During a recent interview in his sixth-floor studio loft in SoHo, Mr. Downes, who has piercing blue eyes and a wispy whitish-gray ponytail, appeared trim and exceedingly fit.
So for the new study, which was published in August in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, researchers from the department of kinesiology at the University of Maryland in College Park decided to ask a group of exceedingly fit older men and women to stop exercising for awhile.
(Of course dancers are exceedingly fit and considerably trimmer than the rest of us).
Abbott, at 58, is relatively young and exceedingly fit, he is highly experienced, a man of enormous talent and a magnificent parliamentary performer and an adept and compelling politician.
Another couple, Mark and Mary, were an exceedingly fit duo from Green Bay, Wis.
You don't have to be exceedingly fit, just take good care of yourself.
While some may be exceedingly healthy, most fit the profile of the average older adult in America, 80% of whom have at least one chronic health condition and 50% of whom have at least two.
One has to be mentally sharp, exceedingly disciplined, physically fit, emotional healthy and have a temperament of Teflon.
Respectable economic theory and the evidence from real-life healthcare both disprove their case - competitive markets fit healthcare exceedingly poorly.
What complicates the task tremendously is the ambiguity about how to fit these, exceedingly complex social programs to the specific circumstances facing developing countries.
