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Originally Posted by kane
While I think nutrition, exercise and lifestyle does play a big role I think living to be very old 90+ is often just dumb luck. I head stories all the time about people who never smoked, hardly drank, exercised and lived a healthy life dying at 65 while someone like my aunt who smoked half her life and drank pretty much every day of her life lived to be 95.
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My mom is 76, and looks like she's in her early 60's. She eats sausage, bacon and eggs more than a human should, but she never smoked or drank and has taken vitamins her entire life. She's healthy and never needed to go to the hospital from being sick with one of the usual maladies that effect most families. There's also a special gene in my family that gives everyone Tom Cruise disease. If there's someone who I think is 10 years older than me, I'll find out that we're the same age. That could be called luck. But I could also get killed by a car, or a German Sheppard attack.