Barrettscv 

Some common sense advice: Fiftysomething Diet: Foods to Fuel Your Boomer Body | Next Avenue

chasm54

Ditch the multivitamins. The recent reviews of the data seem to suggest that those taking supplements actually have shorter lives than those who don't.

donheff

I'm doing all that. I even take the multivitamins since I don't eat many vegetables.

berner

Japanese have the lowest mortality due to heart problems in the world so it is likely that a diet high in omega 3 fatty acids, as from fish, would account for that. Also with very low mortality rates are the French, even with heavy sauces. Evidently, foie gra has unsuspected rejuvenating properties.

bikemig 

I'm hoping it's the red wine,

jcb3

My wife was marveling how the body tells you to begin to eat healthy and exercise more after 50 (weight gain, muscle loss, irregularity, etc.)

I simply thought it unfortunate.



my cardiologist remarked that eating healthier does not make you live longer, it just seems longer...

Barrettscv 

Southern Italians also do well due to diet and an active lifestyle. Shopping here and living less than a kilometer from the sea can't hurt;

berner

Peter Mayle, who has written several books about Provence, where he has lived for years, believes the long lives people have in that region are due to an unhurried life style, obsessive insistence of fresh ingredients of their food (this means locally grown) and of course, the restorative effects of a bottle of red wine at the mid-day meal should not be underestimated.

RideMyWheel

Just finished lunch 10 minutes ago. Pulled pork sandwich with slaw on top (of course!) I got a jumbo. Washed it down with a REAL Coke, too.



But I've been a good boy this week...

berner

RideMyWheel it has been good having you here on the forum. Know I will be thinking of you this evening as I hoist my Cuba Libre.

Yeah, Barrettsvc, those Italians also know how to live. Actually, old Rome, I believe, is where France first learned about this.

MikeD1

That sandwich sounds petty darn good! I think slaw is great stuff and I rarely drink soda, but if I do make it High Test everytime! That diet stuff is crap and worse for you than the real think IMHO

mprelaw

Ah, the wonderful fifties, when you could make any baseless claim there was about almost anything. Did you know that more doctors smoke Camels than any other brand?

RideMyWheel

Thx, berner, While you're doing that, I'll be riding my wheel tonight if the wind dies down. Viva!

I think you're right about the diet stuff, MikeD1. Aspartame turns into wood (methyl) alcohol in your system, then is converted to formaldehyde. That's why I went back to The Real Thing (tm) last year. Unfortunately, that's about the last vice I have left to give up. The BBQ is a once a month thing.

And, hey! I've lost almost 3 inches off my waistline since May! Only eight pounds, though. My massive legs (a.k.a. The Pistons) probably gained five pounds each.

Biker395 

If that were true, I'd be 50% fruit.

Uh ...

on the path

Any of you folks talking about real coke hopefully know that the stuff made in Mexico is actually the real coke..

OldsCOOL

Too late. I've taken them daily since I was 6.

Since this is a Boomer study, shouldnt they have included ***AHEM*** "brownies"??

genec

I'd be a vegetable. I love broccoli and brussels sprouts. I know where to get the best veggies in town.

I have not had any meat (yes, that means no chicken, no pork, no beef, no fish... funny how folks say "does that mean...") in over 5 years. Yet I am told I have to eat more fruit and veggies. How exactly does that work?

I guess I have to stop stir frying my veggies in a tablespoon of oil and just steam everything now.

nuke_diver

Then I'm a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich...I eat one about 5 times a week, along with a yogurt and 2 bananas

It's the secret to not gaining weight for the last 35 years

OldTryGuy

I know a bunch of old timers who eat crap, look like what they eat and are happy to be in their 80's and 90's. So what's the point**********

fietsbob

My father , Likely Quoting WC Fields would say "I'll Eat anything , but I'm Very Fond of Children"..

Barrettscv 

Yes, Paris was established by the Romans.

Ahhh.. California

Biker395 

Oh yes ... I forgot the nuts.

Barrettscv 

The other 50%...

...This thread is making me hungry...

rydabent

Hfmmm-------------Im 75 never been hospitalized or had an operation, ride 30 miles every other day, and have taken multivitamins and minerals most of my life!

John E

My ophthalmologist, who is in his upper 60s, claims to have seen a dramatic decrease over the years in the rates of macular degeneration and related diseases, and he attributes this to the popular use of antioxidant vitamin supplements.

I take a sublingual B12 tablet every day, as well as occasional zinc, lutein, C, and E supplements.

My wife and I have been mostly vegetarian for more than 40 years. At home we avoid white sugar, white flour, etc., and I completely avoid soda pop and donuts. Breakfast is a grapefruit, one or two other pieces of fruit, lentil sprouts and/or tofu, and steel cut oats topped with raw wheat germ and ground flax seed -- I get my variety at other meals, where common protein sources include garbanzos and other legumes. At "Beatles Age" ("will you still feed me, when I'm 64"), my wife and I seem to be doing well.