the key to living a longer, healthier life
galaxy27
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eat right, exercise, don't do drugs, don't smoke, if you have to drink (i have to), do so in moderation, don't gamble (what, wait?).........so on and so forth.........AND watch this clip at least once a month. i've posted it before but i came to the conclusion that it needs its own thread. you simply can't replicate this type of natural synergy, and that's why this studio show is iconic. this was pure gold from these 4.
Chuck stuck Shaq with a hot poker. Shaq was legit pissed, but because everyone else lost their pop tarts, he had no choice but to soften up. Kenny fanned the flames the entire time. Ernie was shattered into small fragments. Chuck was chortling so hard that he cut the cheese at 1:45.
if you haven't seen this before, you're welcome. if you have and forgot about it, you're welcome too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y44DaWQH8-0
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They never disappoint. 😂
I had watched that video a few years ago. A lot of times these fights, arguments, etc, on various TV shows and such, are scripted and rehearsed. Because of course that gets attention, therefore more views, and more advertising revenue. But not this one. LOL
Excellent advice, and may I say as far as "eat right." Always choose organic, particularly with fruits and veggies. 😊
the key to living a longer, healthier life
All good suggestions but none of us can dodge genetics. I know people as young as 35 who have had strokes, slightly younger still who have had heart attacks and people of all ages who are struck with cancer. And I know other people in their late 70's early 80's who have smoked their entire lives and are healthy as the proverbial horse. One thing that I know is a real killer is stress.
If you have genetics on your side or against you then not much else matters. And don't get me started on accidents that are totally beyond our control. Life is a crap shot so I try to live right and make the most of every day because the next one isn't guaranteed.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," --- Benjamin Franklin
Pasted from AI Google - "a proper diet can help offset the risk of developing genetic health problems by influencing how your genes are expressed and by deactivating detrimental genes. While you cannot change your inherited genes, your diet can “switch on” or “switch off” certain genes, which means a genetic predisposition for a disease doesn't automatically mean you'll get it. A healthy lifestyle, including a good diet, is a key factor in whether a genetic predisposition leads to disease."
I agree with your point about genetics. However that being said, proper diet, can greatly help stop certain maladies from ever occurring. Especially cancer.
Fiber. And drink your water like it's Niagara Falls.
A friend of mine gave me this advice: think of life (i.e., exercise habits, eating habits, etc) as a 20 year rule. Anything you do in your 20s & 30s affects you in your 40s and 50s. Anything you do in your 40s and 50s affects you in you 60s and 70s.
@Maywood
those suggestions were ancillary to the main point of this thread, but i'm with you. there are no guarantees. but, there are innumerable life choices that can be made to put you in the best possible position to max out.
I thought there was an air show.
I have quietly been on a "health journey" this year. Very active in my youth, played all the sports except for football through school. continued with basketball until well into my 30's. always hiked, hunted stayed very active. when i hit my 40's, everything seemed to SLOW down. big time. less activity, more snacking (ok, lots more snacking) and I had put on considerable weight over the past 6 or 8 years.
It all came to a head in February when I had my yearly physical. I have never been on any medication at all other than over the counter tylenol etc. Blood pressures always fine, all of it. well, bloodwork came back and my A1C (sugar levels) came back at 8.9!!!!!!!! that is like solidly in insulin taking diabetes levels. normal levels would be around 5.0-5.6. I was floored. big time.
Doc thought Ozempic or the like or even insulin because my A1C was so high. I told him to give me some time and I would make the changes. He reluctantly agreed. It was funny, my mind went to some things I have heard @stevek mention about proper diet and exercise.
long story short, I have been living on a "dirty" Keto diet for the last 9 months. about 50g or less carbs/day with a 3 mile walk 5 or 6 times a week. I am down 90 pounds and when doc checked my A1C at the end of summer I was sitting at 5.4%! all simply with diet/exercise. I will admit, it was not easy at first. the first couple of months I would have tortured kittens for a reese cup, but by summer it had become routine.
feel the best i have in over 10 years!
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
That's great news and I'm happy for you. 👍
I do believe that well over 90% of various maladies can be either prevented or cured with proper diet. One proof of this is remote societies that consume only fresh fruits and veggies, and fish for their protein, rarely if almost never get cancer.
@stevek I have heard there is some sort of correlation between sugar intake and cancer. I hope I have not waited too long to change my diet...
at any rate, when I get the hankering for a bag of chips or some chocolate, I just have to think about how good my body/joints feel and that hankering goes right away!
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
great job @craig44 !
Sugar doesn't directly cause cancer, versus say nitrates in processed meat that directly causes cancer. Although excess sugar intake can weaken the body's overall immune system to fight off and kill cancer cells when it occurs.
Excess sugar can cause a condition known as a fatty liver, whereby it causes the liver to basically wear out prematurely, and if the liver wears our, we're dead. Excess sugar interferes with other organs as well.
All that being said, if you contract cancer, there are theories that sugar feeds tumorous cancer growth. You mentioned Keto. I have read that some when contracting cancer, have gone full Keto which means eliminating all sugar, trying to get your body into a state called autophagy. I believe that can work, and if I ever contracted cancer, which considering my healthy diet, I'll be very surprised if that ever happens, but if it did, I would do Keto until the cancer is eliminated along with employing other cancer treatment.
