Thursday, February 14, 2013

Who Are The Healthiest People on Earth?



With our upcoming Health & Wellness series starting on March 21, I began to wonder who the healthiest people on earth were. If you guessed it was the Japanese, then you guessed correctly.
If you live in Japan the quality of health there is ranked number one in the world according to a decades-long study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Unfortunately, the United States is not ranked as high-we score high on the money spent on health care though, close to billions more than any other country.

So, what is Japan’s secret?

  •  They follow strict dietary practices.
  • They have strong family and social support in their lives.
  • They stay close to their culture and values  
  • They routinely devote part of their day to prayer and spiritual study. They strive to be kind and forgiving, calm and patient.

Therefore, it's not just one secret that the Japanese follow.  It’s more of a healthy state of mind.  The secret to vitality and longevity is incorporating these habits into your daily life.
Join us this spring for several lectures at the FAU Lifelong Learning Society that will put you on the path to being one of the healthiest people on earth.

What is Craniosacral Therapy?
Mar. 21
9:45 a.m.

Enhancing Your Golf Performance
An Innovative Approach to Staying Fit and Healthy for the Game
Mar. 28
9:45 a.m.

Ancient Solutions to Modern Problems
How Acupuncture Has Become Part of the Establishment Whilst Changing Its Very Fabric
Apr. 4
9:45 a.m.

Inflammation, the True Silent Disease
How the food you eat is increasing your arthritic pain and chronic diseases
Apr. 8
9:45 a.m.

To register for the lectures, visit www.llsjupiter.com.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Defiant Requiem



On February 24, 2013 at 4 p.m. the FAU Lifelong Learning Society in Jupiter will be present Defiant Requiem, a feature-length documentary film which illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezin.

In late 1943, a chorus of 150 Jews imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp engaged in 16 performances of Verdi’s Requiem—learned by memorization from a single vocal score and accompanied by a legless upright piano—before audiences of other prisoners, SS officers, and German army staff members. Their purpose: to sing to their captors words that could not be spoken.

Lifelong Learning is honored to be the first venue in South Florida to showcase this remarkable story of Rafael Schachter, a brilliant young and passionate Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terzin in 1941.  This film explores, with testaments from surviving members of the choir, the singer’s view of the Verdi music as a work of defiance and resistance to the Nazis. Schchter instructed the choir to “sing to the Nazis what they could not say to them.”

Concevied by Murry Sidlin, a distinguished conductor, educator and artistic innovator, Defiant Requiem was directed by executive producer Peter Schnall, the founder of Partisan Pictures. Mr. Schnall is a six-time Emmy Award winning film-maker who specializes in creating high quality films and non-fiction programming. Murry Sidlin and Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat, who has dedicated his career to providing justice for Holocaust survivors and served as a supporter and advisor to the film, will conduct a discussion following the film.

The Honorable Ann Brown will serve as a moderator for the discussion. Ann, and her husband, Donald Brown, are sponsoring a reception to follow the presentation.

Tickets are $20 for members, $25 for non-members and are available online at www.llsjupiter.com.