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While it's pretty obvious you should live a healthy life, sadly, life will also throw things your way that no amount of lifestyle can protect you from. Taking

• enraged_camel 14y ago
  >>Taking care of yourself is 50% lifestyle and 50% luck, and unfortunately that split shifts unfavorably with every passing year. Ailments are inevitable, no matter what you eat, or how much exercise you do. While some things are definitely out of your control - you may get hit by a drunk driver tomorrow and be incapacitated, for example - your lifestyle can protect you from a lot of the randomness out there. I would say the percentage in the Western world is more like 95% to 5% [1]. You mention ailments, but ever since I started exercising and eating right several years ago, I haven't gotten sick at all beyond some headaches here and there, and one instance of food poisoning. Before that happened, I would catch cold on a regular basis because my immune system was weak. [1]Now, this would probably be different if we were living in, say, Congo, where the environment is a lot more chaotic and individuals have a lot less control over their own well-being.