Hi my wife brought this artical to my attention as she is a YO YO dieter, I my self keep my body weight with out the need to watch what I eat, lucky me.

Feb 2010 I hit sixy two years young and I have never had a day off school or work, is there a God up there or am I plain lucky?

At the age of two my mother, sister and me caught TB – Tubercolosis, it killed my mother that year ( 1950 ) my sister lived till she was thirty four having got married and had seven children, when having her last son the damage TB done to her lungs finnally caught up with her, they removed one of her lungs so she could go on carring her unborn son, the son was born healthy, next they removed part of the other lung but sadly she died afew weeks later.

Now sixty year after losing my mother, it got me thinking I must have a great immuune system or was it my diet, I do eat a lot of fresh vegables and fruit, I’ve always worked out side ( drilling rigs ) any body who know what the weather is like in the Uk should know that most of the year it can be —

Was it fighting off the Tubercolosis as a child that gave me a good immune system or my body weight staying level through out my life?

I think it’s a bit of both but sorry to say I CAN’T PROVE IT…

Food for thought:

National Paper the Sun, artical title,

GROWING OLD

” Eating allotment veg is the secret of village with longest life expectancy ”

It goes on to say the 680 residens of Montacute in Somerset will on average live to at least 89.

1 they didn’t use chemicals
2 they got plenty of exercise
3 out in all weathers

“The papers doctor Dr Carol Cooper believes the real benefit comes from all the exercise involved in gardening and allotments as the stress levels would also be low.”

I live about half hours drive from this village and live in a small street of 28 houses, at sixty two I am call young-un by half the locals, most of us grow our own fruit and veg as my father before me…

Could the fruit and veg bought in shops, super markets be causing your immune system to break down? (Nasty Chemicals ) Or is it the stress of living in the rat race we live today.

I think to day most people live under to much pressure, that’s why they have weight problems and weak immune system, their not eating a well ballance healthy diet, grabbing fast or junk food just to get by…

Take Care.
Ken…

Allotment – a small peace of land alloted to a family to grow their own fruit and veg, started here in the UK WW2, second world war.
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