I'm doomed...

...and so are a lot of my friends.  I was reading an article recently in the latest AARP magazine about how to be heart healthy over 70.  Some advice I could agree with - eat less red meat, use less salt, and drink milk.  These are all good but there was one statement that I'm really worried about.  According to a cardiologist, here is a good fitness test. "Can you sit on the ground and get up again without using your hands? An inability to perform this action is linked to mortality in adults over 50." Now, I have watched some people sit crossed legged on the floor and rise gracefully without using their hands but they are all teenagers or younger.  If I was four feet tall and rubbery I could do it too.  Just out of curiosity, I asked people (ranging in age from 35-70+) at a meeting today if they could get up from the floor without using their hands.  No one, even the fittness instructor, could do it.  They had some really good excuses like knee and hip replacements. I guess we're all facing mortality - but then, aren't we all anyway?