I don’t know what you consider “regular food”, but if it is that processed, carb loaded crap the average person eats, all it is good for is to keep you fat and unhealthy-I’ve eaten fresh, organic food all my life-I take vitamins and supplements, my job involves physical work and I work out too-never been overweight, seldom even get a cold, so that natural lifestyle works for me-just my dos centavos-
We don’t eat out much. we have a lot of vegetables and fruit delivered, I eat steak multiple times a week.
After the service, I played college sports and have stayed in relative shape - at 62, I am still at my college playing weight.
I do smoke down to 1 pack a day from multiple, and I do drink more than the average person.
I don’t have a physical job, but try to remain active. A couple of years ago, my neighbors and I were putting in a fence. The young college boy was having problems using the post hole digger, the adobe type soil is a bitch to dig in the summer. He didn’t have the strength in his body. I got a free fence his dad and I dug all the fence post holes.
I don’t take vitamins or supplements. My first career, after graduate school, I did a post doc and landed a research position in Pharma and I knew people who did absorption studies of supplements and they are not imipressive, so much passes through your system. This was before I turned evil and entered the field of technology.