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dingdingdang
I do not like how the article easily dismisses the point that this guys wife became a centenarian with "Good genes, perhaps, but probably not her husband’s exercises, which she was said to have shunned."
kleer001
I never follow 'advice' from outliers.

Also, remember "survivorship bias."

The advice:

    Drink plenty of water
    Get out in the sunlight and fresh air
    Floss
    And, of course, exercise
Yea, ok. Thanks.
crimsonalucard
Never dismiss advice from something that potentially may not be an outlier.
nsxwolf
And when people ask 100 year olds how they did it, the recommendation is always smoking and drinking.
a8da6b0c91d
Ray Kurzweil is going to live forever because he takes a hundred pills a day, so i don't know why you'd recommend silly things like enjoying a drink and a smoke.
agumonkey
Because of guys like Compay Segundo living 95 years while smoking cigars when they wanted to. Nature is complex.

Also a bit of alcohol can relieve stress, it's probably better to smooth out things a bit with a glass of wine rather than going zero-tolerance on some substance and suffering regular anxiety.

hobarrera
That's quite right. Stress can be extremely harmful, but it's very hard for one to realize it.

I've have issues with teeth, hair, sleep, and colon all due to stress at some points (once in my life, all four at the same time).

Smoking a joint merely to relieve stress every once in a while would probably have helped my health more that it would have damaged it

Dewie3
So, a man started exercising and stuff in his older age.
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dcw303
> or a tad obsessive (page after page on the importance of chewing one’s food)

> He reportedly died in the mid-1920s, when he was in his early 80s. It wasn’t age that did him in, but choking on a chicken bone.

Guess he really was onto something with that chewing thing.

hobarrera
Chewing is extremely important, and since it's so increasingly common to drink something with meals, people are doing it less and less.

I've even heard people say the can't not-drink with meals because they'd choke. To which I simply reply "Well, I chew my food and that avoids the choking".

A bit of liquid with dry foods helps digestion, but otherwise it's unnecessary, and even unhealthy in the excess commonly seen today.

I lost a lot of weight and had several other health benefits when I started chewing a lot more my food (like going to the loo with great ease).

simplexion
Why is this on the front page and receiving upvotes? I am genuinely interested why people are upvoting.