I can certainly understand what you are saying and where you are coming from.
But the average life expectancy is about 80 years, much of life’s challenges for many who wish to have a long healthy quality of life is overcoming environmental and genetic maladies, that alone determines life span and or quality of life until death.
Some people beat the system with just the right mix of genes playing a perfect role for the rest of us nutrition can and does play a key role in delaying the onset of family health issues and even in families without those issues prevent genetic damage from unhealthy eating and lifestyle habits.
Most simple example is excessive drinking and smoking, food is more insidious, a slow process breaking down your health.
I would like to think I am living proof of my statement, (so far anyway)
Im the only male on my side of the family that at my age so far has not had multiple heart attacks, coronary by-pass surgeries, stents, diabetes or death by heart attack. The family history is a grim one, they all die from what I mentioned, dad died in his driveway at 69 years old. Decades later, another family member same aliments but modern technology has prevented him from dying even this year at least two times, other than that he does live a quality life but the day will come when that wont be enough.
Fast forward to me, where the others have for decades had these aliments before my current age, I still to not have diabetes, I do have just diagnosed in 2021 heart disease though minimum blockage, so little it would not show up on a nuclear stress test. A nuclear stress test will only show blockages and plaque once it reaches 60 to 70% blockage.
Because of family history, I had the gold standard performed. A cardiac angiogram. They insert wires through your arteries and inject dye near your heart, monitors in the room show your veins and how clear they are, its REALLY awesome, you are awake but drugged, I still remember at one point seeing the wall of monitors and the veins around my heart what seemed like dangling in midair unattached to my heart, this will show plaque and blockages up to as little as 20%. If they saw anything much greater during the procedure they can right then and there open it up and install a stent.
Ok, to cut to the chase. It seems I have the same bad genes but I did one thing different than the others. I REALLY try to eat well, tons of fruits, fish 3 times a week, lean meats all the time, I limit everything bad that I can and I try to stay at my BMI. This is something none of the others have ever done and I would like to think I am living proof that with proper diet you can delay possibly until you die of another cause besides family history by eating properly. IT REALLY is a challenge, I look at it almost like a sport now. I know I have plaque up to 20% in my heart views, that is considered nothing, every other test on my heart is very strong, I recently had an ablation but that was to correct a electrical issue with the heart timing which can affect up to 50% of the population at some point and has nothing to do with the plumbing side.
I just had it done a month ago, no longer need to take heart rhythm drug, still go to intense workouts at the gym, in fact hit a record for me and my age just a few days ago, I peaked my heart rate in the 60 minute class at 177 BPM with no discomfort. Many of my workouts I run my heart at 140 to 160 BPM for up to 45 minutes our of the 60 minute class.
I too have a mother in law who can eat anything, getting close to 100 years old and you would think she is in her 70s or early 80s... but something was different back then and to many even now. They do not eat processed foods, they actually cook their own.
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