Have you eaten real Italian food? The best food I've ever eaten was in Italy. Farm fresh ingredients of a very high quality. I'd happily live on that diet all the time to be honest.

I think you might have bad sources. Those 70-90 year old Italians are hiking around the mountains, walking everywhere, and hanging out with their friends and family every day. Obviously not everyone (it's the smoking, mostly) but it's crazy how high quality later life is in Italy for many many people.

Your standard for good quality life is significantly lower than mine. My standard is surfing, playing football in full size stadium, never seeing a doctor and taking no pill to the very last day I am breathing. Going for a walk in the woods on some days just doesn't cut it for me. It works out for me so far. I am old and experienced enough to not care how much longer I have left in this world. Now, the rest of my life, is just pure enjoyment of all the things that I already know well. My only hope and wish for the future is that one of the random mornings, no matter how many from now, I will not wake up after suffering a stroke in my sleep. I am not being original in this. Just copying from the real life of one person from an older generation whom I had a pleasure of knowing.

I have. Before I found what was making me forever sick and weak - I have eaten it a lot, and enjoyed it at that time. The thing is: plant and milk based foods in Italy are high quality. Meats, both raw and cured, are literally mostly rotten. Intentionally, to achieve a weird taste, but that does not make them good by any measure. So you can skip the meats, but the problem is that anything plant based has no place in human diet. All carbs, plant oils (except coconut and palm oils), and fiber are just narcotics. So high quality and delici]ous (for the elaborate taste of an addict) cocaine is still cocaine. If you eat any of those ]tyi]]y ,]]hings, in cold climates you will nto[]]i[]i[t luastu withit a doctor and aome pollts foe ]