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You can do what you want. As for me this is what I do:
Eat well, no sugar or anything that has sugar. Lots of vegetables and fruits, cut down on any processed foods.
Drink water, maybe put a lemon slice to flavor it up. No soda or other sugary drinks.
No tobacco or products made from tobacco. Don't smoke anything.
No drinking alcohol of any kind.
No energy drinks. No coffee, no starbucks
No drugs.
7 to 8 hours of sleep a night.
Work into your 80's or longer. If you can't work or choose not to work, keep a schedule just like when you were working. Get up in the morning, have breakfast, stay busy during the day. have lunch when you normally would have lunch. Have a plan for how you will spend your time.
I see it as a waste of a great life when someone retires and sits around watching TV all day. I have a neighbor like that. She is 70 now and watches TV constantly. Eats constantly. She recently spent the last couple months in the hospital because of her health. Poor lifestyle choices brought her to the hospital.
Your neighbor sounds terribly depressed. Perhaps you can look into helping her out.
I've thought of those that don't smoke and don't drink but then think of a relative who didn't do either of those things and passed away. Then you have the Keith Richards type. Oh yea, and George Burns. Both of which have/had lived a lot longer than many would have expected given their penchant for smoking, drinking and some other drugs.
Dan Buettner has pretty much decoded what it takes for whole populations to live a long life. The interesting thing he found out was that most long lived populations didn't really know what the key to long life was, either. They just lived naturally in a way that led to long life without thinking about it. It included things such as:
--A natural, plant based diet that didn't include sugar or other processed foods.
--Exercise, not as a separate activity, but as a normal way of being. i.e. They lived in "floor cultures" where you got up and down 25X a day. Or they lived in 3 story houses where you went up and down the stairs a lot. Houses were de-convenienced. i.e. No electric egg beaters...they mixed things with wooden spoons. No automatic garage door opener, they opened the door by hand. Driving your car everywhere was not the norm. Instead, walking or biking places was. Or they were like the 7th Day Adventists, where nature walks are essentially part of the religion.
--Regular spiritual practice of some sort.
--Strong family/community bonds.
The hard part is the implementation because so much of how are lives are set up in the U.S. work against a healthy lifestyle.
He's working on that too with his Blue Zones cities. Some success in places like Albert Lea, MN:
Proven by whom and where; what medical journals? We are human beings. Having a low metabolism doesn't necessarily slow the aging process, but can be associated with disease, as in hypothyroidism.
I eat a lot of fruit, tons of sugar but I’m loosing weight. Lowest weight in almost 10 years. They are not packed as dense as Snickers, plus there’s fiber.
Fruit has tons of sugar, I think an apple has a much sugar as a Snickers Bar. And yes, it's all the same sugar.
I am always surprised that people, particularly people who are into healthful eating, keep talking about fruit. It should be at the top of the food pyramid. Eat little to none of it. Loaded with sugar. A real gut-bomb as far as calories vs nutrition. Does it have good stuff in it? Sure! So does constantly maligned meat and saturated fat, and even grains. Whatever fruit has you can get eating other things.
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