My health has not improved much over the week. Today I was only able to do two half-hour rounds of fast walking – once again my pulse went skyward as soon as I started walking.<\/p>\n
While worrying over this, I realized that I now am bothered by only exercising an hour a day. In my case, that’s just what the doctor ordered. In general, health authorities recommend half an hour of exercise a day, five days a week. And less than a year ago I read about how, if everyone would walk 15 minutes a day, society could save billions in health expenses.<\/p>\n
Because I have had exercise asthma since I was a toddler, I have spent the past 45 years or so thinking of myself as weak, frail and sickly. Then when the cardiologist finds out that I instead have borderline superpowers, I almost immediately start taking them for granted. And so I go “oh poor me, I only exercised an hour today”. Yeah, that is what people love to hear. The health equivalent of “the economy is tough for us all, I could only buy one new yacht this year”. ^_^<\/p>\n
Of course, the sudden change in my body is still suspicious. But it just means that right now I am on an ordinary human level. That is probably not (in itself) a sign of impending doom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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