Are You More or Less Healthy Than Your Parents Were?

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SeaBreeze

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Both of my parents were pretty healthy, except in their old age they had some high blood pressure issues and both of them became diabetics. So far, if my health continues on the same path, I have to say that I'm healthier in my sixties than my mother and father were. Are you more or less healthy than your parents?
 

I don't think my health is better than my parents but my healthcare and the strategies to maintain my health are much better than my parents had access to, that tends to create the illusion that my health is better than theirs was. My concern is maintaining my mind if I become uber elderly, my parents were fortunate enough to die before that became an issue.
 

I think I am less healthy than my parents. I would have been fine except that I believed the government when they started preaching the no-fat/low-fat diet. The more of that kind of food I ate, the more weight I put on. I should not have listened to them! I was also tested for high cholesterol and took statins for years. I should never have taken those drugs! I now have muscle damage and my knees/legs and hand muscles are painful and probably full of arthritis. My father, at 92, can walk around better than I can at 62. I trusted the Doctors but I should have looked for alternatives then. Now I am afraid they will prescribe "TV drugs" (those crazy ones they advertise on television with death as a side effect) and I don't want to take them. Grandmother probably had better health advice - should have listened to her!
 
By the age of 71 which I am now, my mom was in very good health which I am also. My Dad had high blood pressure and was a diabetic both controlled well with medication and diet. I don't take any medications now and hope to continue,but who knows. When I hear of all the side affects of drugs I think I am better off.
 
My health is about the same. They were pretty healthy, and so am I.

Ruth, I agree about the side effects! Just listening to the commercials where they have to list all the possible side effects makes the cure sound worse than the disease! My favorite is when one of the side effects
is "death."
 
The health issues that both my parents had were probably due to being heavy smokers for most of their life. I've never smoked a day in my life, just never had the desire. That's not to say that I couldn't develop serious health issues as I continue to age, but so far I am much healthier than they were.
 
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