Running: A Fever

How many times have a stated that stress is a vicious killer, a slayer of men, a menace to all earthly life? Today I want to talk about how to avoid it, so we can live longer, happier, healthier lives to the very end. But we all have stress. It is a part of life. Without it, we would be even worse off. It is a survival mechanism that kicks our bodies into high gear when we are taken by surprise with a serious threat, so we can do what needs to be done. I was thinking about this today in regards to the human animal and other animals. Very few animals live longer than humans. Perhaps some tortoises and elephants, maybe a few kinds of parrot. Animals seem to face a lot more stress. They can't go to a grocery store to get food, or even to a soup kitchen. I think of lions and tigers, who have to kill some hard-to-kill prey, and fight off other lions and tigers and other animals who might want the same food. But when you put them in captivity, a situation in which their survival has no external threat, food is prov