From: Asad Haider If health were simply a matter of not dying, then we could end the discussion with that, I suppose...
^^^^ Notice the "smile" next to my comment about everybody dying. That means it's a joke (smile) I also referred to life expectancy. Do you feel that living longer is in some sense healthier ? My parents and grandparents have all but one lived to their eighties. One to his nineties, one to her late 60's. There diets were and are not much different from what I describe below Myself, I'm not much overweight, in terms of what the doctors' charts say. I'm 6' 1" 195 to 200 lbs. Have been all my pre-middle, middle and late middle age life. I don't have a potbelly. My cholestoral is not too high. I eat pretty big. People comment on me as a big eater. I was a vegetarian for a little while when I was 29 and 30 , but most of my life I have eaten meat. I eat and drink candy, especially chocolate, mint, maple syrup, ice cream, cake, pie, soda pop, coffee, orange juice, beer, wine, vodka, hamburgers, hot dogs, potato chips, pizza, eggs, bacon, grits, bread , fish, potatoes, rice, beans, spaghetti, noodles, mushrooms, carrots, onions, apples, bananas, grapes, strawberries, broccoli, greens, lettuce, tomatoes, celery, salt, butter, pepper, garlic, olives, cheese, falafal, pineapples, tuna fish, salmon, peanut butter, jelly, nuts, barbecue, sweet potatoes, honey, ketsup, mustard, mayonaisse, pickles, et al. I did play a lot of baseball and basketball up until two years ago. I still run , jog, for exercise. Walk to work. I'm very rarely sick. I don't think I've been sick for about two years or more. I can't remember the last time I was sick, actually, i.e. with the flu. Flu is the worst sick I've ever been my whole life. That for not more than a week. I don't get colds anymore. That ended when I was about 40. I had some allergies that had mild cold like symptoms ( "hayfever") after I stopped getting colds, but those went away about , oh, ten years ago. I'm not saying I won't drop dead tomorrow, but I've already lived to late middle age, with no dread diseases. I know I will die of _something_. I'm resigned to that fact (smile). :>)/ :>( And when you're dead, you're done. Only death is immortal. Eat, drink and be merry , for tomorrow we die. But I ain't tryin' to die. So, how's my health ? On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:44 PM, c b <[email protected]> wrote: > The life expectancy of Americans is above average for the world. Can > their diets be that "unhealthy" ? > > And, everybody dies (smile). > > Charles > > > I think I'll cc James Heartfield with this post > > http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2009w40/date.htm _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
