[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] great um currently I'm not doing a whole lot of exercise in any type of program
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I'm mainly do a lot of walking um I have a son that's a little bit overweight and um the best thing we found to do with him is to walk around so my wife and I kind of take turns um at one time I had a a fairly regular exercise program but in the last couple of months I've changed to a a new residence and everything has gotten kind of turned upside down all this space that uh normally would be dedicated towards the exercise area is uh covered in boxes
[speaker001:] yeah um what did you do when you exercised when you did exercise regularly
[speaker002:] well I had a a a little routine that I I did for uh warm ups and then I did some uh very
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] mild mild say light weight lifting nothing and I'm not trying to make big bulging muscles just trying to try stay as firm as I can stay in my old age
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] well right now um I try to when it's nice out it's been raining a lot this spring but I try to I have a bicycle and I like to cycle a lot and uh my husband and I we have entered a few rallies that's pretty popular in Texas I don't know if it's up north but
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] like every weekend a small town will sponsor a rally and uh thousands of people come with their bikes and ride over hilly terrain for thirty or forty miles which that's a lot of fun um so we try to ride ride during the week to stay in shape for that
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and um TI where I work has uh a fitness center so a lot of times after work or maybe on the weekend we'd go over there and lift weights and do the treadmill and um they have stair masters and all kinds of new machines that are fun to ride and and workout on so I try to I'm trying to stay in shape on a regular basis I used to get into it and then get out of it based on my schedule so I'm trying to stay in in shape on a regular basis now but it's a big commitment we don't have any kids yet so that's a lot of the part of it
[speaker002:] yeah that's that's that's a plus uh I have a total of five children I have three left living at home
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and they do take up a big part of my uh my evening and weekend
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and it's tough being a parent and trying to do all the things that you should do for yourself too
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] it's uh something they don't tell you about when you're growing up yes when you become a parent most of your life is going to be dedicated to your children
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's why uh they they uh really stress um at TI they really stress staying in shape but like in staying fit overall fitness you know no smoking and all that but it's it's hard to find uh a actual exercise regimen that works for you you know because like I know a lot of people that cycle they take their kids behind them on the bikes and I don't know if that would work for me because
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I don't know I wouldn't want to pull a kid over hilly terrain but you know it's really hard to find something that works and it you know to find time to do it and stay committed to it like three days a week or whatever I think maybe walking or running would probably work because you it doesn't take much time and much money or whatever
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] well there's you you have to uh what I found from my experiences you have to budget time for yourself
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and then uh the you you can use what ever rationale you want but basically the healthier you stay the longer you'll live
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and uh you know if I spend a little bit of time each day or a little bit of time every other day doing something for me to make me live longer well then I'll be around a lot longer those people that I'm taking the ten minutes or twenty minutes away from now well you know get the enjoyment of me years past where I would have been if I hadn't taken it
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so if you kind of think of it as a rationale like that it works out fine
[speaker001:] yeah um I've been learning a lot lately about um I've been reading a book by Kenneth Cooper I don't know if you're familiar are familiar with him
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] he was the pioneer of aerobics and all of health really he's kind of redid um uh just pretty much the innovator of the whole exercise thing um and he was talking about the three things you could that cause aging are smoking inactivity and what was the other one I think it was yeah obesity so if you can control those three areas then you are going to live longer you know because those are risk factors so anyway it's kind of a tip
[speaker002:] yeah oh I've done a lot of study over the years and I found that uh probably one of the worst things that uh anybody can ingest is chlorinated water
[speaker001:] really
[speaker002:] yeah um the research I've done and uh I've actually been in the drinking watering business since eighty three and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it's it's amazing that uh you know like prior to like nineteen twenty there were not very few heart attacks
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] there were none prior to nineteen hundred well in nineteen oh three they started experimenting with chlorinating the water in nineteen thirteen most of the major cities had chlorinated water and then after that we started having the hearts attacks
[speaker001:] man
[speaker002:] and uh Dr Price wrote a book Coronarys Cholesterol and Chlorine you can usually find it at a health food store
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I know they had it in health food stores in Plano I used to live in Plano
[speaker001:] Dr Price
[speaker002:] that's uh Dr Price yeah and it's amazing he makes the in you know it's a very small book and the guy's very opinionated um but he makes a very good case against chlorine there were no heart attacks before we started using it and he says points out that people in uh England and uh or eating diets that quadrupled the amount of cholesterol that we're ingesting now
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and they weren't dropping dead of heart attacks and
[speaker001:] that's really interesting
[speaker002:] yeah he did some experiments on chickens whose arteries are very similar to ours
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh proved that ingestion of chlorine causes arteriosclerosis which is the clogging of the arteries and uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know he's uh there's been a lot of reports since then and this whole thing about you know first it was stress then they went to cholesterol and now they're saying what's cholesterol well there's good cholesterol and there's bad cholesterol and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know it's it's it's amazing what he points out in that book and that um in fact he even uh there was a uh toxicologist for the Environmental Protection Agency who did work back in nineteen eighty six who wrote a letter to Dr Price in nineteen eighty seven and in this letter he praised Dr Price for the work he did back in the sixties on this
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] and said that the EPA had been doing experiments on non human primates and proving that ingestation of chlorine causes arteriosclerosis and EPA never published that report
[speaker001:] and what's the name of this book again
[speaker002:] uh Coronaries Cholesterol and Chlorine
[speaker001:] I'll have to remember that that'd be really interesting my husband wants to go into med school and be a neurosurgeon so he's really interested in the heart
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] and he's in fact he's a well heart too I mean he's uh he's done a lot of research on like how your heart re reacts reacts to exercise sorry he just made me laugh um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so anyway I have to remember that
[speaker002:] yeah there's there's a there's a lot of good information out there uh about health and a lot of the uh a lot of the myths they've been passing around people are are starting to realize aren't true I mean I'm all for having a diet high in fiber and all that because that's that's good for you
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] uh but to to believe some of the things that they you know and I don't think anybody should be going out there and eating a high high fat diet but to think that that solely alone is going to cause something like arteriosclerosis is
[speaker001:] hum-um
[speaker002:] it's just hard to believe
[speaker001:] if you get a chance read Dr Cooper's book on controlling cholesterol
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] that's a real good um he talks about that talks about high risk factors and heart disease and all that
[speaker002:] yeah I actually eat pretty much anything that I want
[speaker001:] that's right uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I've had my cholesterol checked and uh you know a few times and I've never been above uh like a hundred and fifty never
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh uh I mean I
[speaker001:] you have a good ratio of good to bad cholesterol
[speaker002:] um you you well what they tell me but I mean you know everything's like within uh five to ten percent and all that kind of thing you know they leave themselves wide open so they can't be sued
[speaker001:] yeah huh
[speaker002:] but uh we've uh I work at the TI site in Hunt Valley Maryland
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] yeah and we've had a few of the health fairs up here and you know I've always come out aces
[speaker001:] that's good
[speaker002:] and I'm you know I'm not really that big on on watching what I eat I I do eat you know some health cookies that are high in fiber and
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] low in fat and all that kind of stuff but I mean as far as being really concerned about ingesting too much uh chlorine I'm not or cholesterol I'm not worried about