Seven Important Foods for Seniors

Brookswood said:
You seem to be forgetting that most of us have a limited amount of time to explore new areas of information. In economics, there is something called Opportunity Cost. Assume I have saved up $500 over past month. If I buy a new couch with that $500, I have lost the opportunity to get a new $500 suit of clothes. Or to pay down my credit card bill by $500. Or rent a cottage for a long weekend at the beach. Time, like money is a limited asset for the vast majority of us. Our time is often more valuable than money especially as we age. So, we need a good reason to spend it on something such as clicking on links. Naked links give us little if any justification to spend our time on them. Therefore, we use the time studying a foreign language, playing with the grandkids, cooking a healthy meal, taking a refreshing nap, etc. I believe the opportunity cost for a naked links is just too high. OTOH, if the explanation says something like “This link lists 8 ways the nutrients in blueberries can help people avoid diabetes, toe nail fungus, and post nasal drip” then a person is better informed as to their choice of how to use their time. And they might choose to click on the link.
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Thanks, Brookswood! I’m quite familiar with opportunity cost. But let's not pretend this is a graduate seminar in economics. We're talking about clicking a link, or not. No one’s asking you to trade your retirement savings for it. And respectfully, if your time is so valuable, maybe typing up an entire cost-benefit analysis of clicking on a YouTube link isn’t the wisest investment either.

Bottom-line, you’re free to skip links, no one is forcing you to click on them. But trying to shame people for posting them unless they spoon-feed you a summary is ridiculous. After all, not every post has to meet some pre-approved “justification” metric before it’s allowed to exist. So, if you're interested, explore. If you're not, scroll on. But don't wrap your personal disinterest in a pseudo-intellectual bow and act like it's a universal standard. That’s not economics, that’s just excuse-making.
 

January said:
IMO that happened because of the tone of OP's responses
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Oh, January, you just couldn’t resist, could you? Always lurking with that “IMO” like it’s a halo.

Thanks, Blue Dragonfly. I agree that tone matters. But it’s also worth pointing out that “ganging up” often starts when a few regulars decide certain people shouldn’t challenge the groupthink. As for January, let’s be honest, it doesn’t take much for her to feel “insulted.” A differing viewpoint will do just fine. If you scroll back, you’ll see that my first comment was met with condescension, not curiosity. So if things got pointed later, maybe it’s because I was responding in kind.
 
I am not feeling insulted đŸ˜”â€đŸ’« - I am pointing out why the thread degenerated.

Perhaps you could consider whether you over react to posts and read too much intention into others replies - if you post a link or an article of anything for discussion, people can disagree with you.

Perhaps you won't consider your approach and will consider everyone else bitter, intellectually lazy etc - up to you. đŸ€·â€â™€ïž

Feel free to make another personal comment about me if you like. I wont respond.
 
January said:
I am not feeling insulted đŸ˜”â€đŸ’« - I am pointing out why the thread degenerated. Perhaps you could consider whether you over react to posts and read too much intention into others replies - if you post a link or an article of anything for discussion, people can disagree with you. Perhaps you won't consider your approach and will consider everyone else bitter, intellectually lazy etc - up to you. đŸ€·â€â™€ïž Feel free to make another personal comment about me if you like. I wont respond.
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Ah, the classic “I won’t respond”
 right after a full paragraph of response. That’s peak forum theatrics. You say you're not feeling insulted, yet you've written a mini-dissertation diagnosing my tone, my reactions, and my supposed reading habits. That’s quite a bit of unpaid psychoanalysis for someone "not responding."

You’re welcome to disagree with content, no one’s stopping you. But don’t pretend you’re above it all while still tossing barbs like "perhaps you won't consider your approach." That’s not discussion, that’s performance. Anyway, if you genuinely believed the thread degenerated because of my tone, then maybe you could have chosen not to escalate it
 again.

But hey, if this is your "non-response," I look forward to your silence.
 
PurplePower said:
“While there's no definitive list of superfoods, a study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov) identified 136 foods mentioned as "superfoods" across various sites. Additionally, some sources offer lists of 16, 26, or 37 superfoods, depending on their criteria.”
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Thank you, PurplePower, that’s a helpful clarification. You’re right that there’s no single official list, but the term "superfood" is still useful as shorthand for highlighting nutrient-dense options. It’s more about pointing people toward quality choices than laying down a strict rulebook.
 
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