All sounds good but the percentage of body fat is a far better measure of health than BMI. One thing that was not mentioned was stress levels. Managing stress is a major factor in health and ignoring it is foolish IMO. Something else that people forget is that when they retire they stop moving and that is a major factor when it comes to becoming unhealthy. Exercise, especially balance, core and breathing, are essential as we age. Something as simple as taking the dog for a walk in the park every day can achieve all of those things but many don't even put in that much effort.
Some of those places must be soaking it in MSG and/or the other (sodium xxxphosphate?) solution often used on shrimp. Yuk. I can't eat it that way anymore.
That’s a somewhat tabloid misrepresentation of the truth. It is good that you’ve linked both the news article and the actual research source so people can see exactly how much the journalists took from the research and how much they seem to have blindly extrapolated or simply made up. For example, I can’t see anything in the research specifically mentioning wine. These are all common sense habits for good health but they basically boil down to diet and exercise. If you’ve not worked that out already, this kind of thing isn’t going to make any difference.
Many older people today are not in good health, and would be dead if not for taking numerous medications. I know someone my age, several in fact, that are on so many meds! Looks like a drug store resides in their homes. But you might mean suffering. Who wants to live a life in pain and suffering. Not me! I came very close to death already, and am currently at its door. When I was suffering, I was not at all wanting to hang around. I had resigned myself to dying and was perfectly fine with it. If your quality of life is really bad, death is the way out of it. But not so sure I would have felt this way if I had been young. But I am old, not young. So a different perspective. One thing is for certain. No one is gonna get out of this place alive. The next thing is fairly certain...most christians want to go and be with jesus, but no one wants to die in order to do it! ha ha ha
Then that flies in the face of long lifers, that I have seen to run in families. People lived to be very old long ago, but the average life span was shorter, given the infant mortality rate being so high. I think it is the biggest factor in people who live to be close to a hundred. Or those that exceed 100. But for the rest of us, yeah, advances in medicine has played a most important role. And even living conditions.
salt in itself is valuable it's a requirement to stay alive if you crave salt then you're body is telling you you need more, the amount of salt you on eggs or to cooking is okay...but the salt that comes in processed food is what overloads our BP...I also eliminated processed foods but I still need to take blood pressure medication forever, the change in diet came too late to reverse my high BP without meds.
true but the quality of life is affected by how you treat your body...is that last 10-15 years going to be spent walking and enjoying life or are shuffling about with a walker confined to your home...
I'v virtually eliminated processed foods from my diet so most of the extra salt and sugar are gone, reducing the size of my meals to caloric level that matches my activity level is also part of good nutrition...
I gave up processed meats about a decade ago when I realized that they were causing migraines. I have just discovered Tissue Salts and now I am taking a single tablet per day as a test to see if it makes any difference to how I feel.
as my doctor friends tell me keep moving, keep working, when you stop you start dying... my Neurologist buddy said the same applies to the brain, learn new things that you've never done before, read new things other than what you already know, your brain needs to be active and challenged or it goes weak and deteriorates just like your body...
never heard of Tissue Salts, I'll need to look into that...how's it going taste on my eggs and fries?
Yup, the use it or lose it syndrome. That is why core and balance exercises are so essential for retirees. If you lose your balance, fall and break a hip that will stop you moving. I am pushing 66 and I can stand on my toes for 2 minutes.
I agree totally. Thats why I still like to live a clean lifestyle. I could be hit by a truck tomorrow or I could live to 90. If I live that long I dont want it to be in a hospital bed for as long as I can prevent it.
It isn't because they come as OTC tablets. A German scientist named Schuessler discovered them by burning body tissues and examining what remained. http://schuesslertissuesalts.com.au/about/history/ I found out about them through a medical doctor who was an allergy specialist. I am in reasonably good health so I am sticking to a very low dose regime.
as do I, longevity runs deep in my family and those who abused/ignored their bodies are having miserable time with their last years and could have had a much better time of it... nothing we can do about trucks , probably a preferable way to die versus what some of my family members endured
if they don't taste good on my eggs and fries it's going to hard to motivate me to take another medication...
I just take a single pill with my other meds every day. Since I am doing it as an experiment to see if it makes a difference I am not vested in it. The cost was negligible ($12) for 100 tabs and that will last me 3 months at the rate I am taking them.
our bodies crave fat, because it's an essential ...sucrose/candy, yeah I've eliminated that, it took awhile before I adapted to black coffee...
I totally agree. You mat still live to 90 but the quality if life is where your 20s to 50s comes into play. Hell I had friends that died before 50 due to abuse of alcohol.
Processed sugar is bad. A recent study estimates that about 1/3 of all health care costs - $1 Trillion a year in the US - are related to the consumption of sugar. But too much starch is bad. Too much fat, and esp saturated fats, is bad. But what seems to be worse is eating too much sugar and starches, AND too much fat. Go low fat or low carb, but at least make a choice. And above all, eating too many calories of anything, makes you fat. Ketogenic diets appear to inhibit and in some cases even cure cancers. Cancers need glucose to grow and insulin to spread. Ketogenic diets tend to minimize both glucose and insulin levels. And ketones are literally toxic to some tumors. With this, some experts are thinking that anyone with a family history of cancer should go low carb. People with histories of heart disease dominant should go low fat.
yup, I see that in my family, those who drank too much and smoked are paying the price for that, those that didn't are still walking and aging well attending funerals of those who indulged too much...
exactly what Im seeing. If you want to drag around an oxygen bottle at 70...then smoke into your 50s. I prefer to be able to walk past my kitchen at 70.
my mom never smoked and had one or two brandies or eggnog's at xmas, lived entirely on her own always on her feet working at something until she was 96, just like her mother and both died at 102...my father, a lifetime of smoking unfiltered cigarettes and cigars and over medicated on alcohol daily, paid the price for that and suffered a horrible existence for the last 20 years of his life and died at 82...82 doesn't sound bad but the quality of his life was terrible, heart issues, BP issues, diabetic, emphysema ...I'm 65, MDs say I'm in fantastic condition for my age, stopped drinking when I was 29, stopped smoking at 14, a life of hard physical work and athletic activity, with good family genetics in my favour there's no reason I live as long as my mother...just have to watch out for trucks and buses...
