What's your reason?

[coccinelle]

Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at �1000 per month.

I've just got this through an e-mail and wondered why everybody does actually do the dieting and exercising .
I do it so I won't have the tablets to take and suffer the side effects of cholestrol, high blood pressure and diabetes drugs. Why do you?

[Mamyalynne]

Well i think its a misconception to assume all with high BP and cholesterol are weighty i am 7 and a half stone at 5`6" and have never been bigger than 8 stone (barring pregnancy) and have both though they are being controlled.
I exercise where i can though i have joint problems and sight problems which restrict my outings somewhat.
Walking is good and does get you from A to B . I eat quite healthily but not obsessively.

[Mamyalynne]

Oh and in regard to Nursing home fees i agree i would rather not thanks

[Jenga]

Spend your money and get it free. Anybody who has no money will get it free. Why pay when someone who has never worked in their life gets it on a plate.

[Totterdown]

There are some dire nursing homes around and there have been some horror stories. If you are entitled to get in one for free its not going to be the top end of the scale. I think I'd rather try to save for a decent, dignified old age than be dumped anywhere just because it is free.