Dave Urring wrote:

> It isn't the cause of all illness. But consuming a lot of flesh
> from animals that have been mistreated and pumped full of
> chemicals and eat their dead brothers is not a real bright idea.
>
> Especially if you are sitting around on your fat butt all day.
>
> We should add fitness level too.
>
> Since you don't want to answer, I'll assume the following:
>
> 40 years of age.
>
> 5'10
>
> 250#
>
> You eat a a lot of animal products.
>
> At least a dozen trips to the doctor a year.
>
> Fitness level: 1 out of 10

My father in law would fail your test. He used to get up in the morning and
have two spoons full of yogurt, some cereal with fruit, 2 poached eggs with
cheese and salt along with 2-3 slices of toast, each smeared with butter and
honey. He went to restaurants for lunch and usually had red meat with gravy.
He was a big meat eater. Whenever he served a roast he would have seconds,
thirds, maybe a fourth helping. After his wife died his evening meal was
reduced to peanut butter on crackers or cold cuts, and always a double
martini.

The last time I saw him stand on his head and chug a beer he was 86. That
was about the same time I saw him run a half a city block to catch a
streetcar. He rarely went to the doctor. He could still fit into his WW I
army uniform, and he was quite fit and active until he died peacefully in his
sleep a few weeks before his 95th birthday.

My wife inherited her father's eating habits. She eats bacon and eggs for
breakfast, or just hard boiled eggs and cheese if she is in a hurry. She goes
through 1-2 dozen eggs per week, at least a pound of cheese, uses cream in
her coffee (no substitutes). She uses a lot of butter on vegetables. She
eats 2-3 times as much meat as I do, and especially likes red meats. While I
cut off the fat from my meat, she not only eats all the fat on her meat but
often eats the stuff that I cut off. She has no cholesterol problems. She
avoids starch in all forms, and eats very little sugar. At age 59 she is
5'7" and weighs 135, and people are always commenting on how great she looks.

My grandmother almost always had bacon and eggs for breakfast. She had cream
in her tea and smeared bread with butter. She had meat with every meal. She
was never much overweight and died 2 weeks short of her 100th birthday after
breaking a hip. She had survived a broken hip two years earlier.


According to your misguided estimates, they would all have been 250 and
frequent visitors to the doctor and died young.