How is Queen Elizabeth in such good health?

Question

I know she has the best healthcare in England, but there has been a lot of inbreeding in the Royal Family over the years and there have been several genetic conditions that were have supposed to have come from Queen Victoria, such as diabetes, haemophilia, etc. and inbreeding can create new diseases.

Answer 1

diseases can skip a generation x*x

Answer 2

The English overall have very good health, and live long lives. Look at how old the Queen Mum got to be.  We have English friends who are in their late 80s and still getting around, been married for 62 years.  It might be all that tea they drink...or just the genetics.

Answer 3

Taking beauty tips from Countess Elizabeth Bathory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countess_El...

Answer 4

If uou had all that money and all those people cooking for you and people telling those people what to cook for you and lots of people making decisions for you ,you would be in good health too.

Answer 5

I thought she died a couple of years ago. Or was that Queen Mary, her mum?

Answer 6

Her mother, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon,Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was very healthy. Many women in the Royal family lived to great age;the aforementioned Queen Mother lived to be 101 and Princess Alice lived to be 102.They do allow "new blood" in;and allowing "new blood" in isn't a guarantee that genetic abnormalities won't be passed on because even "new blood "can carry the genetic traits. Princess Anne and her first husband Mark Phillips shared a genetic trait that they both underwent medical testing to make sure it wouldn't be a detriment to any offspring they would have.

Answer 7

Im glad she is, shes the best queen ever :D unlike the queen of Netherland allowing drugs n all the chaos. GOD Bless the QUEEN!!.

Answer 8

shes royalty she has the best people to take care of her in england

Answer 9

How do you know she doesn't hve any of those diseases? Maybe she just doesn't let the the public know. Besides, when you don't touch anything or do much of anything exept sight see, wave to the subjects, etc., there isn't much chance to get sick!

Answer 10

Good genes (remember, her mother lived to be 101 years old) and the best health care available.

The alleged "inbreeding" hasn't been a common feature of European royalty for centuries.  Elizabeth is married to her 3rd cousin, and that's about as close as it gets these days.

Answer 11

interracial s*x

Answer 12

What can I say, shes uber.

Answer 13

I imagine that her good health comes from her mother's side of the family (proof that marrying outside of royal circles is a good thing).

Answer 14

They don't let people know what is going on behind closed doors!

Answer 15

She was fortunate that her father ,George VI  married when he was the Duke of York and only second in line to the throne so he was allowed to choose his own wife and he chose a Scottish woman who was only very distantly related and had some better genes.

His elder brother David was the heir to the throne but he was forced to abdicate  after he became Edward VIII and wanted to marry a divorced woman.

So the Queen had a better genetic start in life than most of her predecessors but some of her children appear to be throwbacks.

Answer 16

She eats yogurt every day.

Answer 17

The Queen looks after herself. She knows that people plan long in advance and go to great expense to see her, so she does everything she can to stay healthy.

- she travels with her own water, bottled at Balmoral

- she never eat shellfish or seafood when on a state visit (too easy to get food poisoning)

- she wear gloves to protect her hands from all the hands she shakes, but also to reduce transmission of infection

- she gets a good night's sleep

- she drinks moderately

- she exercises. I don't mean she has a gym membership, but like all people of her generation, she gets outdoors and walks, she rides (less and less, and not on state occasions like the Trooping of the Colour), and then when you consider the size of her homes and palaces, it's a workout to get from one section to another.

It's called being sensible.

Answer 18

The Queen really isn't the product of "inbreeding" ...her parents were completely unrelated. She has always watched her weight, eats simple wholesome foods, and drinks little. She has always exercised, and uses homoeopathy (a type of alternative medicine) to ward off disease. It seems to be working well, since she is extremely healthy at 81.

Answer 19

Queen Elizabeth's mother lived to be more than one hundred years old.  The members of the Queen's immediate family who died at relatively young ages (her father King George VI and her sister Princess Margaret) were smokers and died of diseases caused by smoking.  Otherwise, longevity seems to run in the family.  Prince Philip seems to be remarkably healthy, too.  Queen Victoria's daughters were carriers of the hemophilia, but since Queen Elizabeth is evidently not a carrier, none of her male descendants have inherited the condition, so it has had no direct effect upon her family.  I think that she and her non-smoking offspring are health-conscious and that their lives reflect the philosophy.

Answer 20

she's the richest woman in the world.  she can afford the best health care.

Answer 21

She has had he doctors pumping her full of preservatives so she will be around for a long time to outlive Charles, after all, neither Her Majesty (nor her ghost) would want to see  Camilla as Queen!!

Answer 22

If I sat on my *** all day on a throne, I'd be in good health too.