What does my 80 year old father do to stay healthy?
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What does my 80 year old father do to stay healthy?
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#2This is inspiring. I think tonight I'll go for a bike ride instead of drinking and playing video games.
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#3This is inspiring. I think tonight I'll go for a bike ride instead of drinking and playing video games.
Do you enjoy bike riding?
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#4This is inspiring. I think tonight I'll go for a bike ride instead of drinking and playing video games.
One data point isn't that useful.
> At age 111, America's oldest veteran is still smoking cigars, drinking whiskey and loving life
> Richard Overton smokes 12 cigars a day, eats grits for breakfast and spends his days on the front porch of his Austin home.
https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/2017/06/02/at-...
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#6This is inspiring. I think tonight I'll go for a bike ride instead of drinking and playing video games.
One data point isn't that useful. > At age 111, America's oldest veteran is still smoking cigars, drinking whiskey and loving life > Richard Overton smokes 12 cigars a day, eats grits for breakfast and spends his days on the front porch of his Austin home. https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/2017/06/02/at-...
From a scientific perspective, no. But from a motivational perspective, it is.
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#7> Dad has no patience for those who say your healthspan is predetermined. At 80 he has no memory issues, no aches, no pains, no depression.
The author's father is apparently blessed with no genetic predisposition for memory/cognitive disorders, degenerative physical disease, etc...
Everybody is different. What works for the author's father may not work for everybody else. Take the above article with a grain of salt.
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#8This is inspiring. I think tonight I'll go for a bike ride instead of drinking and playing video games.
One data point isn't that useful. > At age 111, America's oldest veteran is still smoking cigars, drinking whiskey and loving life > Richard Overton smokes 12 cigars a day, eats grits for breakfast and spends his days on the front porch of his Austin home. https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/2017/06/02/at-...
You're clearly wrong as it relates to the post you're responding to. This one data point is going to get him to engage in a behavior that's healthier than the one he otherwise would've been engaged in, which is clearly good. Thus, the data point is useful!
Not everything his to be a double blind study showing significant effects to be useful.
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#9> Dad has no patience for those who say your healthspan is predetermined. At 80 he has no memory issues, no aches, no pains, no depression. The author's father is apparently blessed with no genetic predisposition for memory/cognitive disorders, degenerative physical disease, etc... Everybody is different. What works for the author's father may not work for everybody else. Take the above article with a grain of salt.
Yeah, that's covered very clearly in the article: "Dad’s been generous to share what he does each day with us all. But let me be clear: all of the standard caveats apply to his approach. This is NOT necessarily a prescription for a healthy life."
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#10Anecdotally, most of my family members who actively tried to stay healthy died relatively early (< 70 years). Those who didn't usually lived to be at least 85. My grandfather, who never did any type of sports, ate meat every day, who came home after worked and watched TV until bedtime and who drank 1-2 liters of cider per day after retirement died at 92 and was completely healthy up until a few hours before his death.