Curious Cook: The marginal decade

The marginal decade refers to the last 10 years of life, but most people can experience a healthier marginal decade if they have a good diet, exercise and sleep well. — MARCUS AURELIUS/Pexels

This is not an easy subject to write about, especially as it is a certainty that some people reading this are already in their marginal decade. Every person will arrive at their marginal decade eventually, though the definition is a little complicated. In general, the concept of the marginal decade is not new or modern and was already implied by the poet Milton in 1667 in Paradise Lost, when he wrote “The childhood shows the man, As the morning shows the day”.

In 1941, a study into human diseases had noted that “disease in adulthood is often brought about by the cumulative effects over a long period of time of many pathological conditions, many incidents, some of which take place and are even perceived in infancy”.