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Originally Posted by Michael G.
Why is every food group (listed below) so bad in our senior years when we've been eating them all our lives? 
Don't preach to me why you think they're bad now, preach to me why they haven't killed most of us yet.  
Lunch meat,
Pizza,
White bread,
White rice,
Soda,
Microwave popcorn,
Can soup,
Breakfast Cereal,
Fruit in a Can,
Coffee creamer.  |
I didn’t grow up drinking soda (born 1961) - it was a rare treat, usually after we had been “good” while Mom grocery shopped, she would buy us a Coca Cola or Orange drink in the bottles from the Coke machine.
I did grow up on white rice, white bread, lunch meat (bologna - probably the cheapest), breakfast cereal (sometimes), and can soup.
There was no microwave popcorn when I was a kid because there was no microwave. My mother cooked popcorn on the stovetop for us and it’s still my favorite way to eat it. I don’t care for the bags of microwave popcorn. And no coffee creamer for me because I didn’t drink coffee until my 30s.
Why hasn’t it killed us? Drugs, I suppose, better medicine. And activity. We were outside all day every day as kids. Even in high school, there was sports and marching band. And, we didn’t snack “back then” like we/they do today. There was no snack time in school. You ate before school and then lunch, and a snack when you got home. If you had practice after school, you might not get home until dinnertime. That’s a long time without food by today’s standards.
But, I don’t eat many of the things on your list. Why? Am I afraid it will kill me. Goodness no, but it’s certainly not going to add quality to my life.