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A buddy of mine has rice and beans nearly every dinner though he knows how to cook variations so it’s a surprisingly tasty diet.

I’m surprised the guy in the article could go decades without eating any veggies but his diet has clearly worked for him.

The strokes could just be genetics and/or old age catching up.

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> but his diet has clearly worked for him.

Is it clear, given the multiple strokes? We don't know with certainty whether the diet was a significant factor, but it's possible.

I know of people who do not eat veggies an have lived into their 70s before they have a stroke. The are also people who have strokes or other problems before 70 even if they eat their veggies. I fully expect that my high stress and sedentary life of a software developer will kill me long before 70. Such are the trade offs of a well paying profession.

You must be young if you think that dying in your 60's is a long, well lived life. The retirement age is around 65 (depending on where you live and work).

Surely you want some time to live life without the obligations of work? Otherwise what is it all for?

As I have gotten older and felt the speed-up in the passage of time, I realize a few years one way or the other won't matter. You'll reach the end of your time before you know it either way. The key is to be satisified with your life now, not waiting for some "later" that will be over and done with far too quickly.

I can definitely feel when I break out of the routine once in a while. A weekend feels like an entire week. Now with corona and winter I can barely recall what I’ve done for the last 6 months, if not just work.

John Lennon once said that life was what happened to you while you were busy making other plans.

"...if you think that dying in your 60's is a long, well lived life."

All I said was that I don't expect to get very old with the high stress, sedentary job.

>I fully expect that my high stress and sedentary life of a software developer will kill me long before 70.

You may need to negotiate better terms for yourself if you work in the most financially rewarding field of work in the world, maybe the history of the world, and you can't find the time to exercise or de stress.

Lol this is not the most financially rewarding. There are plenty of other fields that have higher average salaries. I don't even make $100k.

Vegetables lowers the chance of stroke. They are not supposed to completely prevent it. There are many more factors that go into whether you get stroke. But, vegetable intake makes yours blood pressure go down somewhat and make you less likely to have stroke.

Yeah, it’s impossible to know why this guy had a series of strokes. It could be genetics, diet, other lifestyle factors.

He might have had a genetic predisposition for high blood pressure or other contributing factors that can lead to strokes.

Yeah, I have had similar thoughts that stress will get me in the end.

He said he has an onion every day.

> I’m surprised the guy in the article could go decades without eating any veggies ...

Doesn't he eat a whole onion every night? Onions are vegetables right?

I would agree it sounds like a lack of green veggies, though, if that's what you meant.

Yeah, onions count but I guess I was thinking a variety of veggies. When I eat some onion I don’t feel the sense of hey i think it would be awesome to eat a whole onion every day but everyone has different preferences and I try not to judge people for their tastes.

So I guess I was thinking more like a variety of veggies that presumably as a farmer he could grow if he enjoyed veggies. This guy had a clear idea of what he liked and went with it.

Humans ate only meat for 2 million years.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-2-million-years-humans-ate...

He wasn’t exactly on the paleo diet... his diet seemed to be missing some things he could have gotten more than one way.

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