Great topic, thanks!

Here are a few:

If you want to be slim, pass on the sweets and starches.

Go to bed before ten o'clock.

Go outside every day.

Do your own chores.

Eating at home is nicer than going out.

Don't go to the grocer when you are hungry.

"If the cat has kittens in the oven, that don't make'm biscuits".

Don't forget grandfathers. My grandad would say "sweets make you fat" (sweets=candy for non-British). His weight didn't vary in the 20 years I knew him til his death. And he'd skip meals when he wasn't hungry. I wish I had listened harder!

In a way I am the Grandma- even though I grew up in the city I still remember as a kid feeding grass to the horse that pulled the milk wagon making door to door deliveries. When the weather was cold and the milk was left on the porch, the cream would pop the lid on the glass milk bottles.

There were also home deliveries of veggies which we stored in a cupboard which was screened to the outside allowing air flow.

Everyone was more active because in order to keep warm we had a sawdust burner which meant frequent trips to the basement to reload the burner by shovelling buckets from the storage under the front porch and dumping them in the hopper.

At a fairly early age I moved to the country and raised my own veggies and chickens first, graduating to raising beef cattle and having a milk cow. I made my own butter and cheese (some of my cheese turned out like door stoppers). We also at times had goats, turkeys, ducks, and guinea hens.

I still use Grandma remedies like putting garlic in an ear to control bacterial infection causing earaches. (It works.)

Eating eggs will make you strong and healthy.

Grandma was just that straight up into her 90's.

Depends which Grandma...

Grandma 1 -

1. Cook your eggs in Bacon Grease
2. Save your Bacon Grease
3. Use Butter
4. Enjoy time in the sun regularly
5. Spend time with your family

Grandma 2 -

1. Don't smoke more than 2 packs in a day
2. Drink whiskey, not rum
3. Sometimes dead people will talk to you at night
4. In the hospital the nurses will try to kill you and cook you at night
5. Don't talk to strangers, they want to steal you and put you in their ovens

well, I've never had grandparents, but some of the stuff my mom was saying makes actually sense. When I was saying that I couldn't eat anymore, she would always say "at least finish the meat" but she was also saying "you can't eat franks only, eat the bread as well!" (when I was a toddler/small kid I wanted to eat meat only. good instincts! too bad it wasn't that easy in Poland in the '80s with meat shortages and food rations...).

some other general advice I remember (no idea from whom) is - homey stuff is always better, drinking sour milk for health, heavy cream and butter can be added to anything, meat should be the base of any meal, the healthiest dairy is "straight from the cow" (omg my father loved fresh, just milked, still warm milk), goat milk is the healthiest, noodles makes you fat, "zasmazka" (tiny pieces of bacon fried in lard) should be poured over everything, healthy people go to sleep "with the chickens", go play outside...

but also bread was the base for everything. and what a bread it was... yum... ;-)

Eat your greens

early to bed and early to rise (may not make you wealthy, but makes you healthy and wise)

What my grandmother used to tell me:

Cut your bangs shorter or you'll become blind

Don't look at yourself in the mirror too often or you might see the devil staring back at you

Eat liver to fight anaemia

Drink more red wine to....fight anaemia

Don't use too much vinegar: it eats away red blood cells

My grandma seemed to think that most if not all health problems were due to dirt and insufficient bathing. Heh. PLus there was the old, don't exercise or you will get big muscles and the men won't like you. Let's just say that I didn't get any useful knowledge from grandma..

On preservatives in food: Eat only what rots, and eat it before it does.

Junk food will make you stupid.

hmm.. sortof simple logic. Grandma (like probably most people) believe in the things they grew up with... turns out the things grandma grew up with are closer to a paleo lifestyle than what we have grown up with. The further you move up your ancestoral tree, the more this is going to be true too

eggs fried in butter with bacon.

Dose any one think what the fat was key to the way we ate . Cuz back then (100 years or so) we used good fat with everything !and the bread was nothing like the sh*t we have today ! both my grandma's 90 and 103 granddad's lived 80+ and the other die before I was born ! My point is my grandma's did all the cooking and we ate all kinds of food ! no one was fat. Now my brothers an sisters all dead and I'm older than they were! ! they cook with real butter and fats . No seed oil in they house NONE and NONE in mine all the food in my house is real and it is cook home .. I feel great (-:

lucky you. both my grandmas smoked and ate a horrible diet. my maternal one moreso, which negatively impacted my mom's heath and thus mine.

thanks a lot, gram.

Grandma always had a huge variety of food on the table. She lived until she was 94 and her mother lived to 96 years old.