How come the Windsors have such great health?
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Anonymous
| No stress. It’s why nuns live to be in their 90s also. No stress (and no men LOL). |
Anonymous
| Not all of them. QE2's dad did not live a long life which is why she became queen at such a young age. |
Anonymous
| $$$$$ and access to great health care. Not a big mystery OP |
Anonymous
They have inbred genes. They are healthy in spite of their genes because of the things people listed above. |
Anonymous
| money, attention to health, physical activity. Also working -- at least in the royal sense (engagements, public appearances). Studies show that work keeps people mentally sharp and that actually retiring to just enjoy yourself is not good for your health. This is true in my experience, I can think of older people in my life who are retired, not that old, and now seem to have a hard time just dealing with going grocery shopping. My FIL was able to work through most of 80s on a reduced schedule and he was pretty sharp through then, and when he retired, his mental faculties went downhill sharply, sadly. Your brain -- you use it or lose it. Working as a older royal (work that you can tailor to your own schedule) probably helps a lot. |
Anonymous
This, read the part about how many of them died of hemophilia before they stopped inbreeding. |
Anonymous
| I think the biggest factor is not worrying about mortgage/bills etc. They don't have to work for a living, that in itself is a HUGE stress factor for majority people. |
Anonymous
True, but I have a few ancestors who had long lives who lived at the same time as or overlapped with Victoria. These ancestors, though, were all very poor, some lived in cities in essentially squalid conditions (think Charles Dickens novels), some immigrated long distances, some did this more than once. I doubt that they had access to much in the way of health care. The women gave birth to a lot of children. They had hard lives and had nothing going for them, but still a number of them lived into their late 70s, 80s, and even 90s. So, I do think that genetics plays a big role in whether or not someone lives a long life, in addition to outside factors. |
Anonymous
Hemophilia has nothing to do with inbreeding. It is a genetic disease that is recessive on the x chromosome. If your mother is a carrier, male children have a 50% chance of having the disease. Women almost never get it, since they would need the disease on both x chromosomes. |
Anonymous
+100 and they aren't exactly limited to say 10 days sick leave each year and after missing 3 days of work from a nasty flu have to fill apply for fmla. |
Anonymous
And they get seen by private doctors immediately for that nasty flu or cold, which means much less chance of it turning into pneumonia or something. |
Anonymous
Windsor is a made up name to dissociate from the Germans. The name was Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Philip’s family is Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. Queen Elizabeth and prince Philip are cousins and inbreeding has passed along genetically rare things like hemophilia. |
Anonymous
Some of the biggest risk factors for dementia are: High blood pressure, diabetes, loneliness, old age (duh), and getting inadequate cardiovascular exercise. The type of money and privilege they have insulates you from almost all of that. |
Anonymous
| Why doesn't magic Johnson have aids/ how is he even still alive?? $$$$$$$$$$ |
Anonymous
| Gin and Marmite. |