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Today - discover the make-up of people born on 18th, March
! Tune in each and every day to see the traits and characteristics people born on different days of the year hold.
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| In spite of an exceptionally long life spent in rude health, much success and being blessed with good brains and good looks, March 18 is a pain spotter. She has to lie down a lot in a darkened room. But he is worse. The briefcase rattles with pills. Between high-powered telephone calls he takes out the bottles and reads them, then looks up the drugs in a reference book about prescribed drugs and their effects which he keeps in his desk. It says possible impotence can result and he panics. Which is worse? A tickle in the nose or no response at all to tickling elsewhere? He opens the Financial Times, but tucked inside is the Daily Mail's health section. It's yet another cosmetic surgery story, this time about men in the USA having jutting chin implants to make them seem more assertive in deals. March 18 slips off to the loo to examine his chin and finds the mirror space crowded with male colleagues examining theirs. Hypochondria is measured by the amount of affliction inflicted on others. The truly inflicted upon absolutely insist you go and lie down - for a long time. When this pathetic individual lurches off to find a hot water bottle, everybody in the family continues to watch ER, and shouts as he/she leaves the room 'Can you make a cup of tea?' March 18 comes in from work each evening, slumps into a chair and moans 'I'm utterly exhausted', never asking the children, who have been doing GCSEs and A levels how they've done. They excel at work because it's crowded with hypochondriacs and there's usually a Big Boss who wants to discuss a pain he's just spotted with a like-minded enthusiast. Out of work, the hypochondriac is not interested in other people's broken legs and probably wouldn't notice if the entire family sat watching ER swathed mummy-like in bandages from head to toe. |
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Eating the right diet for you is often the key to well-being. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis kept her shape and vigour by eating a favourite meal of one large baked potato, heaped with fresh caviar, and a glass of champagne. Michelangelo preferred a spartan diet of bread and wine, eating a little pasta with fresh fruit in the evening after a day's work. George Bernard Shaw avoided meat, tea and alcohol. For breakfast he had a grapefruit or porridge, for lunch beans and lentils or spaghetti and enjoyed snacking off raw vegetable sandwiches with yoghurt, and glasses of apple juice and milk. |
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Exercise feeds oxygen to the brain and keeps the flab away. Calorie counts for activities include dancing, 300 cals per hour; making love, 150 cals per act; playing golf, 133 (no cart); walking slowly, 115 cals; standing at cocktail parties, 20 cals; talking on the telephone to mum, 15 cals. |
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