There are very, very few areas of the country in which most Americans need to feel fear visiting or traveling through.

Personal Safety is not a feeling I encounter often, it is more often fear. From the guy in South Carolina who felt the need to carry a pistol while jogging to a housewife who carries a .38 while hiking.

This feeling of fear, seems to me to be emanating from the media outlets that sensationalize traumatic events. I get this strange culture shock in the US from people that things are "not safe". However, the internal opinion I get from people is that the US is the best place in the world, and the safest at the same time. 

Cognitive dissonance at its finest.

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Eat a good and balanced diet. Don't eat too many carbohydrates. Eat legumes. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pay attention to your caloric intake if your metabolism slows and you gain weight. Don't smoke (too many) cigarettes. Don't drink soda. Don't constantly drink excessive amounts of alcohol. Do drink a glass of red wine every now and then. Exercise plenty, though in different ways to train your different muscle groups.

Then get hit by a bus and it's all been entirely meaningless anyway.