General Chat

I look forward to being recognised as the healthiest dead body in the cemetery, if I live that long.

I think the lesson to be learned from most of the above replies, is 'do your thing' and don't worry. If you enjoy it, it will probably be good for you.
Most of my suits are coming back into fashion again, and food fads will probably be no different

Best wishes to each of you. Happy days

As I sit here munching my toast spread thickly with salted butter and a sprinkle of extra salt, awash with caffeine, these things become less of a worry if I have a few rum and cokes and a bag of chips. Life seems just fine to me! ;-) ;-)

I have gone back to using butter, not loads of it, just sensible amounts and cook with rapeseed oil, again in moderation and only for stirfries and eggs.

I don't stint myself on nice things, like chocolate and such altho again, try to moderate my intake. Lots of veg and brown rice and oily fish instead of meat when I can, (o.h. doesn't like oily fish so eat that when he is on late shift so I can cook my choice)

I don't like the taste of plain water so have a little squash in it, only a little to disguise the taste of the water but finding it harder to get squashes without aspartame in. My favourite one from the Co-op, a Highjuice summer fruits, has now been relaunched with No Added Sugar but with the toxic aspartame which is banned in America! Good old Co-op, run with the herd in Britain, and poison us all lol

I tried drinking more when I had kidney stones - instructions from the doctors - and used bottles of fizzy water with fruit juices in, from all the different supermarkets. It wasn't until a lot later, after the kidney stone had gone, that I became ill with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome and suspect it was the aspartame in the fizzy waters that caused it.

I don't like things burnt so watch my toast and anything with a very dark appearance, things that are burnt are carcinogenic so I avoid barbied stuff unless it's properly cooked but not with black edges lol

Sounds as tho you are getting it right Harry,


Lizx

Dear Sir Harry

Hello to you,

Well, these scientists have to have a go at something!

My cooking is just plain burnt all the time, so goodness what they would say about me!


Take gentle care
With best wishes
Elizabeth,
xx

Good Onya Harry, you sound just like me.
Just keep your cholestral level above 4.5 thats measured before breakfast , or else chew Liquorice. hehe

A bit of what you fancy does you good :-D

It's up to you if it's a little bit or a BIG bit!

I refuse to eat margarine.. I believe it's one molecule away from being plastic! It's a horrible grey colour until they put yellow food colouring in it.... more chemicals. I eat butter, because it tastes better and it's natural......... but I don't slather it on.

I cook with oils & butter, usually olive oil, macadamia oil or a "vegetable" oil. I've experimented with lots of cake recipes, and have worked out which ones I can use oil instead of butter (definitely NOT margarine!).

My cholesterol level is 3.2 :-)

Toast? I hate it dark, my toast is really pale

A little bit of what you fancy does you good Harry ;-) :-D

I have 'small' health problems, but when at an 18th birthday celebration last night I had a few vodkas and was dancing with the young'ns :-D...I feel so fit today...I love vodka me :-D

for a bit of humour, Harry.........


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good health!!

Bob

I realised a long time ago, that Universities need to do 'trials' to justify their existence, and to get funding.
This results in various 'academics' (and I use that word lightly) coming out with copious reports on what they've found, and various doctors/governments then using this information, or choice bits of this information to tell us how to live.

A good example is daily fluid intake, which is 2 litres, most of which comes from the food we eat.
Somehow, this became WATER intake. Bottled water companies loved this, and promoted it ad nauseam. It became an easy way to a 'healthy' lifestyle.

When it was discovered, about 5 years ago, that I only had one kidney, I was sent to a nephrologist, to check on it's health. I was dreading it as I hate water, and never drink it.

Inevitably, I was asked what I drank. Builder's Tea, instant coffee, beer and wine, and sometimes full cream milk.
'No 2 litres of water a day?' asked the nephrologist.
I admitted 'No'.

'That would explain why your kidney is so healthy', she said.

Apparently lots of water washes out the minerals your kidney needs to function. Wine, beer and tea contain 'healthy' minerals that aid it's function. The nephrologist did add a proviso 'I don't care about your liver'!!

Full cream milk and butter (saturated fats) have recently been declared healthy, transfats are now unhealthy. My cholesterol level actually went down after I stopped drinking homogenised milk and went on to unhomogenised full fat jersey milk.

So, take what 'they' say with a pinch on salt - though not too big a pinch - too much salt is bad for you
:-D :-D

Don't smoke; drink; or gamble; and can't find any loose women.

Sadly, my halo is slipping. Bad enough when they attacked sugar (guilty your worships), but now another cancer evil is apparently toast, which is anything other than light brown. (EU health chiefs)..

Now they tell me - I'm 82 this month, and have always been a toast scraper.

Happy days

"be careful when reading about your health - you may die of a mis-print".