Helen, I had not thought about how you presented your thoughts and I agree with you as I have met and also personally known many elderly men and women whom have lived through the great depression whereby they hardly had much to eat and grew to old age in wonderful health until say the last 5 or so as different ailments start catching up. My late father was one of these people, the eldest of his two younger sisters, as his father died when Dad was 3 at the turn of the century 1900. Of course back in those days there was not widows benefits etc, his mother had to take in laundry, to wash and iron and anything else in domestic chores she could do at home while raising her 3 children under school age. My father said there was two food items he hated, quince jam and savoloys (savoloys are like salami meat made into a sausage shape and the skin is red, you boil them slightly to heat through and they are eaten a lot in New Zealand) - I have never tasted quince nor ever saw it...because for many years this was all he had in his sandwiches to eat at school and quince stewed fruit, preserves etc along with maybe a little meat and any vegetables that they could grow or keep over the winter months. My father's diet was not that good for many of growing years yet he lived until he was 9 days before his 80th birthday party our family was preparing for him, we think he was excited about this party although he was never a man to show his emotions.
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Hello Evelyn and all
Isn't it really amazing how people and animals can come to an inch of death and then be revived. I recently saw a video of a Jewish woman in her late 80's, I think it was, who starved in Hitler's camps. I am surprised when I see a animal or human live such long lives after having almost starved to death in the earlier part of their lives. You would think that the starvation would affect them one way or another in their later lives but it does not seem to be the case. God does His wonders perform.
Helen
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