"Despite"? DESPITE? Maybe he lived so long BECAUSE of sausage and waffles.
Kielbasa! Sto lat!
To: don-o; Tax-chick; neverdem
2 posted on
09/01/2006 5:26:16 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(Sto lat!)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Maybe people died younger in the recent past, because they had poor nutrition. My G'ma lived to 96, and had bacon and eggs with coffee nearly every morning.
4 posted on
09/01/2006 5:30:29 PM PDT by
jeremiah
(Our military are not "fodder", but fathers and mothers and sons and daughters.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Burgess Meredith in Grumpier Old Men:
When I get ouf of bed I smoke a cigarette, know what I eat for breakfast? Bacon!!! Know what I have for lunch? Bacon, a whole damn plate!!! For my mid-day snack, I have bacon!!! Than I drink my dinner..."
5 posted on
09/01/2006 5:40:26 PM PDT by
stm
(Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)
To: Mrs. Don-o
6 posted on
09/01/2006 5:49:48 PM PDT by
Revel
To: Mrs. Don-o
Eating well is a good diet to prescribe for most all people. However, the biggest killer is stress. Obviously, this man had not only good genes, but some life habits that worked in positive conjunct with his genes. And didn't go into "overkill" on the whole "you are living so be very afraid" apparatus so common in this day and age.
7 posted on
09/01/2006 5:50:27 PM PDT by
Alia
To: Mrs. Don-o; Petronski
He died from amylodosis, abnormal protein buildup so maybe the sausages weren't such a good idea. More than that, I'm almost SURE those sausages were home made with hogs he killed himself and the waffles were made from scratch. Not today. Not this processed, artifical JUNK... have a little pork with your GMO soy, bull testes and God know whatelse for filler. Plus, it pays to be happy and stress free. You don't live to be 112 sitting on a fat lard butt watching television that's fer sure.
8 posted on
09/01/2006 5:54:01 PM PDT by
cyborg
(No I don't miss the single life at all.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
9 posted on
09/01/2006 5:56:46 PM PDT by
cyborg
(No I don't miss the single life at all.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
It's the broads. Babes keep you young.
To: Mrs. Don-o
They used lumber salvaged from dismantled buildings to build their house.
Probably exposed to all sorts of wood preservatives that have
plenty of nasty stuff; some of them carcinogenic.
During Second World War, Johnson worked at the Kaiser shipyard in Richmond...
Probably inhaled more airborne asbestos from the building of
Liberty ships than the average American.
And plenty of foul fumes of gases from arc welding and diesel fumes.
...and later managed the heating plant at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland.
More asbestos jackets around boilers and plenty of nasty liquids for
flushing/passivating pipes.
Good thing he didn't get exposed to much Alar in apples, thanks
to expert toxicologists like Merle Steep.
(end sarcasm)
But seriously, this guy is actually an enviro-wackos worst nightmare.
By their accounts he should have been dead by at least 60 or 70.
14 posted on
09/01/2006 6:11:16 PM PDT by
VOA
To: Mrs. Don-o
"But we often find it is in the genes rather than lifestyle." I've told my daughter repeatedly that, when it comes to health and longevity, to choose her parents wisely.
To: Mrs. Don-o
Sausage and waffles everyday??
And a long life??
I just found my new diet.
19 posted on
09/01/2006 6:36:59 PM PDT by
markoman
(The man with the rubber glove was....surprisingly gentle.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Interesting...the health-conscious food-Nazis of The Los Angeles Times
omit any mention of the sausages and waffles!
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-johnson1sep01,0,7906879.story?coll=la-story-footer
I go with two other factors that might account for his longevity:
1. He was a true American "mutt". He might have been the recipient of what
geneticists call "hybrid vigor".
2. No kids! My parents always said I (and my brother) would be the
death of them (but they are still kickin' in their 70s)
20 posted on
09/01/2006 6:38:49 PM PDT by
VOA
To: Mrs. Don-o
It reminds me of another post on here. Many of us came from a generation where our mothers smoked and drank. We rode in the front seat of cars without helmets, babyseats and kevlar vests, we played outside once our schoolwork was done because perverts were dealt with harshly and not allowed to go free. We rode bikes without wearing headgear. We got a handful of fireworks on the 4th of July with the advice not to blow off our fingers (I still have all ten!) We were shown, and used guns before our teen years (under supervision and with careful instruction from a male authority figure). We cleaned out the rest of the cookie doe even though it contained raw eggs (never got sick).
God, if the kids today could go back and in time and see what this country used to be like; they would come back and not vote out the socialists--they would march on Washington and hang the b*****ds off of light polls.
22 posted on
09/01/2006 7:18:57 PM PDT by
samm1148
To: Mrs. Don-o
Sausage and waffles? Well, there's a good chance I'll live a long time...
My grandpa lived into his 90's, and he ate raw eggs and drank Stroh's Bohemian beer.
23 posted on
09/01/2006 7:41:14 PM PDT by
04-Bravo
To: Mrs. Don-o
Shame he didn't have children to pass on those genes... wife lived to 92...
25 posted on
09/01/2006 7:53:11 PM PDT by
stands2reason
(ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
To: Mrs. Don-o
This article is lacking in many details. I'm sure sausage and waffles were not the ONLY thing this guy ate.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that he smoked occasionally and took a belt of whiskey on a regular basis. But the lamestream media would never report that if he did.
I bet he walked every day too and stayed away from most other processed junk foods like Doritos, Cheez-Its and Little Debbie Snack Cakes.
32 posted on
09/03/2006 6:39:01 AM PDT by
SamAdams76
(This Program is Morally Good)
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