I know, why didn’t someone give me this advice earlier!
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I love the stuff, but can’t eat them as is anymore as the pulp gets stuck in my throat (because of dismotility). So I have to juice them. Not so bad, really.
Apart from martial arts, yoga apparently also helps with prevention of falls or ‘falling better’ so that if you do fall you don’t do as much damage to your joints or bones. There are many different forms of yoga, but some of the classes I attend focus very much on ensuring good range of mobility of all joints, including toes and fingers. Many of the maneuvers like transitions into poses or between poses and balances help with maintaining a good variety in mobilisation skills and proprioception. In my yoga class we have people in their 70s and 80s who do a pretty good job of keeping up with the 20 year olds. And I’m in the middle with the flushed and sweaty menopausal brigade!
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Tai Chi was recommended to me, as well.
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My balance has always been out of whack, so I’m probably a prime candidate for yoga 
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Ballet.
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It’s only recently that I’ve been able to eat an whole piece of citrus with the membrane intact and sometimes that’s a bit iffy without it getting stuck and causing a gag reflex.
Juice is good.
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Am I the only one who meticulously picks off all the white things on the citrus membrane before popping a wedge in my mouth? I just grabbed about a dozen Sumo oranges at Wegmans.
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Nope! I can’t stand them, either.
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Extra roughage, I suppose, but it plays into my fidgetiness 
I usually do it, except when I’m thinking about fiber. Clementines are easy to delouse, as it were.
I don’t know how many of you have fallen down and broken something but let me tell you from experience, you don’t have time to think about “falling better”.
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I broke my foot in a ballet class many many moons ago. I didn’t even realize I was falling. It was that fast.
At a certain age, “Eat your veggies” is good advice. Further down the pike, “Stay vertical” may keep you in better stead.
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It’s all about falling better these days
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I think people vary mostly by degree in pith-picking.
The pith is of some value nutritionally. But if those veins left on the fruit are danglers, I tend to tear 'em off.
I think it helps (or at least I hope so) when one has learned to fall “better” at a very young age, so much so that it is ingrained in one’s muscle memory.
First thing we learned at the barn was how to fall off a horse without major damage, i.e. rolling off over your shoulder. Same when I did judo as a youngin’.
That said, this “falling better” muscle memory did not prevent me from tearing a ligament in my shoulder a few years ago when I tripped on an after-dinner stroll through our hood 
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The trick is to practice the movement regularly so you don’t have to think about falling better, it comes reflexively. It won’t happen after one class, but eventually the sensation of falling will trigger a response that is much more useful that the sudden realization: “Oh shit, I’m falling!”
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We knew my dad’s dementia was advancing the day I saw him trip and fall awkwardly. He had practiced judo as a child, resumed sporadically as a young adult, then started working out regularly from the ages of 35-50. His reflexes seemed to remain sharp until one day in his mid-80s, he fell that he stiffened and and I saw panic in his face as he went down. He was a 3rd degree black belt but had not been on the mat in over 30 years, and the time away definitely eroded his reaction.
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Maybe I should practice falling again! I have “walking/bumping into random shit” down to a T at this point.
