“Lose your ducktor’s address and phone number, and get healthy!”
His response floored me: “Stay away from doctors, and stay away from hospitals.”
He later explained it (I wasn’t going to let him get away with just walking away from that) in some detail. But, in the final analysis, his advice was:
“Get decent nutrition in balanced meals.
Get enough sleep.
Get a reasonable amount of moderate exercise.
Look both ways when crossing the street.
If you do that, you should live to be about 85.”
I said that sounded like something out of the Farmer’s Almanac. He said, “Yeah, that’s about right...but don’t tell the A.M.A., they won’t like it very much.”
He did mention that there is a place for hospitals - he recommended visiting one if you had your bone sticking out of your leg. :>)
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But how many have bones protruding from their limbs?
For the rest, staying away from the unsanitary conditions and poor advice found in hospitals is mandatory for long life.
My mother was a dietician and kitchen manager for a private “boutique” hospital that catered to the wealthy and powerful, and she made sure that nutrition was mission #1.
People did get healed there, and they didn’t do any surgery there either. Drug use was bare bones minimal partly due to the fact that many of the patients were there due to drug abuse. (legal drug abuse)
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