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My dad suggested there are three events that turn an individual from "able to be home" to assisted care (which is very expensive).

1) Change in ability to walk, which triggers 2) Inability to take care of and feed themselves, which triggers a slew of medications to try to combat 3) Inability to go to bathroom by themselves

Keep people moving. Build strength early - strength training is great (people begin losing strength as early as 50's and it dominos). Eat more healthily earlier in life and continue (when a person cannot cook for themselves, they tend to eat high salt, high fat, frozen foods - which becomes less healthy). Also, look into assisted policy care insurance.

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Agree with you on everything, except frozen foods. I am in my mid 30s. I like to cook and try to eat healthy. I have read at many places on the internet that frozen vegetables in some occasions are healthier than the ones I can at the supermarket- because they are flash frozen, retaining most nutritional value vegetables stay out in shipping and shelves far too long losing nutritional value. Also that they tend to be picked before their time to accommodate for shipping and shelving while frozen vegetables are picked ripe for freezing.

Frozen processed foods like pizzas, ready to eat foods loaded with preservatives are bad as one can imagine.

It was counterintuitive to me that frozen veggies can be better than fresh looking ones from supermarket. Same goes with tomatoes from supermarket shelves versus tomatoes in a tin - apparently the tin ones have better nutrients because they were more ripe when they went into the tin, while supermarket tomatoes were picked well before they were ripe.

I read that as "frozen foods that are high in fat and salt".

Your interpretation is what I meant. Above poster does have a point about vegetables frozen being more healthy.

I was eating frozen pizzas quite regularly in my twenties and thirties. At 32 I was diagnosed with pre-hypertension. The doctor was suggesting pills. I went home and evaluated my sodium intake. Those pizzas are insane with the sodium. I stopped eating them and haven't had one since. Shortly after, my blood pressure went back to normal/good levels. Ten years later I'm still healthy...and eating much better than I did when I was younger.

Pizza can be a downward spiral- huge amount of carbs, salt and cheese in a single slice, and most people eat multiple slices.

https://xkcd.com/1616/

It depends on how you prepare the food too- many type of vegetables have different nutrition content when eaten raw rather than cooked.

I know this is another information rabbit hole. But, I’d love to know what happens to nutrients with various forms of cooking and combinations with various cooking elements like salt, pepper, chillies, turmeric, cumin etc. A purely scientific approach to cooking that experiments to improve commonly used recipes for nutritional value would be amazing.

See if you can access food science papers through your library.

The best way to cook vegetables, according to research papers: https://youtu.be/8aIyb4atRjk

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