Good genes are tough to beat.
My grandma lived to be 106 and ate an “average” diet, smoked an average numbers of cigarettes, drank an average amount of liquor.
Her exercise in her last thirty years was primarily turning over cards in canasta games.
The only distinctive thing about her life—she never worked a day in her life—very low stress.
So I say stop worrying about food, stop worrying about exercise, and get the stress out of your life!
“Eat Right Stay Fit Die Anyway”
Yepper. It’s sort of a cult or religion with some, I think, loosely tied with the 7 stages of grief. As I recall, one part of that is the “bargaining” stage.
So there are people who think that by sacrificing and eating sawdust and grain, foregoing all meats, dairy, carbs, no smoking, no drinking, running 12 miles a day, they’ll live forever. Maybe they will live longer, maybe not.
It is true that with the public demanding cradle to grave subsidization by government the government will take an inordinate interest in their diet and exercise. Sort of like when I was in the Army. We had to run several miles a day, we were weighed regularly. Overweight individuals were definitely “fat shamed” I’m here to tell you. We thought it was hilarious, and frankly, so did the fat people when you get right down to it.
I had no idea someone could lose so much body fat in 8 weeks. The Army wrote the book on that shit. I recall at the obstacle course, a really fat guy, Private Waters, was halfway across a hand over hand rope deal. It was pretty high off the ground. He wasn’t going to make it. The Senior Drill sergeant quickly assessed the situation, and immediately exclaimed “I’ll ketch ya! I’ll ketch ya! I’ll ketch ya!” LOL!! Some things just sound better with a southern accent, not sure why but it’s true.
Anyway, Pvt. Waters let go, and Senior Drill stood aside. PLOP!! Nothing hurt except his pride. All that fat provides cushion, you see. By the end of training, Waters was lean and mean - and needed a new set of uniforms. He had a newfound confidence that was evident as well.
As an aside, MANY of the “social engineering” programming techniques foisted on the young these days are obviously perversions and 180° retreats from the good physical and character training techniques discovered from military type training going back probably thousands of years. Everytime we figure out what works, the leftists use the knowledge to twist it around.