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Originally Posted by Villages PL
……..And another part of the reason might be because people are being propped up with medical interventions, which doesn't always make for a healthy life expectancy.
There have been many large controlled scientific studies but it's not easy to discuss them all here, especially due to the fact that no one seems interested enough to actually read them. If people would read them, then they could be discussed. The China Study, The Okinawa Program, The Seventh Day Adventist study, The Mediterranean Diet study, The ongoing AARP Health Study and The Nurses Health Study.
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I don't think we need large scientific studies to know how to eat, when I've watched all 4 of my grandparents and each of their 9+ siblings live on meat, potatoes, gravy made from drippings, bacon and eggs fried in the fat, and whole milk live till they were over 80 and none had heart disease or cancer, except one who smoked like a chimney and clearly died of self-induced lung cancer, COPD and emphysema. My parents, ages 87 and 85 are alive and healthy on that same diet but making conscious efforts to maintain a healthy weight, neither too fat nor too skinny.
At the same time, other families living on the same diet had clearcut tendencies of earlier death due to heart disease and cancers. Genetics cannot be ignored. One thing I notice in the other families in my hometown is that many married people from the same nation/provincial areas they or their parents came from, maybe concentrating the recessive genes. My grandparents and great grandparents married immigrants from different nations (Germany, Scandinavia, Great Britain, etc.) and maybe the gene mixture helped.