My father-in-law was a meat and potatoes kind of guy for his entire life, lived on bacon grease, and he died at 89 years, 4 months. My mother tried very hard to watch fat, cholesterol, all that stuff, bought low-fat foods ... and lived to 89 years, 11 months. There you go, it's so much worth the effort to eke out those additional seven months. Maybe. ^-^