athena53
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+1.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle helps stack the odds in your favor, at least until you are ready to meet your maker (a heart only has so many beats), but the healthy lifestyle is not guarantee.
Earlier in the year I was doing fine that I helped a brother move, but a few days after I was hobbling around for a day or two with a cane. Back to about 99% okay now, but a reminder one can be feeling great one moment then terrible in a flash.
I agree with both- when I bought travel insurance for our trip to Iceland, it was partly due to DH's health issues, but I was well aware that my propensity to go on more physically demanding expeditions, scramble up nearby hills to get a better picture, put me more at risk for accidents. DH also had a friend with insanely healthy habits who developed oat cell carcinoma (pretty much incurable) in her 30s.
Still, I used to hang out on a board for people trying to get into shape/lose weight and the success stories were really heartening. Many were able to stop meds for diabetes and high cholesterol with the blessing of their doctor; for others, knee and back pain subsided when they were no longer carrying the extra weight. I also know from my work in insurance that obesity complicates many medical conditions, makes surgery more dangerous, etc. Look up "co-morbidity".
Stuff happens but there are many things we CAN control to keep medical costs down.