Interesting.
What sort of junk food are you referring to?
When you have a heart condition, which she did and eventually died from, , you don’t eat anything salty or filled with saturated fat like butter and cheese. She and her husband usually ordered from nearby restaurants though they had a big beautiful kitchen they never used. My daughter, son-in-law and I couldn’t eat the horrible stuff they ordered so went to various stores to find food. Tried Aldi’s and disliked everything there. Hard to remember exactly what, that was four years ago. Fish from the Atlantic can be dangerously infected by organisms in the water, so only buy Alaskan salmon or Canadian west coast salmon. Canned food is loaded with salt unless you carefully buy “low salt” labels. And even those are too salty.
Certain veggies and fruits are sprayed with a lot of poisonous weed killers or fertilized with dangerous chemicals. Potatoes, for example, should be organic and many other fruits and veggies. Environmental Working Group tests fruits and veggies annually and puts out their Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists. ewg.org. I send them a few bucks and receive printouts of their list.
EWG tests water in American cities too. I don’t know about Texas, but here in Spokane, our tap water has 9 dangerous chemicals in it. They don’t even know we have lead in the pipes. I have refillable gallon water jugs, and three stores in our neighborhood have filtered water machines. My cat and I never drink unfiltered water or make coffee with it.
I have handed out that Clean Fifteen and Dirty Dozen list to several friends. The man in my ‘hood who has adorable grandchildren in town gave it to his daughter.
Maybe I should post it here when I have time.
Anyway, my sister and her husband, both with very high IQ’s, were total idiots about what they ate, didn’t know it affected their health. I’m 88, weigh 112, take one prescription drug, try to walk 30 minutes a day, go to Tai Chi classes three days a week to do bone-strengthening exercises. It pays to be a “health nut”.