> Not long go I was speaking with a physician schooled in 'Asian'
medicine.
> Learning that I was interested in training on a bike, and putting in a
lot
> of miles per week, he said that I could anticipate shortening my life
by
> frequent 'hard' exercise.
A Korean colleague explained to me one time that some Asian cultures believe that we have a fixed number of breaths allotted to us in our lifetimes. Anything that would cause more rapid breathing would therefore shorten one's life. I guess that would rule out sex, too. ;-)
Kurt Bittner
Boulder, CO