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Originally Posted by dirk digler
What do you consider a healthy lifestyle? When you are get older you don't feel like doing a whole lot. Most people in assisted living facilities like the one my dad stayed in their entire exercise was going from the recliner or bed to the dining room table and back. Then go to sleep while watching TV.
I will say this, there is one older\elderly person that lead a healthy lifestyle and that was my mom. She was a small lady, maybe weighed 110 lbs and she walked 2-3 miles a day and ate great. But she ended up with Parkinson's and died at 73 so she wasn't entirely "healthy"
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Yeah that’s kind of the rub. You never quite know. My paternal grampa lived until he was 94 and was mentally sharp as a tack until the end. He could move around fine(for a 94 year old)but he hadn’t done shit for exercise for decades, ate Kit Kat and Hershey’s bars all day, drank Vodka all day, and had a belly that made Santa jealous. But was fine until 94! WTF? That’s why I try to balance and be relatively healthy-ish without becoming one of those people that only eats Kale and spends 5 hours per day working out. It’s just not worth it to me.