Meanwhile, I've been vaccinated up the wazoo (have had both Pfizer and Moderna shots, several boosters, the Novavax vaccine, and the flu vaccine, as well as TDAP) over the last 4 years.
I look at them spouting anti-Pfizer nonsense, and respond "Hey, I see you have a Pfizer asthma inhaler, and a Pfizer brand EpiPen too. I guess you'll be getting rid of those too then since they are made by the same company you were just complaining about." They often get wrapped up in their own pretzel logic, start hemming-and-hawing, and then go off on tangential rants. I just stand there, look at them, and grin.
I'm also in my 50s and exercise regularly, every day. I walk about 4 or 5 miles per day. I mean WALK. Not leisurely stroll. Walk with a purpose. Walk to where my heart rate reaches over 120bpm and sustains it for at least a minute or more, and I develop a nice sweat after 15 to 20 minutes. Aerobic exercise walking.
I still eat fried/fast foods, but because of my active work and exercise, I pretty much burn through all that.
People have asked me how I'm not over 300lbs eating all that fast food and drinking all that sugary soda/tea, especially at my age. I tell them "because I almost always burn it off. I also exercise every day before work." Like a pro bike rider [for example Tour de France] consumes upward of 10,000 calories per day eating a lot of carbs and starches, they burn it off through hours of bike riding. Thus, fats, sugars, and those processed chemicals and preservatives, stay in my body for maybe two hours at most. I burn through them, or they exit quickly after entering my body.
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