I'm just going to say if a small number of people have these problems maybe its a "lifestyle choice" but if a lot of people have these problems its because society has made decisions to make bad choices easier than good ones. The big ones I'd say are:

• too much overinvestment on roads and vehicles in the US before the 1950s people would be walking not driving. Offices existed before 1950 but 30 mile commutes did not.
• decades of unnaffordable housing lead to higher transportation times
• laws requiring giant parking lots make housing expensive and increase sprawl lead to car dependence
• decades spent subsidizing shipping of goods over local supply creates bad incentives for processed foods
• poor workers rights lead to low levels of free time to do things like cooking, dating, outdoor hobbies
• gun violence, homelessness and sprawl have lead to decreased investment in free public spaces, more polluted waterways (I haven't heard frogs in years
• car accidences, poor working conditions, poor long term health care, relatively good emergency care, and gun violence lead to the US to be one of the most injured populations outside like war torn third world countries.
• higher reliance on the internet has moved high paying jobs away from extremely rural jobs (historically it had been somewhat reversed with delivery and natural resource jobs being fairly high paying).

We like to pretend there's a healthy way to live in modern society but imo its not realistic for everyone to do so and still pay rent.

I think some confusion over the post was that some people only eat crazy health food stuff. Never ever have a cocktail. Everyday they blend some ultra "supposedly" good for you shakes. If they ever ate a hamburger they would just die. In my opinion those people have taken the "healthy" lifestyle on as a religion.

The people I identify with eat healthy foods like chicken, and I don't mean chicken nuggets. They limit their drinking to only a few days a week. They exercise at least an hour a day and I mean a real exercise like on a commercial grade elliptical or even an hour long bike ride. But they will occasionally have a dessert or a hamburger. They stay at their idea weight but continue to enjoy life.

It's pretty wild how rapidly this place declines as it grows in popularity.

Just like reddit. Lazier and lazier users, producing the same lazy commentary and totally obsessed with self-pitying themselves and blaming everyone else for their woes. Shit's wild.

I just don't get why people find this crap so appealing or funny. But also, apparently anyone who doesn't use Linux is needs to be 're-educated' about his holy computing lord, Linux. I'm starting to get this super weird Linux PMs from psychopaths who think your OS is some sort of religious thing.

Stronger I get. But could you detail smarter? I know that through certain biological processes and thought exercises you can build the brain's capacity, but I am unaware that you have to be physically healthy for this.

I have no clue how I dodge the type 2 bullet. Like I eat relatively healthy (because steak and mashed potatoes or fast food everyday sounds boring AF) but outside of college, I am one of the laziest mfers alive. But in my forties I started getting my a1c checked my serum level hasn't been above 4.

It feels like I both won and lost the genetic lottery. Early onset arthritis and started balding in my twenties. But I'm tall, relatively healthy outside of the arthritis, and told by people who aren't related to me that I'm conventionally attractive. The genome gives and the genome taketh away it seems.

You may be the world's smartest man. I don't even care about the 3 years. Hell they're not guaranteed anyway. I just don't want to be carted around and hooked up to machines for the 20 years or so I have left.

Had an uncle who loved to drink. When he retired he was basically hammered before dinner was served almost every day. Got diabetes and a damaged liver. Died a slow and horrible death. Got necrosis in both his legs, had them both amputated. It didn’t stop his body from wasting away.

Have another uncle who loved to drink a glass of wine regularly and eat lots of red meat. Has Parkinson’s now and is severely demented. I’m sure genetics played a factor but his lifestyle didn’t help. And the fungicides used in vineyards has been linked to Parkinson’s, in France the regions with many vineyards have higher rates of Parkinson’s compared to the rest of the country.

Yes, that's the important part that people often seem to forget. Being totally wrecked in your 40s or even earlier is not good.

Yeah, I keep reminding people, especially young people about this.

What's the use of living until you're 70 if you spend the last ten years of life living in a body that is half dead?

I know one guy who worked in heavy industry retire at 65 and decided to just smoke, drink booze and eat junk on his couch for his retirement. He loved it for about two years. Then he had heart attack, diabetes, and early signs of dementia. He lingered for 8 more years living a miserable life before he died a slow death in hospice for about a year.

One my of neighbours is 80 years old and still at home ... but for the past ten years, he's been battling cancer, heart problems and almost semi regular infections of some kind. His entire life is just pain every day. He keeps ending up in the hospital for something ... only to return a week or two later after having survived. He is just miserable all the time and the only way anyone can see him coming out of all this is to die.

I have another old friend who is 70, great heart, good weight, good bodily health .... but she has Alzheimers ... and she's had signs of it for the past ten years. She'll live for a while but what kind of life is it to not have your memory for the last ten years of your life?

Take care of yourself as much as possible now while you are young. Sure some of this is just genetics or luck but I'd rather try my best to have a decent quality of life later on than do things to guarantee I'll be miserable at the end of my life.

I'll never drink again, but there are some days still that I wish my mind could be as numb as it was while I was a raging alcoholic. That thought is usually replaced with remembering how shitty I always felt and how I didn't give a fuck about anything. Life was a blur.

A mostly clear mind and recovering body is a very good thing. Daily stress is easily managed with regular exercise and chronic anxiety and depression is only a tiny fraction of what it once was. It's a good life now.

I believe the lifestyle changes not only lengthened my life, but it also stretched out my perceived time as well.

Replaced pop/soda with tea(specifically looseleaf) about 15 years ago. At first needed it sweetener(with honey) to enjoy. Now, no sweetener at all is best.

And there are so many awesome flavours.

Right now I have a fantastic vanilla and peppermint tea as my latest addition.