex he sure spent a lot of time around young men...
- kibiz0r, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4Well, I'm *****, at least according to Da Vinci.
Also,
"Do not lie with your stomach upward and your head downward."
Is this some kind of yoga stuff? wtf? - rafakr, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3It's missing only one thing
"Pizza and Wii" - getsalted, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2"We should've just studied Leonardo's Last Supper a little more closely to see what the Apostles were drinking"
I thought the whole point of The Last Supper was that there are no cups painted on the table. Awful hard for the Apostles to be drinking anything when there is no drink on the table.
Da Vinci's advise is debatable, but the author of this article is clearly a half-wit. - KnightWhoSaysNi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2@PATSCRU
I think your math is a little bit off.
20 minutes every 3 hours is only 160 minutes per day.
Sorry: stevenvh had already posted this. - Yazilliclick, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2The medication part is still valid to this day. Far too many people run to the doctors for the smallest of aches or pains or simply pick up the strongest pain medicine they can without a prescription. Fact is medicine is constantly having to deal with drugs and antibiotics constantly losing their effectiveness on people due to overuse.
I can relate of at least two people I know who would always pop a tylenol or two when they got even the slightest headache. Over the years they generally began needing more and having more headaches. - caesar0801, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1agreed... had the same reaction ;-)
- DragonzKin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I think this article plays strongly to "everything in moderation." Obviously this is not our strength in America as a culture, we tend to be excessive. Basically Davinci's credo was dont overdo it. Interesting, I didn't know he was a vegetarian... I thought lean meat in "moderation" was healthier for you than none at all? ^_^
- 5xSTUN, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I can't wait for the Renaissance philosopher, artist, and inventor to appear on Oprah to announce both his book plans and his pending nuptials to some Hollywood starlet half his age.
- exodar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0 KRAMER: Hey everybody. (to Jerry) Listen, uh, do me a favour, will you? I got
a hot date tonight with Connie. Knock on my door, wake me up in twenty
minutes, alright?
JERRY: Catnap?
KRAMER: No, no, no, no. (comes in) This is evolutionary. I been reading this
book, on Leonardo de Vinci. See, that means 'from Vinci', d'you know that?
JERRY: (deadpan) That must be some book.
KRAMER: Yeah, well, turns out that the master slept only twenty minutes every
three hours. Now, that works out to two and a half extra days, that I'm awake
per week, every week. Which means, if I live to be eighty, I will have lived
the equivalent of a hundred and five years.
JERRY: Just imagine how much more you'll accomplish.
KRAMER: Oh, I got a lot of things in the hopper, buddy.
Kramer heads for the door.
JERRY: I didn't know you had a hopper.
KRAMER: (smiling) Oh, I got a hopper. A big hopper.
=========================================
If I remember right Kramer wakes up in a sack in the East River later in the episode...so probably not a good idea to follow Da Vinci :) - RonPaulPres2008, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1You must be blind or mentally disabled or both. Everyone can look at what you wrote, it is right there. You dismiss Da Vinci and you dismiss the time in which he lived because of their inefficient medical technology. Are you lying to yourself? Because you can't lie to anyone else, your post is plain to see.
- RonPaulPres2008, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Actually everything he says is completely valid even until this day. Do a little research and you'll find that generally most doctors, experts, and scholars have been bringing up, or are starting to bring up, everything he says as very important to living healthily.
I would trust Da Vinci over a know-it-all digger like you anyday. You don't even provide sources or explanations, all you can bring up is your hatred of the past for their superstition. You're clearly ignorant and biased. You are a nobody, why should anyone just take your word for it? 'Cuz you don't live in the past? ROFL. Good day sir. - Scrollfx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0It means don't let your stomach be above your head, like when you are doing a hand stand.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1PATSCRU is actually right, taking 6-8 20-minute naps a day is the equivalent of an 8 hour sleep. Of course you have to get used to that program (it takes about a week or so) and it complete omits the REM sleep. The non-REM sleep is the one that refreshes us and enables us to start a new day while the REM sleep properties are unknown to this day. So taking short naps -while avoiding the REM phase- doesn't mean it is better from a full 8-hour sleep since we don't know how would it work in the long term (REM sleep may actually help in the long term), but it actually works on the short-term as it is observed from people who had such programs for some months or so. Sticking to the sleep matter -I think- Da Vinci was wrong saying that midday naps are but for you, according to recent research being done to some people those who had midday siestas were healthier than those without, leading scientists to admit a short nap in the middle of the day is actually helpful.
As for the excessive exercising Da Vinci is absolutely right and I find it annoying that people do not get the proper education on this matter. Overexercising has been proved to have bad properties many of the times exceeding those of underexercising. It's only understood recently through the theory of free radicals that exercising too much brings forth aging faster while it brings many other mishaps along with it. So although most of you believe that spending a day on the gym is healthy it will come to you as shock to you that it is not and concerning how bodybuilding topics are pushed on the frontpage at times I have to say you that falsely di you envy such bodies as they may even be less healthy than yours in the long run. Exercising moderately is the silver bullet you must keep at that.... - JunkBondKing, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Nowhere near as much value here as the article suggests.
I would say not taking medication when you need it would be a very quick way to die under many circumstances.
Da Vinci was a genius but also a bit of a crackpot. He also only lived to age 67 (which wasn't bad for those days but it's not exactly impressive). - Jyff, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1it's "leonardo" not "da vinci"
- grve, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2meaning to not over-exercise to the point of harming yourself, not to stop exercising you lazy ***** :)
- beefsupreme, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2What about sweet, sweet man-love?
- FunnyFlower, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0oOps, I mean 12 steps to healthy living! Duh!
- FunnyFlower, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0Maybe you should post Da Vinci's 12 steps to freedom, that way we can all comment!
- Triffid, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2"Do not lie with your stomach upward and your head
Downward"
How the hell would you even do that? turn your head 180 degrees? - Bomster, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1Says the man who dug up pregnant women.... arghhhhh
- EBFoxbat, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2What did he know? He was a moron. ...wait a minute...
- PATSCRU, on 10/11/2007, -13/+6i thought davinci was the one who practiced 20 minutes of sleep for every 3 hours of activity, if you follow that throughout the 24 hr. day, you should get 8 hours of sleep....(non REM, mind you)
- Odjn, on 10/11/2007, -11/+3Don't take medicine? I like how that article doesn't even mention when you should take some.
Bringing up the President as one person why you shouldn't totally chew your food? What the hell?
And that wine thing is only applicable if you already have heart problems, it does nothing for you when you don't have heart problems. Like taking chemo when you don't have cancer.
And I'm pretty sure in our obese society, everyone could take value from from some exercise to begin with, hard or light. I'm pretty sure in Da Vinci's time they didn't have the problems of morbid obesity.
Who the hell is upside down most of the time?
Buried.
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