How do you explain this guy?
I came across this in the news today:
A 105-year-old Southampton man has revealed the secret of his longevity - a full English breakfast every morning.
Great grandfather Douglas Terrey reckons he’s eaten a fry-up every morning for 91 years - about 33,215 hearty breakfasts, reports Sky News. The retired engineer eats four rashers of bacon, a sausage, two eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding and three slices of toast each morning.
And in a nod to healthy eating, he also wolfs down a bowl of cereal. “I have been eating a fried breakfast for years and years now,” he said. “I think this kind of food is wholesome - like the food we used to have in the old days.”
Mr Terrey, of Marchwood, near Southampton, Hants, began his routine of a fry-up a day when he joined the Army as a dispatch boy, aged 13. “When I got my first job in the Army I would go to work on a good breakfast and I knew I wouldn’t get hungry,” he said.
105 years old and he's been eating this same fried concoction for the last 91 years. Seriously, WTF? Four rashers of bacon. I don't know what a rasher is but it sure doesn't sound good. Do we have it all wrong? How did this guy make it past the age of 50?
A 105-year-old Southampton man has revealed the secret of his longevity - a full English breakfast every morning.
Great grandfather Douglas Terrey reckons he’s eaten a fry-up every morning for 91 years - about 33,215 hearty breakfasts, reports Sky News. The retired engineer eats four rashers of bacon, a sausage, two eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding and three slices of toast each morning.
And in a nod to healthy eating, he also wolfs down a bowl of cereal. “I have been eating a fried breakfast for years and years now,” he said. “I think this kind of food is wholesome - like the food we used to have in the old days.”
Mr Terrey, of Marchwood, near Southampton, Hants, began his routine of a fry-up a day when he joined the Army as a dispatch boy, aged 13. “When I got my first job in the Army I would go to work on a good breakfast and I knew I wouldn’t get hungry,” he said.
105 years old and he's been eating this same fried concoction for the last 91 years. Seriously, WTF? Four rashers of bacon. I don't know what a rasher is but it sure doesn't sound good. Do we have it all wrong? How did this guy make it past the age of 50?
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Permalink Reply by april on -
Too bad the article doesn't report any current health problems or his activity level, which I'm just going to assume is at the very least fairly decent since if he were completely sedentary, he'd be dead. Also, it's not mentioned what he eats, if at all, the remainder of the day.
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Permalink Reply by Matt on
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Everyone is different. My curiosity is how old the guy woud live if he had been eating a healthy diet all this time ;)
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Permalink Reply by watermelon on -
haha I'm right there with you side by side.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Burt on -
There are 6 billion people on the planet. Let´s say at least 1 billion of them are on a ´western´diet. So 1 of them makes it to 105 ( If that story is true and not a set up by the food industry). So 1 in a billion people make to 105 years of age. Not good odds! You take your chance and go back to cooked Charlie boy. I want to live to 205 not a measly 105!
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Permalink Reply by Charles on -
I tend to agree. The word "luck" is thrown around far too much. If you win the lotto, you're lucky, but this guy was definitely doing something measurable to get to the age that he has.
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Permalink Reply by Jef on -
Its gotta be the positive attitude. I know a 99 year old woman who is always positive and upbeat. She eats microwave dinners now for about 5 years since her husband died but lives on her own still, taking care of herself, except her son helps her with some financial stuff. She's real careful not to tire herself out, reads and learns a lot still, etc.
One time she told me about microwaves, "they wouldn't make them if they were dangerous." I'm sure she's used one for at least 20 years, since I met her, and probably before that.
She eats moderately too, not too much, not addicted to anything.
But I've always felt its her positive attitude. Both her daughters died of cancer already, and her husband died, and she's still upbeat.
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Permalink Reply by Kendra on -
My first reaction was that the breakfast is not the secret to his longevity, but that he has lived that long despite his eating habits. I also wonder what else he eats and how his health is.
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Permalink Reply by Joel on -
My brother told me there was a 100+ year old man in the library in Milwaukee talking about his secrets, and he said to keep your brain always learning and active and experiencing, drop feelings of guilt and jealousy, etc. Always remain in a state of awe and wonder, and flow. Be a sperhero and a role model to people, and a subtle influencer,
Personally I think Viktoras etc. spends too much energy fighting and opposing, and this is almost a grumpy old man mindstate, could be a sign of calcification or hardening.
Nanobacteria/Calcification (TheBestDayEver) is huge new issue that needs to be tackled...
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Permalink Reply by Bunny Berry on -
I would think that this man's longevity is because of a combination of factors. Stress level, genetics, smoking cigarettes, and what he ate for the rest of the day after the fried breakfast being a few. Also, his diet sounds really consistent. I think the body likes consistency. At least his bowels knew what to expect every morning. :)
What we eat is definitely only one piece of the longevity puzzle, I believe. I live here in the South, where everything is deep fried, and I see birthdays on the news daily about people in my area that live to be over 100.
I think the key to a long happy life is having a dog. There's nothing like having a dog!
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