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...choices affect the quality of our old age. "Eating that hamburger will make you older tomorrow than if you ate that salad today. And you will be younger tomorrow if you exercise today." Some suggestions are bromide-simple: wear a seat belt, take an aspirin a day, floss your teeth daily. Others are more intriguing: Enjoy (safe) sex frequently. "By making simple decisions, you can take your foot off the gas pedal," says Roizen, "and slow down your rate of aging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coming Of Age | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

Accept your limitations. A lot of us get hung up on the idea that we have to reform perfectly or not at all. We floss our teeth twice a day every day for a week, then we forget one morning and give up trying for the rest of the year. Let's face it. You're going to suffer setbacks. Be honest with yourself about why they happened, then pick up the pieces and move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diet: Try, Try Again | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...care institute calls to ask how often I floss, I might say a couple of times a week, because I know I should and wish I did. No doubt this was the mentality of the more than 3,000 working adults who, when asked by the Families and Work Institute whether they were spending more time with their families, said, "You betcha!" Men claimed they were devoting more than two hours every day to Kinder and Kuche, half an hour more than 20 years ago. This, naturally, spawned outsize headlines, led by the New York Times's MEN ASSUMING BIGGER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does He Or Doesn't He? | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...Wash. Floss. Flush. Brush. Pay your bills. Recycle. Call your mother...

Author: By Amanda P. Fortini, | Title: 100 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU GRADUATE | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

...Mill on the Floss Ah, if only all Sunday-night TV movies dealing with women in peril could be as subtly haunting as this PBS version of George Eliot's 1860 novel. The filmed story of Maggie Tulliver (played by Emily Watson) features no stalkers, mind you, but evokes poetically the inescapable dangers of possessing a divided heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE BEST TELEVISION OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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