Thing #7b

The story of Jeremy Morris caught my attention recently while going through my reader. He is a British epidemiologist whose comparison of heart-attack rates among double-decker bus drivers and conductors in London in the late 1940s and early ’50s laid the scientific groundwork for the modern aerobics movement.

His is the familiar story all of us know - that exercise is good for you. Jeremy began to exercise early in childhood. His father would take him on four-mile walks.

Almost every day, well into his mid-90s, Dr. Morris swam, pedaled his exercise bike or walked for at least half an hour.

He is credited with research that proved heart patients who exercised were less likely to have another attack, and were no longer considered invalids.

Jeremy Morris, Proved Exercise Is Heart-Healthy, died at 99½ in Hampstead, London.