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Originally Posted by mg_2204  And what a shock indeed!
My mother had Type 2 diabetes for about 20 years. She had an appalling lifestyle like you wouldn't believe it.... |
My father was an athlete all his life. He looked like a short boxer, and was good with his fists in the hard scrabble neighborhood of his youth. Growing up I learned to swim from his buddy, a pro wrestler named Tony Altimari, aka the Italian stallion. When he retired, my father went back to his old passion, speed skating, and would blow past the now middle age friends of my youth, and their even slower teen agers, at the local rink.
He still died way too early, of a cancer, 2 years ago. This was a man who took care to stay fit. Even the athletes among us are subject to the whims of nature , it's not all nurture.
But I'm with you. i try to take are and slant the odds in my favor.
--G
