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Health is Wealth: The Alkaline Paleo Diet for Prosperity
My Irish Marine communications engineer Grandfather drank, fought in World War 1, laughed, played cards, checkers and smoked with friends. He worked a lifetime for American Telephone, saved and retired well. He played the banjo, pinochle and ukelele. He stopped drinking and smoking after he had surgery for intestinal cancer. He enjoyed fishing with his grandchildren, moved to Florida with his lovely wife Grace, drove safely and lived into his eighties.
My Swiss Army textile engineer grandfather boxed, played chess, concert violin, pinochle and had remarkable penmanship his entire life. He married a beautiful schoolteacher named Bess. He owned and ran a manufacturing company, the largest employer in town. He saved, invested in natural resources and served on two bank boards and the School Board during the Depression. He belonged to both Freemason rites, the Scottish and York and advanced to higher degree.
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He was exposed to mustard gas in World War I in the Battle of the Marne and had lifelong skin problems. He drank alcohol and smoked infrequently, ate fresh whole food, not ersatz. He built igloos, swam and played catch and chess with his grandchildren after being widowed, moved to Florida by himself, drove safely and lived to 86 until he fell and broke his hip and passed on, as his wife had done almost three decades earlier.
My Navy electrical engineer father was a pistol sharpshooter 90 day wonder officer out of college during World War II. He played chess, golf, the organ and pinochle. He was in the Battles of Normandy and Okinawa, then exposed to radiation at ground zero Hiroshima at the end of World War II. He built two homes with my mother, fished, kept aquariums, played chess, taught craftsman skills and occasionally swam with his children after working hard on vacation. He was Scoutmaster while she was Den Mother. He was a generous Scottish Rite freemason of high degree. He transferred from Philadelphia to Detroit to run the MidWest region of a Go-Go Sixties Automotive Assembly Line Power Supply Equipment Company in Detroit.
He saved his money and bought natural resource stocks like his father.
He gave up smoking cigars and pipes when I was a little boy. I saw him take two drinks my entire life, one at a wedding.
After retirement in Mexico and Arkansas with his wife, he had aggressive prostate cancer that metastasized. He treated it with aggressive chemo, hormones, radiation and surgery and long suffered serious side effects.
