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by imiric 295 days ago
Those are outliers. It doesn't mean that these foods are healthy for the average person.

There are documented cases of people living well into their 80s while having smoked cigarettes since their teens. Same thing. It doesn't invalidate the millions of deaths each year that are directly caused by tobacco.

Also, wealth plays a larger role in living longer than genetics. It gives access to the best medicine and physicians money can buy, which are not accessible to the average person.

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Please tell us what FDA approved medications Buffett has been on for the past 70 years that aren't available to the rest of us and have allowed him to cope with ice cream for breakfast every morning.
Being wealthy and powerful doesn't constrain you to the health care system of a single country. It also allows you to be at the top of any priority lists for treatments and interventions.

And, as a sibling comment mentions, marketing plays a big role with these individuals, so it's impossible to ascertain the truth of their claims.

When people discuss the impacts of wealth on health, they're almost always talking about assessments and procedures, not prescriptions.