There is wisdom in what you say.
Living long isn't my goal, I just want to live well while I am here. Seeing a dog waking from anasthesia it is perfectly clear that they were fine being dead and don't really want to wake up into life again.
But medical studies come over my feed from time to time and I like to think. So I try to work out what they mean.
Getting the waist down, getting plenty of sleep, avoiding stress, building meaningful relationships, these are all highly coorelated with longevity, as is socioeconomic status, and having an active lifestyle.
As for "fast and fried food away from home" being coorelated with longevity I was thinking:
Socializing: people who eat out tend to do so with other people... although I see a lot of drive through loners too.
Economic status: fast food isn't actually cheap.
Ability to leave home: it excludes invalids who can't travel.
Canoia oil: this aligns with all those other studies that imply canoia oil is actually a super healthy food. Therefore:
a) either foods fried in canola oil are healthy, or
b) this study is another devious trick to get us to buy and consume poisonous canola oil.
I'm not going to argue for either of those views because the seed oil argument is not interesting to me.
outside of canola oil fast food is actually fairly balanced in terms of having a decent amount of real food ( meat, chicken, eggs, cheese and even fish if we consider tuna sandwich fast food ) in it.
fast food is better ( even by admission of most of those who, like me, consider it poison ) than food served in schools and hospitals and infinitely better than most diets that people inflict on themselves such as vegan diet
regardless of what you think of canola's health properties its just used because its cheap. but fast food overall isn't as cheap as school or hospital food and cheapness is a better reason to use a food ingredient than superstition ( what Vegans and other diets use ).
so it seems to be 2-fold:
1 - the social aspect you mentioned / ability to go outside etc.
2 - many people eat food that is WORSE
you can think of McDonalds as Twitter. we hate Twitter for a good reason but reality is most other platforms ( like Facebook or BlueSky ) are WORSE
Yeah, fast-food is underrated. Most people eat terribly, at home, and would be better off skipping their bag-o-chips dinner, or their 15th bowl of ramen or cereal, and buying a döner.
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