Article #3

This article is about the healthiest places in the United States for women, and what they used to establish what state/city was the healthiest. According to "Self" magazine, Bethesda, Md. is the one of the healthiest metropolitan areas that have the healthiest and fit women, along with nine other cities.

The magazine's editors had a panel of women's health experts look at over half of the criteria in the largest metro areas in the US. The experts looked at fitness and diet, weight, heart health, smoking rates and other health factors, and then weighed access to health care, parks, trails and fitness centers, air quality, weather, commuting, smoke-free workplaces, and farmers' markets.

Bethesda got the number one spot because women there have some of the lowest rates of smoking, obesity, cancer, depression and heart disease. They also have easier access to more doctors than anywhere else, and also have acres of parks and hiking trails.

Article #2

This article is about elderly people who just do not want to retire and they would rather be keeping busy than sitting around in a retirement home. The people that the reporter interviewed were sixty-five and older, and said that it was good for the body and mind to keep working past the retirement age. One of the elderly women that he interviewed said that she had retired several times, but came out of retirement, because she had too much fun working. One of the men that the reporter interviewed said that he would keep up with what he was doing, since he was in excellent health, until a disease struck him.

I think that some eldery people would like to keep up with things and be active and are probably in better health than the ones that retire and just play golf. That sounds like a good plan to me.