{"id":33712,"date":"2021-06-24T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T05:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=33712"},"modified":"2021-06-24T15:59:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T05:59:35","slug":"cause-of-death-in-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=33712","title":{"rendered":"Cause Of Death In Elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Cause_Of_Death_In_Elderly-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Cause Of Death In Elderly\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Cause_Of_Death_In_Elderly-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Cause_Of_Death_In_Elderly.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From my experience the problem has a few facets. I recall a quote &#8220;Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The same might be said in a large measure about health.<\/p>\n<p>When you talk to people about improving their health and longevity most are not interested or pay lip service.<\/p>\n<p>When my wife Julie was spending $2,000,000 a year on clothes (fortunately I did not have to pay the bill, she was a fashion buyer for 25 shops) one time a supplier held up a garment for her and said, &#8220;This is for the fashion victims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Julie queried him and he responded, &#8220;A &#8216;fashion victim&#8217; is someone who will buy the latest fashion item regardless of whether or not it looks good on them or not.&#8221; Remember muffin tops?<\/p>\n<p>Most people are taste victims, they eat what tastes good, regardless of whether or not it is destructive to their health. Sugar is addictive. Apparently 8 times more addictive than cocaine. If you want to be successful we should set up a Sugarholics Anonymous for the taste victims!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my experience the problem has a few facets. I recall a quote &#8220;Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.&#8221; The same might be said in a large measure about health. When you talk to people about improving their health and longevity most are not interested or pay &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=33712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cause Of Death In Elderly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33714,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33712\/revisions\/33714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}