Obesity and various cancers

[stormshadow]

www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/04/30/obesity-linked-thyroid-liver-kindey-ovary-pancreas-colon-cancer/3630418002/

I remember this old farmer in Pennsylvania when I was a kid who was almost 100. He told me did you ever notice that you never see old fat people on the street or in old folks homes? He was amazing. Still hunting and fishing at that age and really good at both. Along with farm work too.

[mr potatohead]

May 2, 2019 1:15:10 GMT stormshadow said:

I remember this old farmer in Pennsylvania when I was a kid who was almost 100. He told me did you ever notice that you never see old fat people on the street or in old folks homes? He was amazing. Still hunting and fishing at that age and really good at both. Along with farm work too.

I love anecdotes like this.

[fastfor40]

I mentioned in another forum I had two uncles in northern Minnesota who lived on their farms until their respective deaths in their 80s and 90s.

They got up every morning to do chores, in the summer they'd be on the haywagon with us young stallions stacking hay and straw bales, one mowed his two acre yard every week with a push mower ... I could go on and on.

Both were tall and very, very lean. Saturday nights the two families would get together for dinner and to watch Vern Gagne's "All-Star Wrestling."

What I wouldn't give to live those days again.

[jonrock]

May 2, 2019 15:57:00 GMT fastfor40 said:

What I wouldn't give to live those days again.

Although I am young I understand that feeling, until 10 years ago my family got together for every celebration/holiday, summers were spent together with my grandparents.
Eating together home cooked meals in the company of the whole family, that is healh itself.

[gruntbrain]

Give cancer to effing cancer