obviously there are exceptions to every rule, someone as smart as you should know that. its about reducing risks. i may damn well die of a heart attack at 35…but it won’t be b/c i did it to myself via combo meals and sitting on my fat ass. i realize there are people like your great uncle…good for him…on the flip side i have many relatives who have eaten, smoked, and/or drank themselves to an early death in some way shape or form. not gonna be me. the rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc (all fatal to varying degrees) skyrocketing in this country are not a fucking coincidence…of course you have some control over your health.

and you’re right, when i said i workout everyday, i meant monday through friday. however i have gone months at a time where i worked out 7 days a week.

Gastric bypass? That’s the old B.C. Inabinet procedure. Unfortunately, he cheated on the diet and dropped dead within two weeks. Don’t know if your Clempson knowledge goes back that far.

Had a couple of dates with his daughter this past summer.

I don’t workout every day, anybody who says they workout 7 days a week is lying, but I work out more than most in this country, which is not saying a great deal,

but your genes, good or bad, are going to be much more influential in what happens to you down the road, so take comfort in all your hours in the gym when you are diagnosed with something anyway.

Case in point: I have a great-uncle who smoked 2 packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day until 50, at which point he switched over to filtered cigarettes, and now is down to a pack a day, at age 95.

Man has nothing wrong with him but circulatory problems.

I will certainly go before him, yet would like to think I have led a much healthier lifestyle to this point, and should continue to.

But, if you truly think you are in control of what happens to your health, you are deluding yourself.

And Godspeed to Larry Smith, a Cradle-man and fellow native of the “Homeland” (northwest Ohio).