Eat less, exercise regularly and sleep well

Some of the most reasonable suggestions for a relatively sick-free existence consists of doing the most ordinary things.

One of which is to get enough sleep. Why is it that people always shortchange themselves when it comes to sleep. If they are supposed to sleep at 11pm, they would push it to 1am.

When they are not supposed to eat too much, they gorge themselves until they can't breathe. Only the other day, I saw on CNN the hotdog competition where the champion wolved down about 58 hamburgers!

Personally, I thought that was not something to crow over because millions around the world were starving to death. And this kind of activity doesn't reflect the sensibility of a civilised society.

People these days also prefer to be ferried around in air-conditioned vehicles. Back in my grandpa's days, common folks thought nothing of walking a mile or two to visit their neighbours.

Nowadays, you can't even find a guy to lean over the fence to shoot the breeze with you. Walking is one of the simplest exercises ever devised by human legs.

And yet, we prefer to lie down on the couch the whole day to watch the telly. No wonder our human forms are deteriorating faster than you can say "Geronimo!"