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May 25, 2012 by kevinstilley

Health – select quotes

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
~ Frank Gillette Burgess

Health is not valued till sickness comes.
~ Thomas Fuller

The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.
~ Julien Offroy de la Mettrie

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
~ Jim Rohn

Filed Under: Blog, Quotes Tagged With: body, diet, fitness, Health, Wellness

November 1, 2008 by kevinstilley

Walking Trivia

The average person takes 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day, according to the American Podiatric Association.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, exercise, fitness, Health, Sports, Trivia, walking, weight loss

May 30, 2008 by kevinstilley

Girls Shouldn’t Just Wanna Have Fun

Parker & KevinGirls shouldn’t just wanna have fun, and neither should anyone else. Consider this story told by J.P. Moreland in The Lost Virtue Of Happiness which he co-authored with Klaus Issler;

When my daughter’s eight-grade team was being creamed in a soccer game, the coach said at halftime, “Girls, don’t worry about the score. The reason we play soccer is to have fun; so let’s try to have a blast during the second half and go home happy whatever the final result.” That coach reminds me of Cyndi Lauper’s song “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” He was mindlessly parroting the cultural mantra that pleasurable satisfaction is the goal of life. The reasons my wife and I wanted our daughter to play soccer where to learn how to win and to lose, to cooperate with others, to sacrifice for a long-term goal, which requires delaying instant gratification, and — well, you get the picture. What was really sad was not simply the coach’s speech, but the fact than none of the parents so much as batted an eye at his counsel.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, character, citizenship, Cub Scouts, Cyndi Lauper, Family, fitness, fun, goals, happiness, J. P. Moreland, training, Worldview

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