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Originally Posted by graciegirl
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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Yes, I see your point. But I would put less emphasis on the length of life and more emphasis on striving for near term quality of life. Then, if you get the quality, the length of life is something that will naturally follow. I don't know whether I'll live to 90, 95, 100 or 115. But I'm definitely enjoying the quality that I have now.
I have observed people who were lucky to live a long life but suffered terribly during the last 10 to 15 years. And often it was needless. And of course there are people who live short lives and suffer at the end with cancer etc..
I don't understand the reasoning behind not eating the best diet because a long life is not guaranteed.