{"id":788,"date":"2018-02-27T09:42:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T14:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/?p=788"},"modified":"2018-02-27T09:42:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T14:42:02","slug":"roberson-chap-8-and-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/2018\/02\/27\/roberson-chap-8-and-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberson &#8211; Chap 8 and 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, shout out to Ancel Keys for figuring it out even though people didn\u2019t listen to him. \u201cIt\u201d being a healthy lifestyle. Aside from learning briefly about how, the general main findings from chapter 8 were not so surprising; generally, those who were active children remained active into their mid-years, and then most participants\u2019 activity declined into old age. With regards to chapter 9, I have heard the phrase \u201cMarried people live longer,\u201d but when it was narrowed to more so married men, that surprised me. It had always been my understanding that women generally live longer than men\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Page 100 blatantly states that even if you were greatly active at a young age (even all the way through college and a little thereafter as my father was), that if you stop staying active (and your food intake increases, or stays the same minus the same amount of activity), that you will cut years off of your life. I feel I mention my parents a lot and that\u2019s just because that\u2019s where topics of health hit home the most for me. Like most others, I just hope my parents live as long as they want to.<\/p>\n<p>One summer my family and I were vacationing and went on a hike up a popular hill\/mountain (it wasn\u2019t too terribly strenuous, but still a challenge). Amidst our hike, my brother and I came across an elder gentlemen who was in great shape\u2014six pack, strong arms, and legs and all\u2014but he certainly looked as if he was at least 60, and he was walking with what appeared to be two grandchildren. From that moment, I declared I would be a buff grandpa. My current trajectory would reasonably predict I am on track, so that\u2019s good. Going throughout my life, I hope I am able to marry (once, and only once) and keep my wife happy and aid in us both living healthy, long lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, shout out to Ancel Keys for figuring it out even though people didn\u2019t listen to him. \u201cIt\u201d being a healthy lifestyle. Aside from learning briefly about how, the general main findings from chapter 8 were not so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/2018\/02\/27\/roberson-chap-8-and-9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65931,40548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-8","category-chapter-9"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}