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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Perhaps no one knows for sure how many made it. But just in my family alone there were several. All of my grandparents were born in the 1870s and all of them lived very long lives. One grandmother lived to 89 and my grandfather lived to 97. The others were close behind. I had a great aunt who lived to 100. And there was another ancestor (listed in my family tree that was researched by my cousin's wife) of a man who was born in 1850 and died in 1956. How about that!! He lived to 106 years old.
One reason why your charts show such short lives is because there was a high rate of infant mortality. But if you didn't die as an infant or during the first 5 years, and didn't die from yellow fever etc, your chances were pretty good. From my understanding, all of my ancestors who were born in Europe had gardens. And they mostly ate natural whole foods rather than processed. They didn't have access to read meat either.
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I can echo just about everything you've said. If they survived infancy, etc. they could very well live a long long life. They ate simply, mostly things they grew themselves.....things they prepared "from scratch".
Mine ate the true "Mediterranean Diet" even before it became popular.