Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Exercise is about being grateful for the body you have and sustaining the life you have.
'Fountain of youth' is actually kind of ambiguous - does it mean a way to make everyone healthy and let them live indefinitely? Or are we talking about something that would reset you physically to the way you were in your youth, which for various reasons not all of us would be enthused about?
What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.
When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.
I would just urge the youth today to indulge in some sort of physical activity on a regular basis. A holistic approach is essential, and that also means you need to stay happy and positive.
Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it.
In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
I don't lock into one type of exercise.
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.