Living in a healthy lifestyle

There is a long tradition of "experts" telling the world what to do to be healthy - with a long tradition of them being wrong.

But people telling us to do things healthily or get contemptuous about fat people don't generally give us information needed to make a decision. We, men of this planet, wonder what health lifestyle choices people would make if they knew the results of their choices.

The answer is simple: we do - at least, we learn some good habits if we pay attention.

Vitamin deficiencies sicken and kill; eat vegetables.

Cholesterol clogs the blood vessels and leads to heart disease.

Smoking kills half of the people who do it, as well as some folks who are just nearby.

Overweight (calories eaten, calories burned) also causes heart disease, and cancer, and, um, which is it, "type 2"? diabetes, which can make you go blind amongst other unwelcome consequences.

Exercise improves the performance of heart and lungs - the heart's a muscle, so exercise it.

Eating fish each week (does it matter what kind of fish?) protects against Alzheimer's, or was it Parkinson's.

The question now is what health lifestyle choices people would make if they knew the above results of their choices.






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