I’m here but my doctor is mad at me so I have to eat “good” food tonight and forever, like veggies and olive oil based dressing, NO BAD FAT for the rest of my life. Have to take three new pills for what’s wrong.
Never go to the doctor or you will be sick. I was fine before I went.
So, if you want fresh veggies, you can come here. HOWEVER, HE DIDN’T SAY I COULDN’T DRINK ALCOHOL!
live your life but keep going. I can tell you that you have to be tough to get old. You would not believe my story. Enjoy that drink Buddie!!
that is my theory too, no doctors, but olive oil is good stuff, enjoy
That is so weird, because I had the same thing happen. I was in for just a check up and my blood pressure was high. He then gave me the healthy eating spiel. I confessed that my BP might be up from a few glasses of wine the day before... and he said don’t worry about it. A few drinks are harmless.
Alcohol and sugar are the biggest causes of cancer.
Cancers feed on sugar alone, but can begin due to alcohol use. My best employee died of throat cancer because he constantly drank beer and wine.
Do what I do, V-8 Bloody Mary's!
Glad you’re here. Sorry you have a broken part and have to take pills.
But, I have more bad news.
I take 12 pills in the morning and 13 six hours later. As well as insulin. But that isn’t the bad news.
On most of my pill containers, the warning says to “avoid alcohol”. THAT is the bad news.
But, I have a system. I take my morning pills early. That means I can take my afternoon pills early, then 6 hours later.... I can have a couple of drinks. ;>)
Well, the system is risky, but it works for me. ;>)
I am also restricted to healthy foods.... I find it mostly boring. I occasionally cheat and after you have cheated a few times, the guilt feelings go away. LOL
When my doctor gives me a sermon about the consequences of my occasional cheats, I simply remind him that I ride a Harley.... it makes him shake his head and laugh.
Be well...... laugh and stay young.
Warning, Marcella, this is OT (for what it's worth). I look back at the census from 1860s, 1870s, etc. and find that my ancestor's lived into their 70s, 80s, and 90s (pre-food nazi's, pre-pharmacueticals). Their existence was meager (Claiborne and Hancock Counties in TN) so they would eat almost the entire hog or cow, lard, salt, etc., and their lifespans were just as long as our's except we take 5 pills a day and are told to avoid this fat, that fat, nuts, eggs, sunshine. No wait! We were wrong. Nuts are okay. Eggs are okay. Sunshine is okay (but they have to grimace when saying that). We're reaping the repercussions of a lack of Vit D from their advice. Some doctors grudgingly say take Vit D supplements, but still use sunscreen when outdoors. It can be confusing. Life's too short. I'm not convinced we're lengthening our livespan. What about a quality of life? I read a book last year by a M.D. whose premise was about how the sales of diabetes meds, cholesterol meds, and blood pressure meds have skyrocketed after they moved the threshold #s. Who lowered them? The research is funded by pharmaceutical companies. By lowering the target numbers, BAM! You now have 10,000,000 new patients requiring your meds. If I can remember the author's name, I'll freepmail you.
Also, this much downplayed article from earlier this week which has been re-written by the health police over here, to emphasize the olive oil/sunflower oil aspects, but read carefully:
"People who ate the most fried food daily (250 grams, on average) were no more likely to develop heart disease during the study than those who ate the least amount (47 grams, on average). The researchers also found no link between how much fried food people ate and their chances of dying during the study, of any cause. These results remained the same after researchers accounted for several factors that can affect a person’s risk of heart disease, including their age, how much they exercised, whether they smoked, and whether they had high blood pressure.
More than 6 in 10 people in the study used olive oil for frying, with the rest using sunflower oil or another type of vegetable oil. The researchers found no difference between the oils in people’s risk of developing heart disease or dying.
This was a large and well-conducted study (following 40,000+ men and women aged 29-69 for 12 years), (WebMD then goes on to editorialize the article:) but we need to be cautious about its findings for a few reasons.
First, the researchers used questionnaires to assess people’s diets. This isn’t the most reliable approach, as some people may have misrepresented what they ate - particularly if they thought fried food would be viewed as unhealthy. Also, the researchers asked people about their diets only at the start of the study, so they didn’t take into account any changes to eating habits that happened over time. Most importantly, we can’t be certain that these findings apply to people outside of Spain, where a Mediterranean-style diet is common. This features plenty of fruit and vegetables, not too much red or processed meat, and olive oil instead of fats such as butter, margarine, and lard. So the fried food people ate in the study - for example, lots of fish - was different to the fried food consumed in many other countries. And even if the oils used were similar, the types of frying (for example, deep frying versus pan frying) might have produced different results." http://www.webmd.boots.com/heart-disease/news/20120126/no-link-between-heart-disease-and-foods-fried-in-olive-oil
Long story short IMO, they really aren't sure why the folks in this study aren't all dying at early ages from fried foods. They hypothesize this and that, but they really distrust they're own #s. Sort of like the global warming (or lack of) facts. The results aren't what was expected.