Well, that’s a relief.

13 Replies to “Well, that’s a relief.”

1. 1. My 93lb grandmother lived (alone, after burying two husbands) to the age of 93. Despite her chronic high blood pressure and tissue-paper heart muscle. She ate her ancestral Swedish diet augmented by my grandfathers ancestral French diet.
   2. I eat like my grandmother (except for the Lima beans and liver). But I eat the French “paradox” diet, which is to say I eat just about EVERYTHING … as large a variety as I have time to plan-for. Yes, French food is my favorite … rich sauces, meat, butter, even escargot. Vegetables and/or salad every day … along with animal protein every day. And of course I “snack” on my great grandmothers Swedish pickled Herring, and feast on her pure butter spritz cookies. I eat artichokes year round.
   3. I don’t exercise as much as I should, but I am not quite sedentary.
   4. I am as feisty, opinionated, and at times as annoying as my grandmother who liked to “get up in everyone else’s business”.
   5. I also routinely “fast” … never longer than two days. Randomly … in response to how I feel, usually after overindulging … as a time to let my GI system “rest”
   6. I usually mock and sneer at the latest fad diet. But like all things … there is usually a kernel of truth in all of them … just taken too far.
   7. I live in a semi-rural suburban paradise (in my opinion). It is clean, quiet, and natural. No city life for me. No concrete, crowding, or pollution endemic to the “urban” jungle.
   My health is excellent.

2. Eat as my ancestors?!?! That would mean canabalism! Noooooo

3. my doggie the part mastiff supplements his diet with a source a very high quality protein.
   wasps.
   yep. loves to join me on the patio where he is fast enough to snatch them right out of the air. his technique consists of snatch, crunch, spit, snatch, CRUNCH, its dead, down the hatch.
   there is a time coming when men will beat each other unconscious for a stale sandwich.
   I practice for this day by occasionally consuming spoiled fruit; you know, the mushy brown stuff on the verge of going moldy.
   diet fad to blazes. I eat like a horse, er, pig because my metabolism was hard wired to burn it all off in body heat from being born in a wood frame house with no central heat and no insulation.
   hard times make for a hardass constitution. adversity provides its own remedy.
   regarding the proliferation of fructose, watch the documentary ‘the men who made us fat’.

4. Kale used to be grown to feed to animals

5. My Grandma was really fat so I’m confused. She did live until she was 93 though.

6. I eat a lot like Grandpa and Grandma.
   I’ve noticed lately that I’m beginning to look more and more like them.
   I better change diets, before I have to buy my Jeans at Winnipeg Tent and Awning.

7. I will be happy to skip the kale, it being an inedible weed.

8. I found that article to be racist.

9. Hahaha … really … what can I eat to REVERSE this aging ? Hasn’t the Google moon-shot group developed a cure for death and aging? They PROMISED that they would extend all our lives by dozens of years. Sadly, their experimental treatment of Nancy Pelosi … has hit a snag. You will live longer … but with a vacant stare and jumbled thoughts. Kill her now … the experiment has degenerated into cruelty.

10. Pop science garbage.
    My ancestors suffered with scurvy and near starvation in the spring – living in northeastern Newfoundland will do that.
    Some ancestral diets were better than others.

11. Anthropologist = bull excrement, not science. Google Dr. Jason Fung. Canadian doctor who lays out a detailed thesis on cancer being an endocrine disease. He shows how sugar and high-carb diets lead to obesity, diabetes type 2, and cancer.

12. Chuckle. Ditto here. My summer shirts shrunk a bit in the closet last winter. My better half had to move the button on a few pairs of trousers.
    Almost no prepared foods ever land on our table.

13. My mother is still going at 97 and uncooked vegetables were not and still are not part of her diet. Meat with every main meal. Fresh fruit in the form of apples, oranges, bananas, strawberries, nothing exotic. I am in my mid seventies and outside of enjoying the occasional salad I eat much the same diet. Of course genetics also come into play.