@Lilac “I don’t know why I was always exploring health alternatives, but being open to unusual opinions has shaped my life for the better. In the 80s I read Durk Pearson’s Life Extension, and though he did not get everything right, he put me on the right track in certain ways. He advocated butter and meat, for example. My mother was always fussy about what she ate–more from a quality standpoint that being a health nut. She didn’t like or trust other people’s cooking, and she bought high-quality ingredients. Also, she didn’t like or trust doctors or prescriptions. My father went to a doctor rarely. Absolutely no prescriptions, and I don’t remember him even taking an aspirin. Neither of them drank or smoked. Lots to be thankful for!”
I don’t remember people back then caring about their food to where they were dieting. When I was a kid it was real butter, milk delivered to their doors, homemade ice cream, root beer floats, mashed potatoes and beef. I do remember Jack Lalane being popular and various strange exercise contraptions my mother had, one had her standing on a square twisting her tires side to side and the other was a big rubber band that attached to a door knob. I just saw this photo today…
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