Most of the older Amish ladies are overweight. Once the men retire, they are, as well. They have many of the very same health problems everyone else does, including heart disease. They also shop in Walmart and eat loads of sugar and white flour. At a summer lunch table, we were served plain iceberg lettuce as a salad.
We live amongst them and they are also some of my husband’s
massage clients.
Thanks for the info. I don’t live near a community like that and my perception of them of course is distorted thru the media and other venues. My idea of some austere lifestyle with sprinkles of luddism is clearly wrong.