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What's funny is you can do all this preaching about eating healthy and looking down on those who eat this crap but can still get hit by astray bullet and die. The bullet don't care how healthy you eat.Originally Posted by BallRN23
What's funny is your reply. "Older" age doesn't necessarily mean living to a 100 year of age. You talk about eating at McDonalds and equate it to "living"....that's sad. How much have you strayed from nature that you describe eating crap that food scientists have worked on rather than what nature provides for us, and call that "living". Have you looked around and realized what is going on? People are dying of LIFESTYLE choices. Sure, we live in a much more toxic environment, but does that mean we should give up and knowingly do what is UNHEALTHY for us? It's not about delaying death, like I previously wrote. It's about living a quality life not riddled with heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, etc. You have clearly been taught that this is normal when it's NOT and you're telling me that I have been fed a fantasy as a kid?? You are vastly underestimating my knowledge/education with the tone of your reply.Originally Posted by CB94
It's funny that you actually EXPECT to live until old age. Who fed you that little fantasy as a kid? If people were EXPECTED to live until old age, there would be more old people than young people. But it's not even close. The truth is, 6 out of 10 people will probably die way before they ever saw it coming. Dying old is a fantasy that keeps us from worrying about impending doom and nothing more. It's just like how EVERY little kid has a "when I get rich" fantasy. They never say "if", do they? The reality of it is that the air you breathe is partially toxic and only contains about 20% oxygen at best. that means 80% of what you suck into your lungs 24/7/365 may not be beneficial to your body. The water you drink is slightly contaminated at all times. These bacteria are by default immune to the water treatments we use to sterilize our water (even lysol only kills 99.9%). These bacteria are multiplying and dividing and multiplying all over again all through your bottled water and taps. The soap you wash your body with is made from animal fat which clogs your pores and is bad for you skin. The very testosterone in your blood stream will cause more stress on your body than if you were a female, which WILL make you die sooner than if you were a female. I could go on... The point is, you can try to delay death as long as possible, but you won't defeat it. So the only evident purpose of life is to find your own balance between running from death and running towards living, and I define "living" and "existing" differently. I want to LIVE my life, not just exist until it's over. If that means having a McChicken one a month, well damn, let me be!Originally Posted by BallRN23
Yeah, except it neglects one important thing: quality of life into and through older age. If you define "living a little" as eating crap, then enjoy "living".
For your information, I use soap made from all natural ingredients without all the chemicals in regular soaps, and do as much as I can to provide myself of a healthy environment (physical, mental, food, etc.) conducive to better health. Health is not about a reductionistic paradigm in which you neglect all but one aspect of what is required for health. That is where my frustration lies with many people. And nobody said that you can't go to McDonalds. You obviously have the choice of eating there all day, every day, if you want.
