When international media (including movies, fashion shows, advertisements and other TV programs) convey the same messages to the global audience, people argue that the expansion of international media has negative impacts on cultural diversity.   What is your opinion?

Joggers getting up early and running through the park, executives trying to work off stress with a game of squash, and people doing bodybuilding may all be shortening their lives. According to Peter

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, a German researcher and ex-marathon runner, laziness is good for you. ‘No top sportsman’, says

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, ‘has lived to a very advanced age.’ Among the examples of athletes who have died young, he mentions Jim Fixx, the author of The Complete Book of Running, and the man who almost single-handedly launched the American fitness revolution. He died at the age of 52. As

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. With his daughter Melissa, a doctor, he has written a book called The Joy of Laziness. It says that there are three keys to long life: to play less sport, to reduce stress, and to eat a smaller amount of food. He gives the example of an Italian village with an unusually high number of very old people. They seem to owe their communal good health to following the

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principles. Nobody runs, and siestas stretch through the afternoon from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.; the main activity seems to be sitting in the shade or gossiping. Despite economic, or family problems, they are not worried. Peter

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argues that animals have only a limited amount of energy. Those who use up energy quickly live for a shorter time than those who conserve energy. So an executive who wants to compensate for a stressful day by going to the gym is in fact multiplying his problems.