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To: SampleMan
A truly simple human diet is a loaded baked potato (butter, sour cream, salt, maybe cheese) a well marbled steak, and a side of brocolli...Yum!

Saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium: that diet would put me on two pills per day, one cholesterol-lowering and the other for hypertension. It would also dramatically increase my odds for a cardiac event. But that is just my makeup, and my desire for a long, healthy life.

33 posted on 05/14/2012 11:59:00 AM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: Kennard

It did indeed kill my grandfather, he might have made it to 96 if had eaten only shrubs.

I’m sorry that your health does not allow you to eat a normal diet, but that does not change what a normal diet is.

The only diet that has been scientifically proven to increase lifespan is a near starvation diet, but that isn’t the healthiest diet, nor one that many people would choose, even if assured of a 25% increase in lifespan.

Interesting how being healthy, living long, and enjoying life don’t coincide in diet. I think a normal omnivore diet provides the best balance of the three. All things in moderation (if you don’t have a medical condition that requires a special diet).


34 posted on 05/14/2012 12:16:25 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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