Maggie's Farm

A Sedentary Lifestyle is the sworn enemy of our health.

This seems to make sense. It is what so many talking heads will eagerly tell you. Typically those talking heads are in the 20's or early 30's and literally have no clue about what they are talking about. And yet everyone knows family members who in their whole life never did anything more physical than clean the house and they living into their late 80's or even 90's. My ex wife's grandmother had nine children never worked a day in her life outside of her home and lived to 104. She never went to a gym, never exercised, never ate a healthy diet and lived to be 104!!

The simple fact is your health and your longevity is more based on genetics than exercise and diet. Simple as that. Sooner or later these 30 something "experts" will be in their 60's and they will finally be able to understand that how you feel at 30 and what you know or think you know at 30 is actually diddly squat.

Is exercise good for you? Absolutely. Will it assure good health and longevity? Only in your dreams. I will absolutely guarantee every 30 something that when they reach 60 their prostrate will be the size of a softball, and that sometime in their 60's to 70's (if they are still alive) they will be diagnosed with the disease that will kill them. THAT, like it or not is what your future is and it does not matter a bit how many pushups you do or how many squats you do.

I say this as a 77 YO male with multiple cancers and a prostrate as big as a softball who has exercised his entire life. The good news? My heart seems strong. So it is likely that I will die with a heart made strong from 70 + years of exercise but it will not save me. And you know what? At 30 something I thought Exercise and good diet was the smartest thing I ever did. I thought I knew far more than I actually did.