My Grandparents lived to their 80s and ate pork,eggs,used lard for baking and cooking.But I think the difference was it was all produced and prepared right on their farm.No additives,artifical flavors.The fields were fertilized with manure from the animals that were raised there.The chickens roamed free.Oh I can just taste 1 of my GM biscuits with home cured ham and fresh eggs,also a biscuit with homemade syrup and fresh butter.My father made syrup for people in about 5 or 6 Counties around us when I was a little girl.He would let me go with him sometimes and he would give me a cup of the skimmings.Syrup making was a very exact process.The cane had to be just at the right stage and the fire under the cooker had to be just right.You also had to keep that mule walking at the right pace.