Bookish Thursday - Guest Post by Sherri L. Dodd
I am fortunate enough to be able to host a guest post from author, Sherri L. Dodd. You can read my review of her book, Moonset on Desert Sands here. But one question I had, as I am about two weeks away from turning 69 (how did I get to 69!), is staying at least semi-active and fit as the old body says enough. So please, read on... The Aging Body and Fitness There is a saying that only two things are certain – death and taxes. While Benjamin Franklin aimed his phrase toward his cautious optimism of a newly created U.S. Constitution, the human aspect of the first topic only scratches the surface of its impact. Before death comes aging. In 2022, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) analyzed questionnaires from twelve-hundred-plus young adults, ages eighteen through thirty, on the topic of aging. Just over four percent of the negative perspectives focused on “decline and death.” Decline meaning anything from dementia to disease to an achy body. For the purpose of this write-up, and...
