Your Weekly Top Ten Is Still Spitting White Hot RAGE
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Shall we count down our top ten stories of the whole wide week? We shall.
Stories chosen as usual by Beyoncé:
10. Doppelgänger 2: The Rapin' Boogaloo
9. T he 9,834 Times Beto O'Rourke Made Ted Cruz Look Like A Creepy Asshole
8. Deleted Emails: What Kind Of A Socialist Owns A Website, Anyway?
7. Arizona GOP Rep. Paul Gosar's Siblings Don't Want You To Vote For Their Terrible Brother
6. 6 Reasons Mel Gibson Should Go Away Forever
5. Can Brett Kavanaugh Still Plow Through Without America's Consent? LET'S TAKE BETS!
4. Is Dianne Feinstein 'Bout To Shove Lisa Murkowski Into A Locker, Or Is Everything Good?
3. Christine Blasey Ford Just Sciencing The Fuck Out Of This
2. New York Times Just Handed Trump Rod Rosenstein's Head On A Stick, So It Can Fuck Right Out Of Here
So there you go. Those are your top ten most clicked upon stories, according to Beyoncé. They are very good stories!
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They do control stress. They helped me with stress for 40 years. And yes, stress is a killer far more than smoking is.
Many things in life are killers. The food we eat is killing people. The exhaust fumes from cars in major cities is killing people who commute to work in heavy traffic every day. I read once that eating one pork chop per week is a higher risk for lung cancer than smoking is, according to the CDC. My uncle was a fireman in NYC for 30 years who never smoked a day in his life, and then he died of lung cancer from all the burning asbestos in the old buildings where he put out fires. When they did an autopsy on him, his lungs were full of asbestos fibers. Today, when I fill in questionnaires at doctors offices they ask if any of my family died of cancer, and if were to say yes, they would mark me down as having a family cancer risk, but I'm not a cancer risk, because my uncle didn't die of normal cancer, he died of asbestos cancer, so I don't check that box. They don't have a box for "asbestos cancer."
My dad grew up during the Great Depression. His father was a lead miner who was injured in the mines and lost his job in 1930, so my dad had to support the family with before- and after-school jobs when he was only 12. He hunted and fished on the weekends to put fresh meat and fish on the table. They ate very little red meat unless he got a deer or rabbits or squirrels, mostly it was fish from the rivers. He worked hard all his life, mostly outside, got plenty of exercise, always ate fresh, mostly organic food he raised or grew himself. So yes, he ate far better than people do today, and he stayed fit all his life, never drank to excess.
We never ate to excess in my family when I was growing up either. No processed foods ever except for packaged cookies now and then. Fast food was a rarity, eating out at restaurants was a rarity as my mother was very frugal. We were all very fit, spent most of our time outside whenever possible, my sister and I were dancers, swimmers, bicyclers, my brother was into baseball and basketball and swimming. There were no computers or video games to keep us inside, we had only 2 TV channels and no color TV until I was in junior high school, so there wasn't much to watch, instead we read books or played outside. The world has changed so much, hardly anyone lives that way anymore.
the main thing I am hearing is low stress. That's a killer more than a bit of alcohol in moderation. I even heard an argument for cigarettes is that if they control stress it's a wash, as stress can be as bad as cigarettes. I'm not sure I buy that myself (I tend more toward exercise, yoga, meditation and not sweating the small stuff.) In the era of Trump, everything is far more stressful, of course. It also sounds like your dad proactively ate better food than was generally consumed 50 or 60 years ago (steak, steak, steak, burger, hotdog, steak is my recollection as a kid). Anyway, I admire his lifestyle as described. DNA is a factor for sure, as long as one doesn't undercut it with bacon cheese burgers.