My grandparents lived on most of these “bad” foods (fatty meat, processed meats, sugary foods, fried foods, etc.), yet they all lived into their 80s and 90s. My grandmothers, who died at 95 and 96, had eggs and bacon/sausage every single morning along with both grandfathers. Almost every dinner contained fried meat or potatoes, often cooked with lard. The fat on the porkchop was the best part! Their homes never lacked for sugary pies, cakes and cookies. My grandfathers (82, 85) would have lived longer, but both were done in by smoking-related problems.
My Mother in law will be 95 in 5 days. She drinks Ensure 4-6 bottles per day. Eats packaged oatmeal 8 times a month for breakfast, food for dinner 4-6 times a month, and never lunch. She walks, talks, and is able to shower and dress herself.
Before this phase in her life, she drank hard pops from afternoon to bedtime, until she had drank her husband to an early grave, then quit.
My grand parent’s drank like the Italians they were and smoked like chimneys too. Both grand fathers made it into their 90s and one grand mother was 99 when she died peacefully in her sleep my other is still alive at 96 and puts down sambuca on the daily. If you have longevity in your genetics that’s just the way it is. We all eat real butter, smoke, and eat cured meats what Italian wouldn’t. My uncle’s are in their 70 as is my father every one of them smokes cigars daily. If I make it to 90 like my grandfathers I’ll call it a good run.