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."
> or a tad obsessive (page after page on the importance of chewing one’s food)<p>> 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.<p>Guess he really was onto something with that chewing thing.
I never follow 'advice' from outliers.<p>Also, remember "survivorship bias."<p>The advice:<p><pre><code> Drink plenty of water
Get out in the sunlight and fresh air
Floss
And, of course, exercise
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Yea, ok. Thanks.