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Originally Posted by omega50
Nutrition advice seems to swing more than the price of oil.
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I know several people, old timers who, if dietary advice was worth anything, they would have been dead for many years yet they are still alive, or just recently deceased.
One example. Granny we called her. She went to her rewards a few summers ago.
Her favorite food were dried Moose meat dipped in pure lard, like one would dip a potato chip.
Plus she drank a mickey of whiskey every day for at least the forty plus years I knew her and she smoked a pack of du MAURIER every day for that whole time as well, and it did eventually kill her. At the age of 104.
Myself, I eat what I like, a lot of fried foods, bacon, as much as I can get. Lots of Macaroni, and as much wild food, berries, mushrooms meat as I can get.
My health is not great. I'm told that my lungs are shot, but it appears to me that this is the result of a misdiagnosis plus years of breathing welding fumes, paint fumes and grain dust ext.
My back gives me grief, an old injury. That's what you get when a 16 year old skinny kid takes a job alongside grown up alcoholics of a different skin color. Long story.
The upshot is that with the lung issues and the bad back I don't get much exercise. Never did, not since I graduated anyway.
And I have never ever made any effort to eat healthy foods, or should I say, foods recommended as healthy.
Don't get me wrong, I lead an active life. I hunt and used to trap, did a lot of walking and heavy lifting. But never for exercise.
For my entire working career I was employed in labor intensive fields. Even my years of driving big rigs involved a lot of labor. Loading and unloading, chaining down loads, tarping loads, truck repairs, ext.
All the exercise I got was in the way of doing a job or pursuing my choice of recreation.
Now I am sixty one years old, nearly sixty two. I can still work and earn a living. I am not in a wheal chair or dependent on a cocktail of pharmaceuticals. And I still smoke, wish I didn't but it is what it is.
Mean while, all around me people I know are meeting their end, a good many long before they reached middle age. Most did not smoke or drink, several followed a regular exercise routine, some were very careful about what they eat and followed the latest recommended dietary advice.
My oldest son, my kid brother and bestest friend in the whole world, three of my sisters, neighbors friends, co-workers, all have gone to their rewards yet I remain, and in reasonably good health for my age I think.
So what is the real truth? Is diet really that important, or is it only that important if we live a sedentary life style. Or is it the chemical brew that many of our foods have become?
Honestly, I think the key factors are ones individual physiology and ones exposure to man made chemicals, plus heaping portion of luck of the draw.
I have another source of confidence many refuse to consider. It works for me and that's their right.
One thing I do know. Science is a good thing but it is not the only answer and often it is not even the right answer. Remember, there was a time when the best minds in the world believed that the world was flat.
More recently there was Formaldehyde, thalidomide, DDT and host of other things that science said was safe that we know now was not safe in any sense of the word.
And keep in mind, at this very moment, our government is using Strychnine to poison animals. Never mind the motivation, the tool, strychnine, comes straight from the bowls of hell. It
IS the nuclear bomb of the poison world.
Hmmmmm
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