Kathryn:
>I always like to quote my grandfather who made it to nearly 90 in
>fine health on a diet of bacon so fat you could barely see a streak
>of pink in it from the pig at the bottom of the garden, home made
>white bread, butter, potatoes, more butter, and well (very well)
>boiled cabbage.
My father died this year at age 93. He relished fat, would ask to have the
fat trimmings from others' plates. "If you aren't going to eat that . . ."
But of course the automatic response is, "Well, yes, but if he had watched
his diet who knows how long he might have lived."
