Getting old is a state of the mind – you are as old as you feel

#MuirGray #gettingold #healthylifestyle In the opinion of Sir Muir Gray, the former chief of knowledge for the NHS, age is just a number. He has gone into details of the lifestyles of people and advises people to eat well, exercise and make small life changes. He believes that being busy is not a tenable excuse for not being fit.
He has narrated the story of a man in his 100s who received an iPad on his 100th birthday, who had just flown for the first time to Israel to fulfil a long-held ambition to swim in the Dead Sea.
That was an example of the saying that getting old is nothing but a state of the mind – you are as old as you feel.
Hence, if one is relatively free from the debilitating effects of disease, he can very well live independently and into the nineties. He can also take trains and buses, drive a car and enjoy going for walks.
As Sir Muir Gray has explained - most of the limitations that older people experience are not due to the aging process itself but, can be attributed to the way they choose to live their lives as old age sets in. His advice is that, by means of a few simple tweaks to the lifestyle, anyone can help reduce those limitations. He can stay healthy and active right into the 70s and beyond.

Israel nabs thieves trying to steal a 2000-year-old comb from the Dead Sea cave

A gang of thieves tried to steal a 2,000-year-old comb, used to remove hair lice, from a desert cave in the Dead Sea near to where the Dead Sea scrolls had been found. The comb was a part of ancient relics dating back to the Roman period, 2,000 years ago, and the Chalcolithic period, 5,000 years ago.
The items had been left behind by the rebels in ancient times and these ranged from shoes and tools to texts written on papyrus. These have remained preserved for centuries in the arid desert air and are worth their worth in gold. Hence are good propositions for looters because the relics can fetch large sums on the black market.
A set of ancient relics - known as the Dead Sea Scrolls – had been discovered in caves in this region between 1947 and 1956. These scrolls included among other things, the oldest copies of many Biblical texts, apart from secular writing relating to life in the 1st and 2nd Centuries AD.
The alleged thieves were caught by Israeli police as they were leaving a site known as the "Cave of Skulls", halfway down a sheer cliff.
Robbers have long been targeting archaeological sites in the remote area, which was a hideout for Jewish rebels in the days of the Roman Empire.
The Israel Antiquities Authority have indicated that thefts had been going on undetected for a long time and this was one instance when they have been caught. The suspects were all young men from Seir, a village near Hebron, and had expertise in rock climbing because they reached the cave by climbing and rappelling down the cliff.