My grandma was born in 1910, in Europe. Worked as a peasant landowner, land was hers, only child of of father who died in WWI and her mom passed away young too. Her family raised their animals and crops and ate them. Almost nothing was store bought until after WWII, and even then most was farm, until later on. She sure had bacon, but also ton of veggies, pickled winter veggies, made her own jam, and all. Maybe it works if your grandma or great, great, great grandma was not rich?

Maybe this advice only works if your grandparents were pre-war Japanese people. My grandmother was born in 1920 and raised in Missouri. She never did any exercise intentionally in her life, wore heels everyday for 20 years of teaching and spent the last 10 years of her life sitting in a wheelchair (which she could not move herself) because her feet were mangled and her leg muscles were waisted. Girls weren’t allowed to play sports in school when she was a kid and a teacher. She ate a salad with every dinner: a wedge of iceberg lettuce, a wedge of tomato and blue cheese dressing (sometimes cucumber). My great grandmother died of a heart attack at 56. She probably ate vegetables from her garden, but I’m sure they were cooked or canned with lots of salt.

I’m doing my best to improve that record, just as my mother did when raising us. Some traditions are worth letting go of. I like Michael Pollen’s advice to “eat food, mostly vegetables, not too much.”

Greek yogurt tastes like feet dipped in old milk.

Grew up eating it every day, it's delicious.
Never had any weight or stomach problems.

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Anonymous wrote:My grandmother used to dip her veggies in a huge tub of mayo as a snack. She kept a can of bacon grease in the fridge. She was very slim but certainly not active or healthy. I think maybe I will stick with my veggies dipped in Greek yogurt and skip the lard.

I do miss her terribly though - she lived to be 96!

Lol. You’re turning your nose up at the habits of your thin grandmother who lived to be 96? What are you hoping the Greek yogurt will get you to—109? Give me bacon, a size 2, and an expiration of mid-90s any day. Greek yogurt tastes like feet dipped in old milk.

Sounds like grandma was on a healthy veggie-rich keto diet. No wonder she lived so long!

Anonymous wrote:My grandmother used to dip her veggies in a huge tub of mayo as a snack. She kept a can of bacon grease in the fridge. She was very slim but certainly not active or healthy. I think maybe I will stick with my veggies dipped in Greek yogurt and skip the lard.

I do miss her terribly though - she lived to be 96!

Lol. You’re turning your nose up at the habits of your thin grandmother who lived to be 96? What are you hoping the Greek yogurt will get you to—109? Give me bacon, a size 2, and an expiration of mid-90s any day. Greek yogurt tastes like feet dipped in old milk.