What worries you about the next 5 years?
When I teach my students about certain chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes or even dementia, I talk to them about modifiable versus non-modifiable risk factors. Modifiable risk factors being things like smoking, exercise, alcohol intake etc.
There are habits or ways of living that can either lead to towards disease or keep you away from disease, statistically speaking of course.
So I try to live a lifestyle in which I am doing all I can to be and stay healthy. I include the good things and try and stay away from the bad things. I’m not out here running marathons and only living on chickpeas and cottage cheese, although lately it is one of my favourite lunches. Last evening I did talk Sid into coming to Dairy Queen with me because I was craving a cookie dough Blizzard. Everything in moderation, right? (I did get the mini size.)
But it’s not always enough. I’m sure we all know or knew that person who did everything right yet they were still grabbed and taken down by something awful like cancer or a heart attack.
I guess I have a problem with the unknown. Not knowing if I will live healthily and in an able body for at least another twenty years. It’s scary.
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