Frank Georgalis – Writer

Longevity: The Secret of Living Longer Part II

By Frank Elias Georgalis

See cows as your friends        And have beef as a side dish

MIXTURES of REMEDIES for LONGEVITY

Living on High Places

Living on high places

Here I am again, I began to write this article as one shot project, but digging I have  found much important information that has to be told.

There are many roads and remedies that lead to longevity; I’ll go on and mention all the ones that I know, including the ones which are silly or misunderstood and the ones which they deal with preventive medicine.

Now that I am convinced that we decide by our actions the length of our stay here on earth I conducted some research for me to live longer, which is called longevity. Some of the findings may be called “Old Wives’ Tales,” and some are based on logic, common sense and medical research. But there is a reason behind all of my findings.

All the statistics verify that living on high places and having a lot of children prolongs life. Science accepts that as the truth.

I am not really a fan of statistics because I have observed in the past that statistics are conducted to make news. I just read that women who are on the pill live longer. Is taking the pill extends their life expectancy? I don’t think so. According to what I understand from doctors and medical researchers; the pill has nothing to prevent any kind of sickness or physical disorders, the only thing it prevents is pregnancy. Please understand that women who have heart condition or high blood pressure or have kidney problems cannot take the pill. What does this tell you? It tells you that only healthy women can take the pill, obviously they will longer than the sick ones. What really means to me that you cannot and you should not believe everything you read.

Going back to living in high places subject: I can believe and it doesn’t take a genius to understand that the air on high places is cleaner and the longevity of our lungs is depending on clean air.

But having a lot of children was beyond my imagination, so I began to think and search at several different directions for an answer.

Having Many Children

Suddenly one came to my mind. Science has recently discovered that women who stay home as housewives are at higher risk being stricken with cancer than the women who have jobs and are working out of the house. A lot of the movers and shakers of different research institutions rushed to houses around the country looking for things that may cause cancer. They turned furniture upside down searching behind cabinets and walls, they picked up the linoleum from the kitchen, disassembled the stove and sinks and they found nothing that could cause any kind or form of cancer. They began to interview the housewife. Interviewing the housewife, they realized she was bored. Boredom weakens the immune system which gave me the answer to having many children. Who can be bored with a lot of children around? Boredom is deadlier than stress. Many doctors profess that it is necessary to having some stress. You have heard and you probably know that many who retired died shortly thereafter, from being bored. I am surprise to find out that boredom is often viewed as a trivial and mild irritant, even though boredom has been linked to a wide range of psychological and physical problems. Therefore, I would say that boredom is one of the first rulings, linked to life span: DON’T BE BORED.

I said boredom is deadlier than stress is because it is easier to get rid of stress than boredom.

Boredom may lead to depression, which can lead to a mental dysfunction. There are three types of boredom, all of which involve problems of engagement of attention. These include times when we are prevented from engaging in something, when we are forced to engage in some unwanted activity, or when we are simply unable to do things we used to do.

A house wife is forced to stay home and cook and clean the house and wash clothes. No challenge in her life. Having many children will give her the power to pay attention. There are other remedies to snap out of boredom. Jesus said that a person must have two friends; one is himself or herself and the other is the mate. Learn to be a little more selfish. We are not just speaking about boredom here, we are speaking about health and life and death. Pick up on things that please you. If you must, fall in love again, do it and it won’t be wrong. Adjusting yourself to being a little more selfish, you will discover many things that will please you and will snap you out of boredom.

Not too long ago, I was interviewing people about their stations in life. Most told me that they were doing something that wasn’t their plan from the beginning. One young woman told me that she was a speech therapist, but she wanted to be a painting artist. Half way in her first year of the painting class, she was called by her teacher and was told that she could not ever be an artist. He told her that talent in painting is like cholesterol, half is handed down by Uncle Louie and Aunt Ethel and the other half is created by our life style. He told her that he didn’t think that she had an Uncle Louie and Aunt Ethel to pass down to her any artistic talent in painting. I don’t have to tell you that cholesterol is a great factor to life span. There is nothing we can do with what we have inherited but there many things we can do to minimize our own created cholesterol. Avoid the intake of high cholesterol intake which, most of it comes from animal fat or red meat to be more specific. In other words too much meat is harmful to us. But why? I am not a religious fanatic, but I believe that most parts of our life are naturally programmed. Being harmful eating too much meat may be called a Theological Phenomenon. Can you imagine what would happen if we didn’t know that meat is harmful to us? We would be killing each other for one pound of beef or lamb or pig. Nature knew that there would be no way to raise so much meat for the people on earth, so nature put quota as to how much meat we can eat. A longtime ago, smart people realized the meaning of that ruling and imposed lent, and days for fasting and connected to religion, which, in my opinion, has something to do with religion. For example, in the Greek Orthodox Religion is a sin to eat meat or anything that has blood, on Wednesdays and Fridays. You don’t have to be a Greek Orthodox member; you can follow that ruling. No meat on Wednesdays and Fridays you’ll see you will feel better. That is one good method in controlling the cholesterol in your blood stream.