Great Post!
Better not say that on FB....................
All good points. I would add one. Occasionally one would miss a meal or two because of work demands or lack of food or whatever. Intermediate fasting is a healer of the body and stomach. Our bodies were built for feast or famine. Today we only feast. This is why Type 2 diabetes is rampant today and rare then.
8) BECAUSE THEY DIED FROM FOOD ALLERGIES BEFORE THEY COULD BECOME GRANDPARENTS.
Keep in mind the person writing this is completely making this all up.
And also people died from life threatening allergies.
Anaphylaxis killed those who were that sensitive so they wouldn’t reach adulthood anyways.
As evidenced by the steady decline in life expectancy over the generations.
Premature babies also have much higher rates of survival. Missing that last month in the womb affects the immune system. In my grandparents era, my son and I would have died during his delivery. Food allergies are annoying, but a trade off I gladly accept.
Great Post!
Tough I’m sure.
Life expectancy for these grizzled old codgers?
Because they didn’t call them food allergies back then. Things were “too rich for me”, or “didn’t agree with me”, or if you were uncouth “gave me gas”.
I remember my grandparents and the hired hands they had working for them. Their diets were exactly what the “experts” say is killing us now and most lived into their 80s and 90s. One of my doctors told me about a study a doctor friend of his had ran. Took 3 sets of chickens and put them all on a high fat diet. Then put one group on no exercise, put one on moderate exercise and put one on hard labor. The group on hard labor outlived both other groups by a substantial margin.
Wow. This article describes my lifestyle almost to a T. Maybe that’s why I’m 65, have no health insurance, and am doing great. I live in allergy country and have no food allergies that I know of. And I love clearing and working on my 32 acres every chance I get.
I joke with people it’s because I have the constitution of a Buzzard because, as a kid, I used to impress my friends by eating dry dog food. :)
But I DO think there is something to this.
BTW, I’m on OMAD now and it’s changing my energy level and how I look at food. I love it.
OMAD - One Meal a Day
Immunizations yes. The theories are sound enough to at least space out the immunizations
Antibiotics in infants. That theory is very interesting. We avoid antibiotics but wisely and under care of physician.
Bone broth is way underrated in this country. I put the all clad slow cooker to use constantly. Cost effective too
Over-use of modern (stronger) antibiotics, beginning at an earlier age for every indication.
Ear infection, circa 1980: 10 days of Bactrim, 20 doses.
Ear infection, circa 2010: 4 doses of “Z-pak” over 48 hours.
This must have been written by a millennium, because my grandparents would have been behind a mule and plow—even as a kid—and not playing on ‘bikes and swing sets’.
And no, they had no allergies.
Interesting observations regardless.
More likely it was the fact that far more of us were breast fed, few were fed from formula.
Dumbest article, liberal screed. Claiming crap like our veggies today have less nutrients than 75 years ago is just plain retarded liberalism.
I started to get pollen allergy. Since I started having local honey in my tea the problem has gone away.
People don’t seem to consume much honey these days.
It worked out, the department reassigned me to take care of the MWD and monkeys and I began a 45 year profession as a veterinarian.
Baby boomers didn’t have food allergies but they didn’t follow any or most of these rules.
