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Nikkster

Generali wrote: »

Good health is simple:

- don't be fat
- eat loads of veggies and fruit
- don't drink too much
- exercise every day (a brisk walk is enough)
- don't smoke

Everything else is flim flam. If you do those then you'll add an extra 5-10 healthy years to your life. Other things might add a few weeks to life expectancy if that.

I wouldn't say it's as black and white as that, but the principles are sound - do all that and you increase your chances of adding an extra 5-10 healthy years.

I have some work to do in meeting the 5. Generally I manage about 3.5, at the moment I'm not even meeting that

Doozergirl

Wheezy wrote: »

Am I the only NP who abhors mushy peas then? :undecided

Absolutely not.

Nikkster

Sounds like mushy peas are the new mushooms!

Generali

Nikkster wrote: »

I wouldn't say it's as black and white as that, but the principles are sound - do all that and you increase your chances of adding an extra 5-10 healthy years.

I have some work to do in meeting the 5. Generally I manage about 3.5, at the moment I'm not even meeting that

Without wishing to bring disharmony to the nice people thread, that study I linked to seems pretty rigorous and comes up with some convincing arguments/conclusions.

Nikkster

Generali wrote: »

Without wishing to bring disharmony to the nice people thread, that study I linked to seems pretty rigorous and comes up with some convincing arguments/conclusions.

I don't have time to read through the paper properly at the moment but I have bookmarked it(I have a stack of others on the go...), but even doing all 5 of those is not a guarantee of anything. Sure, it increases, I'd guess greatly, your chances, but it isn't going to prevent everything.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've been up about 2 hours. When I looked out the window as I could hear something I saw it was the "noisy neighbours" thinking it was acceptable at 6am to be filling up the car and banging doors ... while speaking in loud voices to each other. Surely you creep around at 6am, respectfully.

Been looking at slow cooker recipes.... starving now.

And, of course, it's raining today.... not sure if that's still raining, or raining again. Same difference - it's a wet weekend.

I had that in the summer from my neighbour as they were off on holiday. We creep around if we have to leave early, they were slamming car doors, shouting at the kids and had the dog barking.

I was not an impressed cookie!

chewmylegoff

Wheezy wrote: »

I love fresh peas though...Pick a pod, crack it open...nom! nom! nom! (as Generali would say)
Boiled peas are okay, but not really fond of them.
Mushy peas....no.

What about mushy mushrooms?

SingleSue

Generali wrote: »

Well that's it then, I'm giving up water. There's no way I'm getting cancer again.

Did you see that study from Cardiff that kinda covers what I was saying about the 5 things you need to do to live a long healthy life (on average)?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131209181059.htm

Here is the actual study:


http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0081877


It's amazing really. I went over this with the Generalissimos and asked them to guess what the 5 healthy things were. Once I got them away from 'being happy' which was related to a previous conversation, they managed to guess all 5 (plus don't take drugs).

We all know what we should be doing but hand on heart I bet almost nobody can really claim to be doing this.

My Dad did 3 out of 5 but fell down on exercise and probably drank a little too much. Mum is the same.

I can only think of 1 person who honestly follows all these things. She's 92 and still delivers meals on wheels, often to people 20 or more years younger than her. She still drives "as long as I promise not to take any passengers" and had to be told by her doctor to stop climbing the fruit trees in her back yard to gather the harvest!

She eats a small piece of meat/fish with 3 veg twice a day and has toast with fruit for brekkie, never smoked, only drinks ice cold water (there are always 2 bottles in the fridge), takes the dog for 2 walks a day and is built like a whippet.

My nan was overweight, had a diet which was never particularly healthy and drank regularly, she never smoked though and did like to dance (she outdanced all my friends at my wedding when she was almost 87)

She lived to nearly 91 and only died because the hospital missed the needle in her foot going septic which eventually caused blood poisoning and ultimately, her death.

She went out to live life to the full after being told at age 14 that she would be dead before she was out of her teens due to a heart condition and just never stopped, massive character she was, always lived for the now and survived an almost direct hit on her house during the London bombings...that woman must have had nine lives!

SingleSue

Wheezy wrote: »

Am I the only NP who abhors mushy peas then? :undecided

Nope, I don't like peas of any description.

SingleSue

Nikkster wrote: »

I don't have time to read through the paper properly at the moment but I have bookmarked it(I have a stack of others on the go...), but even doing all 5 of those is not a guarantee of anything. Sure, it increases, I'd guess greatly, your chances, but it isn't going to prevent everything.

So true, a friend of mine was ultra healthy, never smoked, didn't drink, exercised regularly etc etc, she was dead at 36 from cancer.