>Dave Smith
>
>Dave Erring wrote:
>
>> It isn't the cause of all illness. But consuming a lot of flesh
>> from animals that have been mistreated and pumped full of
>> chemicals and eat their dead brothers is not a real bright idea.
>>
>> Especially if you are sitting around on your fat butt all day.
>>
>> We should add fitness level too.
>>
>> Since you don't want to answer, I'll assume the following:
>>
>> 40 years of age.
>>
>> 5'10
>>
>> 250#
>>
>> You eat a a lot of animal products.
>>
>> At least a dozen trips to the doctor a year.
>>
>> Fitness level: 1 out of 10
>
>My father in law would fail your test. He used to get up in the morning and
>have two spoons full of yogurt, some cereal with fruit, 2 poached eggs with
>cheese and salt along with 2-3 slices of toast, each smeared with butter and
>honey. He went to restaurants for lunch and usually had red meat with gravy.
>He was a big meat eater. Whenever he served a roast he would have seconds,
>thirds, maybe a fourth helping. After his wife died his evening meal was
>reduced to peanut butter on crackers or cold cuts, and always a double
>martini.
>
>The last time I saw him stand on his head and chug a beer he was 86. That
>was about the same time I saw him run a half a city block to catch a
>streetcar. He rarely went to the doctor. He could still fit into his WW I
>army uniform, and he was quite fit and active until he died peacefully in his
>sleep a few weeks before his 95th birthday.
>
>My wife inherited her father's eating habits. She eats bacon and eggs for
>breakfast, or just hard boiled eggs and cheese if she is in a hurry. She goes
>through 1-2 dozen eggs per week, at least a pound of cheese, uses cream in
>her coffee (no substitutes). She uses a lot of butter on vegetables. She
>eats 2-3 times as much meat as I do, and especially likes red meats. While I
>cut off the fat from my meat, she not only eats all the fat on her meat but
>often eats the stuff that I cut off. She has no cholesterol problems. She
>avoids starch in all forms, and eats very little sugar. At age 59 she is
>5'7" and weighs 135, and people are always commenting on how great she looks.
>
>My grandmother almost always had bacon and eggs for breakfast. She had cream
>in her tea and smeared bread with butter. She had meat with every meal. She
>was never much overweight and died 2 weeks short of her 100th birthday after
>breaking a hip. She had survived a broken hip two years earlier.
>
>
>According to your misguided estimates, they would all have been 250 and
>frequent visitors to the doctor and died young.

Yup... can't rely on trends... my grandfather, (my father's father) never
retired, worked right up to his dying day at age 97. And no sedentary job, he
retired from the restaurant business to become a plumber, didn't drive, so
walked to each job, carrying all his tools/supplies on his back in huge burlap
sacks... I remember even in his eighties he'd sling a cast iron bath tub onto
his back, held with a rope around his waist, and carried it up three flights of
stairs. He must've weighed 220lbs, was about 6' 2", and ate like ten horses,
every meal was a banquet... calories was not a word in his vocabulary. After
work he'd sit on the front porch in his rocking chair watching the world pass
by (the man never seemed to have a care in the world, no worrier he), rocked in
his chair spooning down a tall class of good cavier washed down by a liter of
vodka, this every day fare while waiting to be called for dinner... oh, he
chain smoked Chesterfields. The little old ladies half his age passed by
muttering that man will drink himself to death, and so he did, at 97.

My mother's father was a roofer, but no ordinary roofer, he was a tall building
coppersmith, did the roof on the Chrysler building. His knees went in his late
sixties so he could no longer climb, but he lived until 86. His favorite daily
snack consisted mainly of tins of oil packed sardines with raw onions eaten
with entire huge loaves of Russian black bread slathered with butter, and tall
tea glasses filled to the brim with slivervitz or Old Overhall whiskey... this
before dinner.

I think their secret to long life was hard physical work and never stuffing
their emotions. So I decided to retire to a farm, and I always did tell it
like it is.




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