The goal of our community is to disprove the myth that with age, automatically come a plethora of health problems and debilities.   We also hope to disprove the myth that a healthful lifestyle that includes both aerobic and strength training exercise is overly intrusive into one's life and difficult to maintain.   And finally, we hope to disprove the myth that conversion to a healthful lifestyle is extraordinarily difficult and painful.   If not already experiencing it, we will also discover that once the addiction to the typical American diet (now spreading worldwide) of ultraprocessed food loaded with fat, sugar, salt and additives is overcome, the healthful diet will taste far better than the unhealthful one.

We also want to disprove what we read everywhere, including health letters, that as we age, we will require stair lifts, alert buttons, adult diapers, walk-in bath tubs, motorized chairs that flip you upright--and that we will have to sell (if we are lucky enough to own one) our 2-story house and replace it with a one-story one.   Those beliefs and writings result from great commercial forces that promote the so-called American diet (incredibly unhealthful) to which most of our population has become addicted, a sedentary lifestyle (incredibly unhealthful) encouraged by limitless and insatiable TV and social media, as well as cultural forces that encourage being less active as we age and the belief that chronic disease and frailty are inevitable, no matter what we do.

We must fight the ubiquitous promotion of "As we get older..." phrase followed by a nontruth such as we lose our muscles, we lose our immune system, we lose our bone strength, we lose our mobility and finally, we lose our brains!   The reality is that some things, like our immune system do decline with age, but comparatively little compared to the loss if we are sedentary and eat an unhealthful diet (far from the Mediterranean diet) over a long period of time.

This website will provide the experiences of those who have overcome the typical American diet and how it was accomplished, including my own experience.   And from an evolutionary point of view, the better-tasting diet must be more healthful than the unhealthful one; otherwise, we wouldn't have survived as a species.

This website does not push pills, medications, juicers, magic formulas, fad diets, exotic foods from remote locations, recipes or supplements. Of course, if you have a medically diagnosed nutrient deficiency that can be cured with a supplement, you should take it.   This website also does not push particular exercise regimens or the need to spend three hours in the gym every day, or to run marathons.   It will, however, let you know our individual experiences, including my own, that may be helpful.

I, Harvey Liss, being one example, at 83+ years old (in 2025), along with other members of this community, including people of any gender, believe that a healthful, natural diet of ordinary, pure food, and significant, though modest aerobic and strength exercise almost every day is an absolute requirement for a long, healthy life.  And without it, chronic disease and debility is virtually guaranteed, although there are surely rare exceptions.  Merely counting steps, although helpful, is insufficient for maximum benefit unless they are brisk steps, and they must be accompanied by strength training, too.

The goal of this community is to relate the experiences of us older folks who are living a healthy life so others will come to understand that the sedentary lifestyle is cultural.   And it along with the poor diet (the too-typical American diet that is becoming worldwide) that has resulted from diabolically clever marketing, almost certainly ensures chronic disease, pain, immobility and cognitive impairment.  This healthy community, including those on the road to health, by growing in numbers, and by growing old and exploding the myths of old age, can change the world by hugely reducing healthcare expenditures while greatly improving quality-of-life.

I encourage you, of any age, to join our community by completing our Lifestyle Survey (tab on main menu for lifestyle and health questionnaire) that will be used solely for research purposes to prove our hypothesis that getting old does not automatically bring with it disease and debility.

My hypothesis, born of my own research and experience, that a perfectly healthful lifestyle over much of one's life, or at least for many years, almost totally prevents chronic disease (other than those caused by genetic abnormalities) is an extrapolation of an ever-increasing body of evidence, along with evolutionary precepts. And there can never be a randomized, controlled, scientific study that proves that the perfectly healthful lifestyle will prevent virtually all diseases typically associated with people who are getting older, because no one will volunteer to possibly be assigned to the group eating a crappy diet or not exercising for many years.     Nonetheless, supporting documents from recognized journals that are highly suggestive are in the Resources tab of this website.

To a long, healthy life,
Harvey Liss