The end of an era approaches

I have just discovered that Ruth Pearson of Pan's People died a couple of weeks ago. Of the founding members, only Dee Dee Wilde now survives.

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Nightjar
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Oh dear. I had noted only recently that there were only two left (I was researching one of the later ones, who was my next door neighbour when I was at school and afterwards,).

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Bob Eager

What sort of ages did they die at. It often seems that these people who were supposed to be fit and athletic are the people with new knees and hips not having been fitted and they also tend to die young. What does this say about keeping fit one has to ask? Brian

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Brian Gaff

bend down touch knees into bed does it for me .....

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Jim GM4DHJ ...

google broken today?

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tim...

Ruth Pearson was 70. The others died in their 60s.

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Nightjar

Yes - very sad. And oddly all died well before their time, having been born in the late '40s. One would have hoped all that exercise would have been good for them.

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Dave Plowman (News)

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Huge

she smoked

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Jim GM4DHJ ...

every bugger I knew from school that smoked that smoked is dead .......

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Jim GM4DHJ ...

Brian, Ruth Pearson died of cancer. Cancer unfortunately is no respector of persons and the one statistic which does stand out ,is that basically the older you are the greater your chances of being diagnosed. People aged 70, Ruth's age, represent 50% of all new cancer diagnoses. And aside from not smoking positive prevention by eating lots of different anti-oxidants in a wide variety of fruit and veg has only a marginal well maybe 10% benefit. This latter is only a guess as proper epidemiological studies actually following up people for years who say claim to eat more than one apple a day are very expensive to conduct. And apple growers in various countries are all in competion with each other. Same with all other fruit. The one really robust study, one concerning lypocene in cooked tomatoes was conducted in behalf of H.J.Heinz, but attracted suspicion for that very reason

Dancers were and are particulalrly susceptible to knee, ankle and hip injuries. At any one time a high proportion are carrying an injury of some kind which is masked by medication and support bandages when not performing. There's a tradition of the show must go on and plenty of aspirants waiting in the wings. A lot of them also walk like cripples even during their careers. So its maybe not suorring that they'll be first in line for joint replacements.

But for the ones lucky enough to avoid cancer and assuming they can still manage to walk, the cardiovascular and respiratory advantage they built up during their careers should last them the rest of their lives.

michael adams

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michael adams

On 11-Jul-17 12:43 PM, michael adams wrote: ...

It didn't stop Louise Clarke from dying of heart failure at the age of 62.

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Nightjar

What about Babs Powell? I haven't seen reports of her passing to my knowledge.

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The Other John

Chronic over-exercising (which is essentially what these women did as part of their job) is now linked to poor longevity. As always, the key to good health is *moderation* in all things.

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Cursitor Doom

Sue suffered from severe foot pain even during her prime years with PP and L&C. Arthritis I believe it was. Frequently reduced her to tears.

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Cursitor Doom

He didn't claim it would... only that the benefits of their improved fitness would last the *rest* of their lives. I suppose it must be of some comfort to life long cigarette smokers to know their heart and lungs will, likewise, also last the rest of *their* lives. That's the advantage of 'Lifetime' warranties over fixed term warranties - they never have to last forever, just a lifetime (whatever that might be). :-)

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Johnny B Good

BBS joined later. Flick Coolly who did their arrangements was the first to go to "the big dance studio in the sky" but she'd dropped out of performing early on.

There's plenty of information about them on the web. Prior to that, knowing all the precise details of their careers might have seemed a tad obsessive

michael adams

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michael adams

Plenty of info on wiki

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Babs Powell, Babs Lord before she married Robert Powell, suffers from polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), possibly as a result of her dancing career, but she notes that her mother had it and specialists believe there's some genetic correlation for the disease.

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But yes, she seems to be still alive, if creaking.

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Chris Hogg

Yes - she was the choreographer, and they don't normally perform too. But she was Flick Colby.

I can make many here jealous. Not only did I work on loads of TOTP so saw them perform in the flesh, but saw them in rehearsal too. And dancers when rehearsing can wear sexier costumes than the ones in the show.

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Dave Plowman (News)

There are plenty of benefits in enjoying good cardiovacular and respiratory function apart from "not dying", Being able to walk around, or climb stairs without having to stop every five minutes to catch their breath for one.

michael adams

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michael adams

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