General Chat

I've never smoked because I hate the smell. Both my parents smoked but my sister hated it too so she's a non smoker. My sister;s children are non smokers like mine :-)

Bob

I gave up smoking 25 years ago ....................

and, yes, I'm still on the chart as ex-smoker!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x8D4T--0v4

or from our bibulous garlic eating cousins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr_UgK5tNkY

I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler,
I'm a long way from home;
And if you don't like me,
Just leave me alone.

I'll eat when I'm hungry,
I'll drink when l'm dry,
If the hard times don't kill me,
I'll live till I die.

Rye whisky, rye whisky,
Rye whisky, I cry,
If you don't give me rye whisky,
I surely will die.

Blimey, I've started something here haven't I? Just to let you know I haven't had a drink since last Tuesday. I have made up a chart to keep a daily check on my intake, and weekly weight. I can assure you all that I have heeded the warning. I hope none of you giving advice (gratefully received) are smokers. That is something I gave up on 13th December 1967. Nearly fifty years, and my doctor's notes still have me as "ex-smoker"

If you drink more than your GP then you def have a problem.

Saw Bill this week. He was in a short sleeved shirt. On his right arm he had what looked like 3 large bruises. Close up I realised that it was areas where he was bleeding under the skin. I wonder how long he has?

I'm with you Sylvia, you've had the warning Bob, now it's up to you to decide whether drink is more important than your life. Ball's in your court Bob !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we also had a great night out ......................


a fund raising dinner dance


ticket for 1 free drink

free wine with dinner

cash bar open from 6:30 pm until end of dance



My free drink was cranberry juice.

Most people had no more than 3 glasses of wine ................. certainly no-one was staggering around.




I have noticed that there is a noticeable decrease in the amount of alcohol drunk by older people here .................... it's the young ones who get drunk, binge drink etc


could be something to do with the stringent drink drive laws we have had in effect for about 20 years :-)


Plus the fact that one's metabolism changs with age

A wild girly night last night .
3 bottles of beer was all I could manage.

:-D :-D :-D

I just don't like the taste of alcohol, wine just tastes like vinegar to me, so it's difficult to understand the attraction.

However, I don't mind others enjoying a drink, but I was shocked to listen to the tv programme featured recently about the damage done to unborn babies through the mother drinking. It sounds as if the advice may be about to change. In America and Canada they said all alcohol in pregnancy should be avoided, that advice given about 18 years ago, if I remember correctly.

Rollo


I'm not "wailing about this and that will cause ruin your health"


I'm talking about an individual facing up to the fact that a drink WILL ruin their health even more than it currently is



I don't give a damn what you do ......................


and I'm not warning anyone to stop drinking or they will develop what I have or what Bob's got



but both I and Bob have developed a health problem that will not miraculously go away ................ there's nowt either of us can do about it NOW


however we can live longer with it IF we do stop drinking, or at the very least, greatly curb it.



My oesophageal ulcer was not caused by drinking ............... it was caused by ignoring the fact that I had gastric acid reflux and treating it for far too long with Tums and Rolaids before going to the doctor.


however, I do not go around counselling people about it




I mentioned it on this thread only because I see Bob and I having health problems that can be helped, but not cured, by NOT drinking.

I haven't had a drink since Tuesday evening. All this talk of booze is making me thirsty.

I don't myself find the never ending wailing about this and that will ruin yr health / cause the end of civilisation (if any) as we know it credible and in particular the crusade against having a drink or two.

Binge drinking till you drop on a Friday night is pretty obviously a bad idea though largely a UK thing thank goodness.

The real danger to the health from alcohol is that is has no end of sugar in it so that quite small amounts can make you fat and then there are all sorts of consequences. The amount of sugar most people eat in fixxy drinks, ready meals, tea & coffee with sugar, chocolate and so on is astounding.

As well as cutting out sugary food the problem is easily fixed by doing some exercise - not a lot it doesn't need an hour down the gym going nuts. I play squash twice a week and run 2-3 miles most days but that is prob. a bit more than average. Regular exercise increases yr metabolic rate and thus it is easier to eat/drink what you fancy. By keeping alcohol intake/exercise in balance there is no need to have any hang up about units unless of course you are driving. Not a good idea when skiing either.

Our ancestors drank very large quantities of beer and wine well beyond what is regarded as excessive today yet with out much in the way of ill affects. They managed to do this because they were very active even the well off. Try riding a horse ten miles there for lunch and ten miles back again afterwards and you'll see.

Children also drank beer right into the C20 - it was the only source of water which could be sure not to be tainted with cholera.

What is destroying people's health is far too much time sat down mouse / telecommand in hand plus driving everywhere not a glass or two of malt whisky.

Bob


I'm going to be very blunt with you, and you (and others) may not like it ...............


Hard lines, 'cos I'm going to continue!!




the question becomes ........


do you want to live or die??


do you want to drink excessively and die?


or live longer with your loved ones and friends?





I had an oesophageal ulcer which healed, but left me with Barrett's Syndrome, which is a pre-pre-cancerous syndrome


The only thing I can do is to take 2 medications a day for the rest of my life to prevent gastric reflux


I didn't drink at all heavily, usually just 1 drink on Saturday and 1 on Sunday, and no more than 2 drinks in total on any day ................

I was not told to stop drinking although I know other people with the same problem who were told to stop


but I begin to get gastric reflux after a quarter of a glass ............... and to be honest wine and any alcohol tasted acid-y



I decided I did not want to develop oesophageal cancer, with all that implies



and stopped drinking




do you want to die of liver failure?



not only do you want to die of that ....................... but do you want to subject your family and friends to the horrible sight of you dying of it?



The choice is yours ............ you have been given a chance



do you take it, or are you going to be stupid?

360 pints a year? That's not even one pint a day!

Maggie ~ many years ago a doc recommended I drink stout every night. My iron count was really low.

I couldn't stand the stuff! It was like drinking mud.

Told the doc and he said........ have a glass of port instead!

No problem.......... iron level got better, and I slept really well :-D

Chris, my doctor 'advised' me to drink a bottle of stout every evening.
Why? Because I was pregnant and weighed 7 stone!!!
This was not 7 stone anorexia, this was 7 stone lifting half hundredweight of potatoes, many times, every day, this was 7 stone of agricultural labourer who was all muscle!!

So, I'd go to the pub and drink grapefruit and lemonade, then go home and drink a bottle of stout :-S

The baby turned out okay :-D

When I was a child aged about 5-6 we lived with my Grandparents.

Every Sunday morning, just before lunch,my Nan would give me a tot glass of milk stout to build me up.......Would probably be reported to social services today :-D

Chris

.....trust me to have a teetotal GP :-|

The average human does not drink 360 pints.

2014
'The country that consumes the most beer per head is the Czech Republic with 143 litres of the stuff consumed per person.'
(About 250 pints)


As long as you drink less than your GP, you should be fine.