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Old 08-24-2012, 04:43 PM
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In a recent discussion, which you took part in, there were one or two comments stating that "it's all genetic", and no one replied to it. No one challenged it. So I wondered if perhaps everyone was in agreement with it.
Rather than make it something between me and the poster(s) I thought I would open it up to all those who might be interested.
You know Villages Pl. Most people as old as we are realize that a persons choices can alter the length of their lives. Most of us know that exercise and diet and being in a happy state can lengthen most lives and avoiding smoking and avoiding dangerous activities can help and having fun and getting enough sleep and enjoying activities that increase our heart rate and move our bodies around help too, to make us generally healthier and possibly allow us to live longer.

How long would that be? How much longer would we live if we ate your diet? How much longer would you live if you saw a doctor every three months and did everything he said to do? How much longer would we live if we lived in an optimal situation and didn't have money issues or kids who worried us?

Who really knows?
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