You may get junk mail for retirees and discounts for Senior Citizens, but you are not "elderly" as you already know. You're young at heart AND in your lifestyle.

LOL - the way you emphasize eating sugar whenever you choose, as opposed to following Glucose Goddess and her book Glucose Revolution - to me, her findings make perfect sense. Eat a veggie for fiber and glucose-stabilization first, THEN eat your waffles/pancakes/muffins for breakfast. I'm ever amazed at the resistance I encounter when quoting the latest findings. Another one from Mayo Clinic makes sense: cancer patients, fast a day or two (water ony) before and after chemo.

You're still writing, anyway, which is more than I'm doing, because I have abandoned hope of being heard (much less heeded), and in another hundred years or less, nobody will remember or care - and yes, i ** AM ** trying to climb out of this black hole of self-doubt and defeatism!

Off to look at more Hubble telescope images of stellar nurseries, because stars are born, and stars die, and all the dumb things I've ever done will implode along with them. Broken down to the molecular level, all my impurities will vanish, and all shall be well!