Your secrets of longevity?

[knocky1]

Having a dog is said to be very good for longevity..........God knows what I'd eat and drink if she wasn't around.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Music is such a good stress relief

Sort of this till i pondered on the fact that my main musical heroes are now all dead! Ian Curtis,Joe Strummer,Johhny Cash,David Bowie and the main man Leonard Norman Cohen. These artists made up 80% of my music playing.No more new albums no more tours but glad to say have seen them all live apart from Cash.Who's going to provide a soundtrack for my remaining years




Having a dog is said to be very good for longevity.Gets me on the glorious southdowns every morning! Gotta help!

 

[robinsonsgrin]

a recently-gained understanding of cellular health...and how to detox properly.... blooding amazing what you dont know.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Sort of this till i pondered on the fact that my main musical heroes are now all dead! Ian Curtis,Joe Strummer,Johhny Cash,David Bowie and the main man Leonard Norman Cohen. These artists made up 80% of my music playing.No more new albums no more tours but glad to say have seen them all live apart from Cash.Who's going to provide a soundtrack for my remaining years




Having a dog is said to be very good for longevity.Gets me on the glorious southdowns every morning! Gotta help!

Used to leave work for home listening to Kiss FM, but I found the banging dance music was matched by my effing & jeffing at the other gimps on the road.
So now it's a cultured trip home with Classic FM.
No room for a dog, but you've a great title for a thread there, in 'soundtrack for saga' [MENTION=12634]Return of the Rev[/MENTION]

 

[Gwylan]

Been thinking a bit about this recently as I turn 60 tomorrow and am within a couple of years of the age that my dad died. Not only that but none of my grandparents reached 75 - two failing to reach 65. It's all very sobering.

On the other hand, my mum's still going strong at 86. And I'm in good nick; I'm fit enough to cycle everywhere, I'm doing a rugby coaching course and managed to play two games of Sevens with the 20 and 30-somethings last week. I've not smoked, been a veggie all my adult life and drink moderately. I hope that's all enough to see my kids grow to adulthood.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Been thinking a bit about this recently as I turn 60 tomorrow and am within a couple of years of the age that my dad died. Not only that but none of my grandparents reached 75 - two failing to reach 65. It's all very sobering.

On the other hand, my mum's still going strong at 86. And I'm in good nick; I'm fit enough to cycle everywhere, I'm doing a rugby coaching course and managed to play two games of Sevens with the 20 and 30-somethings last week. I've not smoked, been a veggie all my adult life and drink moderately. I hope that's all enough to see my kids grow to adulthood.

Fantastic stuff

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Been thinking a bit about this recently as I turn 60 tomorrow and am within a couple of years of the age that my dad died. Not only that but none of my grandparents reached 75 - two failing to reach 65. It's all very sobering.

On the other hand, my mum's still going strong at 86. And I'm in good nick; I'm fit enough to cycle everywhere, I'm doing a rugby coaching course and managed to play two games of Sevens with the 20 and 30-somethings last week. I've not smoked, been a veggie all my adult life and drink moderately. I hope that's all enough to see my kids grow to adulthood.

My Dad was an orphan at 17, his parents having died in their 40s and 50s. One died of diptheria, and the other of pneumonia. This was prewar, vaccinations and antibiotics. He lived to 78.
My maternal grandfather died of a heart attack at 68, but my grandmother lived to 84. My mother is still going at 87, but with no quality of life to speak of.

I've already lost a brother and sister, so think myself very lucky to still be here at 68.

 

[lawros left foot]

Having a implantable cardioverter defribulator has worked for me for the last nine years

 

[Trufflehound]

Red wine and decent speakers.

Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln were decent speakers. Didn't help much with their longevity.

 

[Trufflehound]

Tomatoes, turmeric and purple-coloured food. Together or separately.


And alcohol, obviously.

 

[soistes]

The lesson is....there is no lesson.
I've known people who burn the candle at every end and have lived to a good age and I've known moderates who have died relatively young. A lot depends on the genes you inherit. There is little or no heart trouble anywhere in my family but nearly everybody gets the big C. Suicidal tendencies run in some families. others have no history. It all depends on your biological make-up. If you are pre-disposed to something, then it will probably get you. Hammering booze and fags, day after day, clearly increases your chances of dying younger than anticipated but its not cast iron guaranteed.

Surely this is nonsense? The fact that we can identify "people who burn the candle at every end" but live long, and "moderates" who die young, doesn't change the other fact that, statistically, if both the candle-burners and the moderates took measures to be more (even more, in the case of the moderates) healthy, through diet, exercise, and other lifestyle improvements, they'd both be likely to live longer than otherwise.

 

[Brovion]

By ignoring absolutely everything that comes under the heading of 'Government Advice' when it comes to lifestyle choices. Especially food and drink. It's all bollocks.

 

[Durlston]

Plenty of exercise each day and a good balanced diet.

Must admit I impressed myself on Saturday by downing a pint of Harveys in three minutes at half-time. Great ale but I only really drink at football.

 

[pearl]

By ignoring absolutely everything that comes under the heading of 'Government Advice' when it comes to lifestyle choices. Especially food and drink. It's all bollocks.

Yay! life's a lottery .... don't worry about a ting

 

[fat old seagull]

For crying out loud...why is Bruno being held up as any example of longevity? Yes, he's got a big beard and no hair. But in years he's a baby. Better to ask an ancient person, don't you think?
For myself, I suggest it's mostly in your genes, apart from the poster boasting of his biggun....and that's in his jeans!

 

[Giraffe]

Bananas
Dark Chocolate
Younger wife

 

[Surf's Up]

Regular ************.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Tomatoes, turmeric and purple-coloured food. Together or separately.


And alcohol, obviously.

Tomatoes and turmeric are the two biggies, along with green tea. That said, as Brovian posted above, could all be bollocks in the same way that anti wrinkle cream does nothing to stop your skin ageing. A decades long alcoholic and big smoker that I know has amazing skin and looks about ten years younger than his age, that said he could drop down dead tomoz.

 

[Brovion]

Yay! life's a lottery .... don't worry about a ting

Agreed. I'm sure those people who think things like "Oh, I haven't eaten my five a day .... I think I've had too many units of booze this week .... I wonder how much added sugar and salt there is in my broccoli smoothie?" etc actually make themselves more ill with worry than those of us who don't give a shit. In the long run we're all dead anyway.

Cheers!

 

[TheJasperCo]

Laughter. It's what's kept me 24 for years now.