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...unruly long brown hair, barely restrained by a baseball cap—almost obnoxiously worn backwards as a final jab at propriety and predictability. He is a comedian, connoisseur, entrepreneur and two-time mayoral candidate. He is Kenny Kramer—the inspiration for Seinfeld’s Cosmo Kramer...
Last week while I was on the Kramer Reality Tour (which started before the Peterman Reality tour spoofed it on Seinfeld), I came to know what it means to be a Real New Yorker. The tour is Kenny’s latest venture to find some exciting way to pass through life extraordinarily. When disco was king, he sold electronic jewelry; he has also managed a British reggae band, appeared on Judge Judy, earned not much more than cab fare as a New York comedian, and ran for mayor on a platform of legalizing marijuana. (He says his loss...
While mental exercise is getting new emphasis, physical exercise remains vital too. "The Romans said it ages ago: A sound mind and a sound body," says Dr. Robert Butler, president of the International Longevity Center in New York City. At the University of Illinois, Dr. Arthur Kramer pitted aerobic exercise against weight lifting and toning in 124 very sedentary elderly men and women without dementia--"couch potatoes," as Kramer calls them. Half were assigned to an aerobic-fitness schedule consisting of progressively longer walks; the other half did strength and flexibility exercises...
...speculated that aerobic training would increase performance in skills that have to do with executive control--planning, scheduling and/or multiple tasking," says Kramer. "And that's essentially what we found--but not for the nonaerobic group." Besides increasing the flow of blood to the brain, aerobic exercise is believed to stimulate the production of new neurons in the brain and a protein called bdnf (brain-derived neurotropic factor), which helps maintain the health and efficiency of neurons...
...exactly what I have always wanted,” Kramer said. “The staff is personable and in touch with the people...