The causality in many cases probably goes both ways of course, but it’s instructive that many people who have health problems and mobility issues are also obese or extremely obese. Obesity makes you fragile and exacerbates (or causes) many health problems.

I look at all these people who are younger than me talking about how being old is hard, and how your body just mysteriously starts falling apart. And I have no idea what they are going on about because I am 45 and in great shape and I do not experience any of that.

Spurs me on to keep doing what I am doing, seeing 40-year-olds allowing themselves to degrade as if they are 80. Effectively, they are — and it’s sad to see.

“But there’s no way I can not weigh 400 pounds!” Sure, bud, keep believing that right until your early grave.