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<blockquote data-quote="Cocosilk" data-source="post: 2217202" data-attributes="member: 501623"><p>Oh, when I said that, I had just read that a plant based diet is not always strictly plants, so it can include meat, eggs fish and dairy but the idea is you eat whole foods and avoid processed foods. (Probably depends on whose definition you use.) So you eat your share of fruit and veges and probably some grain foods as well as meat, fish, eggs and dairy, but don't overeat and you can probably make it into old age without diabetes. Whether or not you would have a degree of insulin resistance, I imagine probably unless you have access to really clean food and never eat out. But no one really does that so most of us would have a degree of insulin resistance by old age I imagine. </p><p>My 80yo father and his 83yo sister are both in relatively good health and neither have diabetes so I'm thinking of what they must have eaten to get them that far. It would have been as I described above, although my father did drink a bit more alcohol for a few earlier years. He has had high blood pressure for years and I imagine he must have insulin resistance by now. He complains about the belly fat that creeps on when he sits in front of the TV eating popcorn. So it's slowly catching up with him now too I think. But not bad to make it to 80 at least and still going and not be too metabolically deranged.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cocosilk, post: 2217202, member: 501623"] Oh, when I said that, I had just read that a plant based diet is not always strictly plants, so it can include meat, eggs fish and dairy but the idea is you eat whole foods and avoid processed foods. (Probably depends on whose definition you use.) So you eat your share of fruit and veges and probably some grain foods as well as meat, fish, eggs and dairy, but don't overeat and you can probably make it into old age without diabetes. Whether or not you would have a degree of insulin resistance, I imagine probably unless you have access to really clean food and never eat out. But no one really does that so most of us would have a degree of insulin resistance by old age I imagine. My 80yo father and his 83yo sister are both in relatively good health and neither have diabetes so I'm thinking of what they must have eaten to get them that far. It would have been as I described above, although my father did drink a bit more alcohol for a few earlier years. He has had high blood pressure for years and I imagine he must have insulin resistance by now. He complains about the belly fat that creeps on when he sits in front of the TV eating popcorn. So it's slowly catching up with him now too I think. But not bad to make it to 80 at least and still going and not be too metabolically deranged. [/QUOTE]
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