Reminders- age but different life choices

[shootingstar]

I can't claim that all of my good health (so far) is just me (though as an adult we do become fully accountable for this), I do credit a healthy foundational diet I had as a kid where we weren't counting calories but more about balanced meals, etc. which alot of the home knowledge (from primarily my mother. Though father provided lots of useful info from newspapers on healthy vs. unhealthy food trends), I incorporate into my own diet.

Most definitely I see the effects of good diet long term on various members of my family as the years roll by.

A healthy diet with a healthy approach to food in general for several decades of life has a profound effect on a person's overall physical development and what they become as an adult, how well they feel and how that might affect aging.

I actually don't spend enough time reading diet books, food labels (maybe I should) or learn about designing menus. I try to eat intuitively ..which is probably only partially successful. I'm not sure if I want to go through life and into elder years, counting calories. Maybe I'm not facing up to reality.

I can only see myself taking an expensive cruise holiday if../when I become disabled from age. I'm not the sort of person that likes being confined in a vehicle for several days ..when I know there's an exciting foreign country to visit along the way. I have to get out there..and experience it directly.

I have parents who at my age, had no desire to travel further than 100 kms. away or so. However I have to credit them what they did in their early 20's, that I will never do: they immigrated to a completely different linguistic and cultural environment. That in itself can be stressful and can 'age' a person, especially on a low income.