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Originally Posted by Villages PL
I'm not sure that anyone said that it was cut and dried. What's been said is that you should do your best to live the very best lifestyle possible. The better one does at following good rules of nutrition, the more likely it is they will reduce their risk for degenerative diseases. No one ever said there would be a 100% guarantee of success. If someone is born with a heart defect, that's not a degenerative disease of aging and a healthy diet will obviously not cure it. And I don't believe anyone on this board ever said that it would.
Right, but what is the alternative? Eating unhealthy food? As I said above, we should try to follow the very best rules of nutrition to reduce our risk for developing degenerative diseases.
Some people may be born with birth defects for various reasons. Maybe the mother was lacking certain nutrients when she was pregnant. Maybe she smoked, drank alcohol or used drugs. So not everything is D.N.A.
Look at the ingredients of a store bought apple pie. Or presevatives in some meats. They are no less chemicals than some of the chemicals in pharmaceuticals. And fresh vegetables contain lots of good chemicals. I don't like drugs either but let's face it, chemicals are everywhere
Yes, good point. So all this stuff about being happy to solve all of our health problems is rubbish.
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My dad was born in 1899 to Italian immigrant parents.
I assure you his mom did not do drugs and neither did she smoke.
Wine, I would say yes to....as that was part of their culture.
Home made red wine. None of her other living children had heart defects. Just my dad and his twin brother who died at birth.
Actually, she had 16 pregnancies with several sets of twins.
Only seven of those pregnancies resulted in viable births.
They all lived to a ripe old age, including her, to age 95.
Her huband succumbed to influenza in 1915....leaving her a widow to raise the seven children plus three of her little brothers..........(after her own mom died in Italy).
I would say that although she ate a healthful peasant diet which today would be called the Meditteranean Diet (I remember eating at her home), her body was no doubt depleted from all those pregnancies.........
He outlived his "twin" by many years. Funny, but they named both boys the same name...........
The only ones who smoked cigars were the "uncles"..........they all lived to a ripe old age as well as their big sister.