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Secrets Of Long Life
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Have fun in the present, but make choices that will leave you choices later in life. You may not care much now whether or not you live until 70 or 90. But what if, at 68, you find a new passion, or a new friend, or a soulmate?
Smoking and drinking excessively are not choices that leave you options when you're older. If you manage to escape their effects, that is luck, not choice. Be a friend to the person you will one day become.
As for the diseases that we have little to no control over? Unfortunately, there's not much we can do yet. But there are people who are devoting their lives to finding solutions. So, if you know them, offer them support. Because they may make it possible for you to get those options back.
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I never forgot those words.
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My Dad found the love of his life at the age of 74. Weeks after they met, she was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer. She made it two more years before she died. That relationship changed my father completely. Some of us reach our life goals at 35, but we shouldn't forget all the wonderful, life-changing things that can happen late in life.
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She is in relatively good health (barring joint point and very serious arthritis from aging), but her daughters (my mom and aunties) have not fared as well. None of them have smoked, or drank, or heck, even took Advil regularly, and all have developed some form of breast case or lymphoma, though all were luckily mild cases that were treatable. My mom has MS, though, for which there is no cure.
It is more than genetics, more than lifestyle. I've recently read about the concept of off-gassing: that all the products we use that are pre-treated give off noxious fumes, hence "new car smell". Think of all the lotions and make-up and hair care and dry cleaning we've used; all those chemicals most cause some accrued effect, not to mention environmental hazards like tainted water and pollution. I'm becoming a serious green fiend.
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I couldn't think of a nicer word for stupid, I'm having a rough morning.
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so yea, OMG SECOND HAND SMOKE!!! might sound stupid, but calling people out on that, when you don't know their family history of cancer, is actually stupid. and rude.
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tequila
weed
chocolate cream powdered doughnuts
America's Next Top Model
all of the above, all at once. Fuck. Yeah.
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gin and tonic
cheesecake
sunbathing
TMZ
People magazine
french fries
rum and pineapple juice
I haven't figured out how to combine all of these at once, but I keep trying!
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Seriously tho, your comment brings up the whole question -- what's the line between having fun and staying safe? I used to freak out after having more than one cigarette while out drinking, thinking I was definitely giving myself cancer. Well maybe not, but does that make it safe? You see what I'm saying.
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:-)
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She is my new heroine.