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Males in the USA have an 81% chance of living to age 65 [1]. I think it makes sense to take care of yourself. Of course, allow yourself the occasional indulgence.

Your habits of your 20s and 30s could significantly impact your 40s and 50s. Taking care of yourself means enjoying more great moments later on too. Also, taking care of yourself can be in itself enjoyable. Pick up a sport, or if you're not competitive, make going to the gym a social thing. And eating healthy can certainly be tasty.

[1]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TO65.MA.ZS?locat...

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>Pick up a sport, or if you're not competitive, make going to the gym a social thing.

Gross. Just run or, preferably, swim for 40 minutes to some hardcore music[0]. Let the endorphin high melt the pain and carry you through!

>And eating healthy can certainly be tasty.

It can be tasty when you consider fruit. When you consider everything else, it's misery. We evolved to crave sugar and fat. Gg

But you have to deprecate mouth pleasure for a more durable basis of well-being, which is being healthier, and well-being is important because you want to live for as long as possible so you can someday witness the year of the Linux desktop!

[0]: https://youtu.be/Ihi_kJJj_8A

> When you consider everything else, it's misery.

You're really missing out there. A friend of mine has given up meat for lent, and we're now trying a bunch of vegetarian recipes. It fits quite well because I've recently started looking into Indian cooking where you can do a lot without meat.

The only problem is that I absolutely despise all the stuff around cooking (searching for recipes, shopping for ingredients, doing the dishes, people that insist that cooking is super-easy and judge you for not doing it more often).

Visit Japan sometime. The packaged food is good and not heavily weighted towards the "sugar-cream" U.S. norms. Salty and umami flavors are preferred instead and you can pick up a decent example of it from any konbini, everywhere you go.

As the article says about aging, it's a collective problem. We are systematically encouraging ourselves at a large scale to consume take-out pizza and Coke.

> It can be tasty when you consider fruit. When you consider everything else, it's misery.

I used to think that, but now I'm living with a hard-vegetarian/soft-vegan and I've discovered that it's not exactly true, even though my tastes didn't really change and I still dislike most of the vegetables.

Goddamn, only 81% to just 65? We're doomed.

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