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Dear Young People, You Have The Rest Of Your Lives To Be Healthy
So do it now!
At the risk of sounding preachy and reflecting the advancing age of a Gen-Xer, I suddenly feel the need to share words of wisdom that I desperately wish I had been privy to during my rumbling days of youth.
Nobody really shares the secret of how getting older isn’t quite the blessing if you’ve spent the best years of your life soaked in alcohol and the grease of foods that are catastrophically high in saturated fat.
We’re told to enjoy the freedom of being young enough to get away with high- stakes pursuits in every area of our existence because the price of our mistakes won’t be nearly as high, since we possess the tempo of being able to flawlessly bounce back.
I can’t count how many times my impossibly slender figure and naturally toned limbs garnered emphatic compliments from strangers and college mates, who all encouraged me to indulge in my high caloric diet with gratitude and pleasure, based on the miracle of an uncanny metabolic system.
In the early days, when it came to alcoholic drinks, my inclination was to copy the actions of my peers, even though I honestly didn’t like the taste of hard liquor.
It wasn’t until my move to New York City, and the eventual settling down into a…
