Discussion of attainability of human happiness

1. The Pursuit of Happiness—Your
Happiness
Presented by Richard Junker
Lions Club
Waterloo, IA
June 7, 2010

2. Today I propose to examine several facets of the
question of HUMAN HAPPINESS:
•1. Reason to HOPE for the future
•2. The obtuse nature of the human mind in pursuing happiness
•3. Alternative Avenues to Pursuing Happiness
•4. How in the world are we doing?
• 5. Necessary but not sufficient: health and long life
•6. Healthy, Wealthy and WISE
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Richard Junker

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4. The cure for the ills of health care financing
lay in the following simple, commonsense
steps for individuals to take on more
personal responsibility for their own
wellness:
i. Don't smoke. vi. Buckle up.
ii. Avoid habit-forming drugs. vii. Exercise regularly.
iii. Stay lean. viii. Sleep soundly.
iv. Monitor blood pressure andix. Drink responsibly.
cholesterol. x. Manage stress.
v. Eat sensibly.
Your body: your best investment
$400k for lifetime heart disease costs; $300k for diabetes
treatment;

5. The Wages of Exercise is Life.
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•Put a price tag on the savings you will realize from
avoiding major degenerative diseases in your prime
years of life. Say $500,000.
•Assume you exercise 30 minutes a day for 50
years, doing exactly what Deepak Chopra and Dr. Oz
tell you to do to be healthy.
•That’s 180 hours a year, or 9,000 hours of exercise in
your adult lifetime before age 70.
•Your hourly rate of pay for exercising comes to $55 per
Decision Point: What make at work? with your
hour. How much do you should you do
next free hour-- grub some more assets with
mental work, relax with Homer Simpson, or head
to the gym?
Richard Junker 10/8/2012

6. Adopt a Live-Clean Diet and
Exercise Thirty Minutes a Day
•Next after smoking, lifestyle behaviors most
threatening our health are poor diet and inadequate
exercise leading to obesity.
•Obesity is becoming the new smoking.
•In the early 1960s, the Surgeon General classified only
13 percent of U.S. adults as obese, i.e., (BMI)
exceeded 30.
•By 2005, more than one-third of all adults met this
criterion.
•Without Junker
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a reversal in this trend, obesity could lead to a
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decline in U.S. life expectancy for the first time since

7. 6. Healthy, Wealthy and WISE:
John Wooden’s Pyramid Power
http://coachjohnwooden.com/