My yoga instructor’s mom was from the Mississippi delta. She ate fried fish and bacon her whole life.
When she was 80 the doctor told her she had to quit eating like that or she’d die. She tried for two weeks to eat like a California rabbit and gave up. She’d eat what she always had even if it killed her.
She lived to be 96.
I think if / when you get to 80 you earn the right to eat whatever you damn well please......after all at that age it’s not what you’re eating now that’s gonna hurt you if at all.....it’s what you ate for the last 60 years.
Doctors don’t know it all.