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It’s all the prepared foods.

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So true. Think like a hunter-gatherer. If you could have obtained a food 10,000 years ago (ex. vegetables, fruit, meat) your body is designed to process it. If not (ex. Hostess Twinkies, pizza, Ring Ding Juniors), then it’s probably going to have too much refined sugar in it.”

After my primary doctor and my RN wife’s boss retired, I ended up with a former basket ball jock MD, who was a fanatic about using statins and a basic high carb starvation diet. I was in my early 70’s.

I told him my DNA role models parents and grandparents lived to their late 70’s or into their 80’s and didn’t starve themselves.

I asked him if he was the same weight as a starting forward on a major university. He said yes.

So I asked about his parents, and they lived until their 70’s and 80’s and had normal American diets.

He admitted that I was past the age of 70 where diet and statins might help.

The next question, “If I was a relative or good friend what would he tell me to do.”!

His reply was to never eat processed food or anything with long non occurring everyday names. Shop around the edges of the grocery store and never buy anything that is processed. Buy fresh seafood and beef/pork from the butcher shop in a couple of super markets.

His advice was to buy our produce from a local farmer family and never buy processed food. To discontinue my high carb diet and basically go on the paleo diet with fresh fruit and veggies at anytime of the day, when I was hungry.

My wife keeps a counter top loaded with fresh veggies and fruit. When we are hungry, we snack on what is on that counter. We never feel like we are dieting.

I lost my extra 10 #’s in about 4-5 weeks, and I have maintained that weight for years now.

My wife is the same weight, as she was when we got married 60 years ago this fall.

My favorite snacking food is a mix of roasted almonds and walnuts, my wife makes from what we buy at Costco.

After my primary doctor and my RN wife’s boss retired, I ended up with a former basket ball jock MD, who was a fanatic about using statins and a basic high carb starvation diet. I was in my early 70’s.

I gather you mean that this doctor was fanatic against the use of statins and a high carb diet.

Shop around the edges of the grocery store and never buy anything that is processed.

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Funny how all the natural stuff is on the perimeter and the processed and boxed stuff is up and down all the aisles. Done the same in all the grocery stores. Must be some efficiency thing or psychology thing.