11 May 2006, 04:20
billslegDo you think I'll live to be 80?

>> Do you think I'll live to be 80?
>>
>> I recently picked a new primary care physician. After two visits and
>> exhaustive lab tests, he said I was doing "fairly well" for my age.
>>
>> A little concerned about that comment, I couldn't resist asking him,
>> "Do you think I'll live to be 80?"
>>
>>
>> He asked, "Do you smoke tobacco or drink alcoholic beverages?"
>>
>> "Oh no," I replied. "I'm not doing drugs, either."
>>
>> Then he asked, "Do you eat rib-eye steaks and barbecued ribs?"
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>> I said, "No, my other doctor said that all red meat is very unhealthy!"
>>
>> "Do you spend a lot of time in the sun, like playing golf, sailing,
>> hiking,
>>
>> or bicycling?"
>>
>> " No, I don't," I said.
>>
>> He asked, "Do you gamble, drive fast cars, or have a lot of sex?"
>>
>> "No," I said. "I don't do any of those things."
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>> He looked at me and said, "Then why do you give a shit?"
11 May 2006, 08:25
jstevensI'll agree with that, if you can't have some fun just as well be dead. My grandmother ate red meat at every meal, two eggs, ham for breakfast, fried chickens in lard for lunch and we celebrated her 101st birthday in April. All her doctors are dead. She has been in a hospital once in 101 years.
Natural foods fellas. People have been eating real "butter" for 12,000 years.
Those hydrogenated margarine spreads and all this other chemical preservative crap has only been around the last few years (culturally speaking), and look what it's already doing to folks.
Take a tub of "butter product spread" and sit it outside. The insects won't eat the stuff. And it can sit in the sun for days and never spoil.
I'll take my chances with buttermilk, bacon, and eggs thank you.