In 1982, after my dad died, I found a much handled piece of paper in the middle drawer of his desk. Dad was a physician who specialized in internal medicine with sub-specialty of heart and lung disease. He was one of the early advocates for getting heart attack patients on their feet within 24 hrs. He preached and practiced the exercise mantra by walking everywhere briskly and carrying his own golf bag through twice a week eighteen hole games. Although he insisted his patients maintain a normal weight, his lack of knowledge about the role of diet in heart disease was his undoing. Hungry and poor as a youngster, the good life, to him, meant good food. He ate a high saturated fat diet and succumbed to heart disease at the age of seventy two. The worn piece of paper is one of his great legacies.

• 1. Go less, sleep more.
• 2. Ride less, walk more.
• 3. Talk less, think more.
• 4. Scold less, praise more.
• 5. Waste less, give more.
• 6. Eat less, chew more.
• 7. Clothe less, bathe more.
• 8. Idle less, play more.
• 9. Worry less, laugh more.
• 10. Preach less, practice more.