Hard to know until you’re in that position. When I was 16 , I wanted to be dead by 40. Clearly, I changed my mind when I got there.
It would depend exactly what I could achieve in “a state of poor health” - is that disabled and confined to bed in which case I’d go for good health until 90.
Or is it “has to take medication but fit enough to potter around” in which case I’d probably go for 100 please.
I think it is a question which needs a lot more info 
I don’t think your source leads to the conclusion you drew; if anything, it’s the opposite. The Lancet’s claim is that we can improve life expectancy most effectively by concentrating on younger people and encouraging them to adopt healthier ways of living. That way, we’ll increase the overall LE figure.
I understand your point of view, but it still seems to me one of those unnecessary hypothetical questions, like Who would win in a fight between Taylor Swift and a lobster. (Here’s an answer, by the way: Who Would Win in a Fight Analyzer: Enter Any Two People)
Ah, got you. That’s always been the case really. It leapt up rapidly when we pretty much eradicated widespread child mortality and as more health conditions become treatable the trend should, in theory, continue. In general, every year you survive increases your overall life expectancy figure.
Thinking aloud, I wonder if that’s why healthy life expectancy is dropping, with people surviving illnesses and events that would previously have killed them but still having a detrimental effect on quality of life.
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This is very recent -
UK healthy life expectancy falls by two years in past decade - BBC News
I think that’s right, people survive but are affected in an obvious way sometimes all their life, but also sometimes comorbidities resulting from those events swoop in much later, just as their general health declines a bit.
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The reason I put the quote in quotation marks was because it was a quote. A quote from the author of the report.
It would help if you read what I’d written!
You claimed there was a
That “theory” is nonsense and has no basis in fact.
You quoted, in order to support your “theory”, something from the Lancet which does make sense:
The report you quoted does not support your “theory”.
I hope that’s clear to you.
I really don’t understand why you feel the need to score points and constantly check and undermine things I post.
But it’s your problem not mine.
I hope that’s clear.
Don’t feel special! Discussion tends to happen on forums. You don’t need to make it personal.
I see Richmond in Surrey has the highest HLE. I used to live near there and it’s clear why, there are many, many wealthy people there.
They also drink avocado smoothies, eat tofu, and go to the gym a lot in their Range Rovers. 
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I eat tofu!! As a vegetarian, it’s one of my main sources of protein. Though I only have a bike, not a car and, my goodness what a waste of an avocado.
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Good for you - I have nothing against tofu-eaters, I was just using a comedy stereotype…
To be honest, tofu is incredibly bland, you have to do a lot to it to make it taste ok. And if I could grow , or find edamame beans in the supermarket , I wouldn’t bother.
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I was just remembering Roy Keanes prawn sandwich comment. I think it was in 2000, so avocado smoothies have perhaps replaced prawns.
I’ve found edamame in leclerc. France grows lots of soya so you might be able to get seed in an agro coop.
Edamame don’t seem to be hard to find frozen, I got some already podded ones from the Trading Post with our last order. Supemarkets do them as well.
I’ll take a look when I’m next in the town, were they frozen? We only have a Carrefour close by, who don’t do it.