Holy shit there's so much ableism in these comments. @op you apparently stepped on some toes with this hot take
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You sound like you would enjoy the book, The Limits to Growth and its progress checking updates. The models suggest we're in for a very bad time by 2040. The runup seems to have already begun. The neat thing is that the book doesn't even include climate related catastrophe. They're just bonus add on.
Author name, please?
It was written by multiple MIT professors sponsored by an organization called The Club of Rome. I remember that there were two authors named Meadows. Subsequent updates were by additional people. It has a lot of mathematical models with different parameter assumptions. The 30 year update was by Green, I think.
You could live until 100 if you take care. You can still eat what you want in moderation.
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Lame. Turn all that negative energy into something useful.
Well with the climate wars coming I want to be in peak shape to trample everyone else down and take my place as a warlord over as much territory as possible. Can't do that if you're out of shape
Can't plan on "this incarnation - that incarnation" level without becoming conscious enough, and that mostly requires hell lot of work, which requires healthy stable body among other things.
But back to the source problem: there are still people who are not toxic. Seems like you are too, and you just staying alive does matter. Live that long for others who come after you, if not for anything else
I think I'd be perfectly fine living up to the age of... idk, 50, as long as I'm living happy and as long as I die happy and painlessly. That is literally all that matters to me.
If your life is so miserable, why would you want to live a long one? You'd rather end it as soon as possible because it's the ultimate escape from horrors. It's why when given the opportunity to have immortality, hypothetically, I always, and I mean ALWAYS, say no.
As for health itself, well... it's your body, do whatever you want with it. I don't care. My only advice is be careful out there when you do get ill.
But if you get fat you have to buy new clothes
I'm healthier and more fit than I've ever been before.
Why in the world would you purposely let your health suffer just because you don't like the government?! What?!
The thing is, when you live in an unhealthy manner, you won't just live with minor symptoms of it, before your body just has enough and dies immediately. You will have to face the long time consequences for decades. If you decide to do so at the age of 17 or 20, and find a romantic partner later, you might see things differently by the time you notice how your health degraded.
I'm obviously not trying to get you to live healthy - you do you. But in my experience, not caring about your future self will just make it even harder when it becomes your present self - and on top of that global recession, famine, wars, diseases and whatnot now you will also have to deal with an achy foot, constant coughing or crippling depression. For a long time.