My father lived to be 94, smoked like a stove pipe, eat anything as long as it was dipped in chocolate. Had two eggs every morning, his coffee was legendary for it's strength, refused to eat margarine was a meat and potatoes type of guy. He loved onions (his health food), once had mother dice some up in his pancakes. Took an aspirin a day, nothing else, had low blood pressure, low collateral and outlived every doctor who told him to eat more healthy and give up smoking. If he hadn't fell and perforated his bowel he would probably still be watching his favorite basketball team lose.
He was raised on a farm, his mother made baking powder biscuits every day, made her delicious pies with lard and her favorite meat was thick sliced fresh bacon. She lived to 98. All his brothers (7) lived well into their 80's, 2 died of accidents, none had hardened arteries, heart disease or cancer. The one that died of weight problems was 89 when he passed at over 400 lbs. My mother also was farm raised and always had a tub of lard in the refrigerator for cooking and baking. Eggs, butter, coffee, lard, unsalted and real buttered popcorn are the new health foods, they even claim Cheese Whiz is healthy for you.
Maybe heredity, it's hard to argue with the reality. I've heard it said that the 20th century is killing America with pesticides and herbicides prevalent in our food chain. Products are chemically made for our consumption that is proven many years later to be harmful and unhealthy.
Many medications are agreeably life saving but many more are removed from the market because the cure is worse than the aliment. How many times do you see the TV, magazine advertising for this legal group or that group that want you to jump on the gravy train to sue the drug manufacturers for a drug you are taking or have taken that causes horrible side effects.
I don't know the answers but in my case I was mis-diagnosed with diabetes type II, put on Benicar (now they're being sued) and it tuned out to be anemia, once my count was normal my diabetes disappeared. Spent a year taking one Tylenol daily for pain from surgery and later because it was habit, then through blood tests they had me revert back to an aspirin a day because I was developing a liver condition caused by the well known ingredient in most pain reliever drugs on the market today. My count has returned to normal.
We don't eat margarine, we use coconut oil or butter to cook with and the only way I pop my nightly popcorn is in a brown paper bag, pour one tablespoon of melted real butter over it and leave the salt in the shaker. Prepackaged microwave popcorn will kill you,
