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[quote=Anonymous]I have anecdotal input here, but it's very good anecdotal  stuff so humor me.

I am an ICU nurse and as such, I've taken care of several hundred people in their final year of life. Some are 54 but others are 93.  The pattern that I see over and over again is that the really-healthy-until-that-one-thing-that-made-me-not-healthy-at-age-91 patients ***do tend to have regimented eating.***  They roll in from the assisted living place with a UTI-turned-sepsis, and they're fundamentally healthy people with no co-morbidities so they _recover_ and they're eating/drinking again while still in the ICU awaiting a downgrade to the med/surge floor.

And damn if they aren't all careful about meal times and meal portions.  They study the hospital menu and deliberately select a well-rounded meal and ask me to confirm that the meal "will be there by 11, correct? Because that's when I generally have lunch."

You might say well, that's an old people thing, duh. And I would respond that haha, early bird special, but **what if these many many people grew to be SO OLD precisely becuase they were careful and deliberate and SENSIBLE about their food intake for the last 92 years?*** 
ie, the Cheetos-and-drive-thru crowd died in their home, of a stroke, at age 62. Or they were brought to my ICU after that stroke, obese with out of control diabetes, and they're not going to order a hospital tray with me because they're never going to get extubated.

That is the years-long pattern I have observed.

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