Almost nothing processed, everything made from scratch. Minimal desserts.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't know- they're dead. If I had to guess I'd say a lot of grease/fat and a lot of salt.

You’d probably be wrong. Don’t you know what your grandma ate generally? Mine ate 80-90% home-grown foods (veggies and meat/eggs) with little fat.

She still died at 83.

I was thinking of my great-grandparents, of whom I only knew one, and she died when I was 15 and ate whatever her nursing home in the Bronx fed her. Before that she lived in an apartment in Brooklyn and had no "home-grown" foods there - they didn't have a garden. Before that she lived in a one room (not one bedroom, one room) house in Eastern Europe and I have no idea what she ate there - but moved to NYC around age 16.

Anonymous wrote:I would eat whatever struck my fancy -- including, after 1970, some processed foods -- IN VERY SMALL / MODERATE AMOUNTS.

There were no "never foods." It's just that they were sensible and not gross gluttons like current Americans.

(they also got a huge amount of incidental exercise by walking to daily Mass, cutting their own grass, doing their own laundry in the basement, etc)

sorry, died at 95 and 94.

My grandparents who died in their 60s were smokers, drinkers and total gluttons who eschewed exercise.

I would eat whatever struck my fancy -- including, after 1970, some processed foods -- IN VERY SMALL / MODERATE AMOUNTS.

There were no "never foods." It's just that they were sensible and not gross gluttons like current Americans.

(they also got a huge amount of incidental exercise by walking to daily Mass, cutting their own grass, doing their own laundry in the basement, etc)

Vodka and cigarettes, 90.

One grandma lived to be 97. She ate bacon and eggs every morning, a ton of salt, and loved a good ham slice. Washed that ham slice down with a dewars and soda.

Other grandma smoked for years, then quit because her husband bet her she couldnt! Drank like a fish. Ate whatever she wanted and was definitely overweight. Died at 96.

Great grandma made the best turkey tetrazzini. She always had a cocktail in hand after 5 pm. Don't know much more because I was in 4th grade when she died at 98!

My great grandmother lived to be 96. Died in her sleep, and pretty healthy almost to the end. She lived a very structured life. Ate a set amount of food at set times. Mostly vegetarian. Took care of herself. She had a certain regimen for different times of the year, and ate differently then. But most importantly, she handed over the reigns to her daughters, and said I'm done. She did not do anything that could be remotely construed as work, after she turned 60. She used to ask us what exactly a headache was, having never had one herself.

Anonymous wrote:Don't know- they're dead. If I had to guess I'd say a lot of grease/fat and a lot of salt.

You’d probably be wrong. Don’t you know what your grandma ate generally? Mine ate 80-90% home-grown foods (veggies and meat/eggs) with little fat.

She still died at 83.

Waffles with butter in every crevice and drenched in syrup, lots of bacon, meat and potatoes for dinner, and big steaks.
Cabbage rolls and sauerkraut and all kinds of heavy German fare. Oh, and beer and whiskey.

Don't know- they're dead. If I had to guess I'd say a lot of grease/fat and a lot of salt.

Don't know- they're dead. If I had to guess I'd say a lot of grease/fat and a lot of salt.

Whiskey and cigs, 101.

My longest-lived relative (99) died years before her physical passing from dementia.

My cleanest-eating aunt died this year from Covid because she was also a vaccine-denier.

So while I try to eat clean and exercise (the exercise is the hardest part), I know I cannot escape my genetic predispositions, and that I need to take good medical care of myself.

Ice cream every single day. And cigarettes.

Thank you.