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Frank Foster, a 93-year-old great-grandfather from South Yorkshire, England, is still officiating soccer matches three times a week, having taken charge of roughly 5,500 games across a 46-year career.
Foster credits his enduring fitness not to any modern wellness regimen but to the wartime rations of his youth and a discipline that has never left him.
Wartime Austerity as the Original Performance Diet Foster's argument is straightforward and, given his continued presence on the field, hard to dismiss: growing up under rationing forced him to eat "healthy food" rather than "sweets and cakes," and that foundation carried him through decades of physical activity.
The thesis is structural, not sentimental — early constraints shaped lasting habits. Today, that same logic governs his match-day nutrition.
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