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By THERESA REYNOLDS
Rappahannock !%*•%%•* Staff Writer
New acquaintances of J. Stant Weaver of Washington are surprised to hear his age. Trim, active and energetic at eighty-three, Mr. Weaver looks at least fifteen years younger. He claims that his good health is due to his diet and to the exercises that he has been doing for over sixty years. The Voice of Experience, an area Retired Senior Volunteer Program newsletter, recently published an article on the series of exercises Mr. Weaver does each day to overcome the stiffness of old age.
Mr. Weaver started exercising daily as the result of a near fatal car accident when he was twenty-two. "I just couldn’t seem to get better, my back hurt so bad," he said. He’d been following doctor's orders, favoring his back and avoiding any strain on it.
When he was forced to continue his work as a carpenter and painter his back hurt severely for a few days and then completely improved. "That's when I knew that using my back muscles kept them from getting so stiff,” he said.
Weaver estimates that he's missed very few days of twists, stretches, bends and raises since then. "When 1 miss a day. now I really know it." Weaver told me. "1 get to feeling stiff later in the day." Weaver also thinks that his diet has contributed to his overall good health. "I have vegetables every day of the year. I eat very little meat - 1 ate like this even when 1 was butchering my own meat. 1 don't eat any meat fat or greese." Weaver was one of an extended family circle which at times numbered over twenty at home. The
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