Thanks Eileen, as I never eat smoothies, drink juices or sweet stuff (tonic is mine for a soft drink, I am really not a sugar person at all, as I have never taken take sugar in tea, coffee. I did not realise the difference between 'simple' and 'complex'.
That's why people in all walks of life are advised not to eat highly refined foods, never mind being on pred or being diabetic already. I've been pretty good that way, but now I'm trying to eat more (non animal) protein instead for calories and energy, but as a bowl of cereal has been my regular comfort food since childhood it hasn't been easy. Delicious as a handful of almonds or pumpkin seeds may be, it's just not the same. However, for those who are trying to keep a lid on the weight gain I do recommend big salads, made with kale or broccoli as well as the usual suspects and dressed with a healthy oil, etc. Salads are filling because they take time to chomp your way through and it gives the hunger centre time to register that you've just had a meal. But, I it's not the same as the nice bowl of carbs!
You are just going to love this:
Processed meats as big a cancer threat as cigarettes, health experts to sayGlobal health experts are to warn that bacon, ham and sausages are as big a cancer threat as cigarettes, it has been reported.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) will publish a report on Monday on the dangers of eating processed meats.
It is expected to list processed meat as a cancer-causing substance, while fresh red meat is also expected to be regarded as bad for health, the Daily Mail said.
The classifications, by the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer, are believed to regard processed meat as "carcinogenic to humans", the highest of five possible rankings, shared with alcohol, asbestos, arsenic and cigarettes.
Apart from arsenic and asbestos, I do drink and smoke and at 77 am into overdart time by 7 years.
Isn't it funny - I've always felt cereal was greatly overrated, other than a really good bowl of porridge with salt on them! And like lodger, if I want a soft drink in a bottle other than water I'd choose tonic - but always diet, I can't stand the taste of "full fat"! We found a load of cans of diet tonic with a LONG sell-by date this summer which means the odd G&T treat in store
God only knows how everyone here lives to be in their 80s and 90s then - any younger and it was most likely an accident or possibly cancer. And what is a BIG part of their diet? Speck, wurst - ham, bacon, sausages.
Remember this is from the People's Medical Journal - it'll be different if you read the report itself.
Here, too! Adding ' Haxe, Knödel, Schmalz, etc etc.". And my mother lived until she was nearly 80 and ate fish and chips twice a week, bacon sandwiches, beef broth, lamb, etc. They just never worried about food, they just enjoyed it. We worry about everything these days, eating correctly, exercising, etc. Amd who dies younger? The worriers!
I SUPPOSE we might live to be 150 if we didn't drink, smoke, eat fat, sugar, meat. exercised half the day - but OMG, what a boring existence!
And given how often a doctor dismisses your complaint of knee or back pain as "just wear and tear" what would all that exercise do to us?
As I say when I hear that some doctor told someone that pred will kill them - I'm a jam today girl. I might not live long enough to suffer the consequences so I'll take what i have thank you very much.
Good thing I've been vegetarian for about 20 years then, isn't it!
You have to remember that people in their 80s and 90s were not exposed to the level of agricultural chemicals and nuclear fallout that anyone born since WWII has been. That does make a difference. And now there are GMOs and who knows how that will affect the next generation?
busymom, I feel that my nutritional comments have kind of hijacked your conversation. I hope you are feeling better today? Here is the Piet Hein poem (T.T.T.) I mentioned in an earlier comment:
Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T. T. T.
When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember that
Things Take Time!
They were after the war though! People ate what they could get, they didn't think where it came from - and that was into the early fifties. Now people think too much. Life's too short, I want to enjoy the rest of it without worrying about everything I do, eat, etc.
Fair enough - but it didn't stop you developing PMR did it? Though I agree with you - Chernobyl probably has a LOT to answer for. As for GMOs - I like living where I do, they are quite anti them...
According to the Express today, bananas can cure both Ebola and HIV so we can rest secure that they probably cure PMR too!
What did the DM (People's Med Journal) miss? Do you think Pauline McCafferty has been receiving iv banana? If not - UCL missed a trick...
Where DO they get this drivel from?
The DM must get its act together. Sugar tax and cures for arthritis just don't have a patch on the wonders of bananas. How irresponsible can the Express get.
I agree with you, Eileen. I'd rather enjoy life .....who knows what's round the corner? I think sugar is a big culprit in the obesity epidemic but I don't want to live a dull life eating all the right food and being a real 'party pooper'. Boring!!!!!!(🍷🍷🍫anti-inflammatory) I do not mean to minimise the weight gain. I have it and tend not to look in the mirror but had to today. Shock, horror! I was trying to choose 2 pairs of specs for the first time in 4 years of not much change in my prescription. It was difficult because my face shape has changed. I live in hope that with the reduction in steroids it will improve. Can't do much with the face😳😳 but the Cushing effect will go. On a happy note my younger granddaughter said, 'Granny you have hardly any wrinkles'! 😀😀
Quite - I didn't have wrinkles until I lost weight - no wrinkles on a balloon! Do now - and they aren't laughter lines either...
Ah,well. When the time comes, I'll ask our painter for some of the filling he uses for the cracks in the wall!
Probably less dangerous than the stuff they inject for megabucks...
You know, I am content with the choices I've made concerning diet, not smoking, etc. I really think it unfair for people to imply that I am sanctimonious and a party pooper. I have tried in this forum to write suportive notes to people because I know how much I appreciate it when people support me. That's why I'm here, after all. We are all here sharing our experiences. I have had a couple of years from hell which no doubt overwhelmed my system. Who's to say that I might not have been far worse off if I lived more carelessly? And never mind Chernobyl. I grew up in the age of atmospheric nuclear testing, as did many people on this forum; that has got to have affected a good many of us.