Does anyone wish they had eaten a few more cheeseburgers?

Seriously, one can have a healthy cheeseburger ... organic or natural meat, healthy bread and cheese, etc. Costs more and you'd have to make it yourself, but it would be good for you.

Unless you're talking about McDonald's food-like substances?
 

hearlady said:
The only thing I'm concerned with is feeling and being well while I am alive. So I do and eat for that purpose.
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Exactly how I feel about it.

My diet is 95% whole food plant based. More accurate: 90% this time of year. Some exercise, but not as much as would likely be good for me. I avoid conflict without being a pushover, stay up to date with the news without being obsessed by it, and generally avoid negativity when possible.

Good health, family, close friends (including a handful on this very forum) and independent living make life enjoyable.
 
Thanks Rose. But they were just quoting odds. I've come a long way and I've beaten the odds. I never took them too seriously, just enough to get to work. Will I reach 90? Probably not. But when the time comes I'll go down fighting, that Devil is going to need a powerful grip!
 
The trick is not only to eat hamburgers, but successfully sponge off someone else to pay for them, promising payment on a Tuesday that never comes. Wimpy from the vintage cartoon Popeye was a master of doing thisā€¦

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YEAH!!!!! I was thinking of Wimpy too- we never had hamburgers of cheese burgers when I was little, and my first cheese burger was at MD's when I was probably 17 and my girl friend had a car to get there, when McD's opened in our city. It was delicious!

I am having a hamburger for dinner today, maybe with cheese, but I am out of rolls and decided to boil some small white and red potatoes, and maybe make a scalloped parsnip casserole and a mushroom gravy for the burger. I think I thawed enough ground beef for two burgers-yum!
 
I rarely eat red meat but all this cheese burger talk makes me want to build a dynamite burger! Start with 1/2 lb ground top sirloin, rolled and flattened, already sizzling on the grill. Slice a big thick piece of purple onion, add slices of jalapeno, lay down a think slice of Swiss cheese. When ready slide burger onto a toasted brioche roll, with a generous swipe of mayonnaise. Before putting the lid on plant some spinach and arugula on top . šŸ˜‹
 
The Wimpy Bar first opened in the Uk in 1954.... so we'd all tasted burgers long before McDonalds got here in 1974....

Wimpy burgers were always far superior to Maccy's ...so it's sad we lost most of them...


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There was a little ice cream and grill place in a tiny village not far from work.

I remember the excellent smashburgers they made, nice and crispy around the edges.
 
OP seems to be suggesting that a key to living a long life, eating healthy, exercising staying fit, being emotionally stable, may not necessarily lead to a long and worthwhile life so why bother? And then he cherry picks cases that fit that result.

Well that is sometimes true while it is also true those supposed negative behaviors have in many cases led to premature health and emotional issues. Like with many variable human things, its a Bell Curve with some people for a list of facets like genetics inevitably results in rapid aging by middle age while others smoking and drinking their whole lives reach old ages.

But a wiser way to look at such statistics is to understand the majority at the mean top of the curve will be affected by healthy lifestyles resulting in not only longer lives but more capable and enjoyable lives once they reach senior years. And today there is plenty of science based evidence to support more likely negative health if one say smokes cigarettes or is obese. Others will by personal choice they are welcome to, living Fast, Dying young.
 
David777 said:
OP seems to be suggesting that a key to living a long life, eating healthy, exercising staying fit, being emotionally stable, may not necessarily lead to a long and worthwhile life so why bother? And then he cherry picks cases that fit that result.

Well that is sometimes true while it is also true those supposed negative behaviors have in many cases led to premature health and emotional issues. Like with many variable human things, its a Bell Curve with some people for a list of facets like genetics inevitably results in rapid aging by middle age while others smoking and drinking their whole lives reach old ages.

But a wiser way to look at such statistics is to understand the majority at the mean top of the curve will be affected by healthy lifestyles resulting in not only longer lives but more capable and enjoyable lives once they reach senior years. And today there is plenty of science based evidence to support more likely negative health if one say smokes cigarettes or is obese. Others will by personal choice they are welcome to, living Fast, Dying young.
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Well said, @David777. We can't know precisely how the lifestyle road not taken might have affected us. Anecdotally, some who lived fast and hard appear to have survived in reasonably good health, but the Keith Richards types are few and far between, which is why his name comes up in conversations like these.

Despite Keith's, ahem, stellar example, I have no regrets about stopped smoking at age 30, because many lifelong smokers my age (early 70s) are either dead or suffering the consequences, including plenty on this very forum. Do I wish for one more cigarette? Nope. I actually regret ever having started.

Re the cheeseburger. Why would I regret not eating an unhealthy food in my past? Once food is past my mouth, the pleasure is gone and my body is either fortified or required to start doing damage control from whatever I've ingested.
I'm more apt to regret poorer past choices than wiser ones.
 

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