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Ask HN: What to do to be healthy when old?

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Re: Ask HN: What to do to be healthy when old?

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Don't smoke, don't drink, do exercises regularly, try to keep learning and challenge your brain. Find one or more hobbies that relax you and good, honest friends who like you for who you are.

I agree with all this, except “don’t drink”. 2 drinks a week will very unlikely to lead you to you poor health in your 30s-50s, and likely well beyond that.

Re: Ask HN: What to do to be healthy when old?

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There is a huge amount riding on the invisible hand you have already been dealt. All you can do is to some extent improve or worsen the outcome. Some old people take credit for their survival and fitness but the dead ones who did the same don't speak.

Re: Ask HN: What to do to be healthy when old?

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Eat a lot of veggies Avoid overprocessed and junk food (yes, you know what is junk and what isn't) No smoking. No harmful drugs. Low to no booze. Exercise regularly. Avoid social media - mental and physical health are related

how do you avoid social media if you use it for your business?

Re: Ask HN: What to do to be healthy when old?

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post #7

Eat a lot of veggies Avoid overprocessed and junk food (yes, you know what is junk and what isn't) No smoking. No harmful drugs. Low to no booze. Exercise regularly. Avoid social media - mental and physical health are related

how do you avoid social media if you use it for your business?

Constrain your use to your business needs. I technically am on social media but inactive (unless we count HN, not sure I do). If I'm dealing with businesses that insist on using, say, FB then I go to their FB page and that's it. I don't view other people's feeds, I rarely look at my own FB wall page.

If you're posting to drum up business, then just post to drum up business. Stay out of the personal and political stuff which is mostly just drama and noise. Interact only with reasonable responses to your own posts and note when people are just trying to stir something up or troll, ignore them.

Re: Ask HN: What to do to be healthy when old?

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Eat a lot of veggies Avoid overprocessed and junk food (yes, you know what is junk and what isn't) No smoking. No harmful drugs. Low to no booze. Exercise regularly. Avoid social media - mental and physical health are related

how do you avoid social media if you use it for your business?

You don't.

Either you hire someone to manage your Social Media or decide specific rules of usage. Login only at work hours, for such amount of time to do X and nothing else. Try to have a blank account, empty of anything outside of work related, for example blank Facebook account which hosts the business page/group/whatever.

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