{"id":118,"date":"2010-01-17T23:15:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T04:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2010-01-21T00:19:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T05:19:12","slug":"healthy-aging-with-nary-a-supplement-11110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Aging, With Nary a Supplement (NYTimes 1\/11\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I contributed the following post to the discussion that followed this NYTimes article \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/12\/health\/12brod.html?ref=health\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/12\/health\/12brod.html?ref=health<\/a> :<\/p>\n<p>This is the best article in the magazine section today (and perhaps the only one to tell the unvarnished truth). My wife and I (in our 60&#8217;s) hike, camp, backpack outdoors, but most days simply walk. We eat relatively healthy (but don&#8217;t obsess over food choices) and take no medications. When I say we take no pills, most friends seem amazed. Sometimes their response feels critical or angry, because they see my behavior as implicit criticism of their lifestyle.\u00a0 Living healthy doesn&#8217;t mean you don&#8217;t get sick &#8212; I&#8217;m getting over a month of viral bronchitis. I&#8217;m usually surrounded by many young people, both healthy and sick, and we all get sick at times.<\/p>\n<p>See Comment for my responses to two related NYTimes articles regarding healthy living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I contributed the following post to the discussion that followed this NYTimes article \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/12\/health\/12brod.html?ref=health : This is the best article in the magazine section today (and perhaps the only one to tell the unvarnished truth). My wife and I (in our 60&#8217;s) hike, camp, backpack outdoors, but most days simply walk. We eat relatively healthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}