Some good news, once we begin a healthy diet, if our body is not too far gone, our body is remarkable at healing itself. In my opinion based on your posts, I don't think at all that you waited too long. 😊
That is very good information! I appreciate it. It was a tough transition, but now, 9 months in I really like it. I call my diet "dirty" Keto because a true Keto diet is 25 or less grams of carbs/day. I am at about 40 or 50. I have read that a "healthy" balanced diet consists of 130-150g carbs/day and the average american male is consuming north of 300g/day. before this year, I was definitely at 300 and most days well above that!!
I am glad I am treating my liver better now. I do not consume alcohol, so hopefully that will help. other than the cravings early on, the biggest problem with converting to Keto was the ummmm, regularity problems.... Doc said that because of my drastic drop in carb intake and that most of our fiber comes from carb rich foods, apparently I was not getting hardly any fiber in my diet and things were getting, well, bound up.... I am now taking fiber pills and things are better.
I sure hope that if I ever come down with cancer that the diet will help to some degree.
one of the very best benefits of Keto in my experience has been that my joints feel GREAT now that I am not consuming sugar. It literally feels like I have taken years off from my knees/hips. dont know if that is because of the weight drop or less sugar, but either way, it feels great!!
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Thank you!!
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Yea, a young body can handle being overweight relatively okay, but an older body simply cannot. There are numerous examples of this. Take a badly overweight comedy film star such as Chris Farley. In his SNL skits and films, he would prance around like a jumping bean. Next thing ya know he's dead at 33 years old. Of course drugs had a lot to do with that as well.
Yea, it can be tough giving up certain types of food that we formally loved. One of mine was BBQ potato chips. But those dam things are one of the worst foods out there, so I had to simply stop eating them.
With all the terrific info out there today on the internet, it is a bit puzzling to see all the overweight people out there. They must know the harsh effects that has, not only on the knees, hips, etc, but on the internal organs as well. But the problem is the patient goes to a doctor, and the doc prescribes pain killers and various "medicines" which overall actually makes the situation much worse.
I used to LOVE BBQ chips too. My wife will ask me why I cant just have a couple of handfuls and I tell her that I would rather not have any than just a few, because my food "impulse" is too strong. 2 handfuls would quickly become a whole bag. For me, I just had to go cold turkey. candy too.
as far as docs prescribing stuff, that is very true. thankfully my wife is a nurse in endoscopy, so she is involved in scopes, colonoscopies etc. when the docs mention Ozempic and other similar drugs you see advertised on tv for weight loss, she was able to steer me away from them (actually outright tell me no!)
GLP-1's work by causing gastroperisis, keeping food in your stomach for a long time and slowing digestion. its why you dont get hungry as often when using them. not good for you. and weight loss surgeries are even worse. very difficult for those folks to have routine scopes and other tests. but most docs will not share that info with patients.
I still have a lot to learn, but I do know that shortcuts are often not the best way...
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
since we're turning this into a PSA, here's my contribution: if you're at least 45, schedule a colonoscopy. terrible cancer with cases on the rise (hence the bar being lowered from 50 to 45), but it's preventable if you do your part. just had my 2nd one a couple of weeks ago. the prep work is a piece of cake, and so is the procedure itself. it'll be the best nap you've ever had. the worst part for me was being surrounded by 4 nurses in a paper-thin gown with half of my ass hanging out. thankfully one of them had a Niners bandana on and the one who administered the anesthesia was originally from Maryland and a big Redskins fan, so my attention was diverted by football chatter until my lights went out. which happened very quickly, by the way.
if they find nothing, you're good for a decade. if they find something innocuous, you're good for 5 years. if you don't have one and later on receive a surprise of the worst possible kind, it's on you
get er done
First one was early 2020, just before COVID shutdown happened. Good timing, 2 polyps removed both benign. Second one in early 2023, 3 polyps removed, one via endoscopy. Still clean. I also survived what was classified as a severe prostate infection, which took awhile and a lot of antibiotics to cure. Got another probe coming up in early 2026. Not excited really. The prep is ughhhhh! My wife did her first one last month and her prep experience was quite shitzy. Both in our 60s with full-time retirement in our sights. Doing our best for healthy living so hopefully we can enjoy some of it.
Never had a colonoscopy, and don't intend on getting one. Those invasive tests are never completely risk free. But I'm not against it either for anyone who wishes to do it.
My understanding of colon cancer is basically it is caused thru the polyps. But if the polyps never turn cancerous, then you're simply not going to get colon cancer.
The foods that trigger polyps into developing cancer, perhaps the worst are nitrates found in processed meat. I haven't consumed any of that chit in well over 25 years. Even before then, I was cutting back on it. So in my viewpoint if I'm not doing anything to cause cancer, why do invasive tests when the odds of me getting cancer, any type of cancer, might be close to zero.
The most important way to beat cancer is thru prevention. Which is exactly what I do thru healthy diet and lifestyle. Do I sometimes miss the BBQ potato chips, pizza with sausage topping, cheesesteaks, and all the rest? Yes, I sometimes do, especially when I'm in Whole Foods and they always have fresh baked pizza out there in the first aisle, which calls out at me like the Siren's Song to have a slice. It's only one slice, what's the big deal right?
Well, the problem is there's always that one unhealthy meal, that finally triggers something like colon cancer or other cancers. Just my luck, that one dam slice might be that which triggers cancer, and that thought keeps me away from it.