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This 93-year-old has a message for us: “A beach body at 90 is no longer a dream”

on Dec 5, 2012

Charles Eugster may be 93, but he has no less spring in his step than he did as a young man. In this talk from TEDxZurich, he brings us a powerful statistic: 92% of Americans over the age of 65 have one or more chronic diseases. While many clearly cannot be avoided, Eugster points out that […]

3 talks about pushing our bodies to the limit — to send a message

By Liz Jacobs

on Aug 21, 2012

[ted id=1336] This past Monday, swimmer Diana Nyad made her fourth attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. Though this attempt ended when weather and jellyfish conditions took a turn for the worse, we can look back at her talk from TEDMED 2011 to understand how she — and all of us — found “grace in […]