Preparedness for when

pineapple

Back to porridge I sprinkle sugar and salt on mine...:eek:
I'm 62 so well past the half way mark. It might seem odd but that's how I like it and life is for living.
I'm 'good' in other ways but someone who was 100% good would be a tad boring imo.
Waits for knock on door from the salt police.... :rotfl:

mardatha

Pineapple, I don't listen a word they say about food. One year it's good for you, eatit - then next it's bad for you for goddsake don't eatit.
I think the main problem is not moving enough. I see shepherds and gamekeepers and farm workers all around me here who eat meals that make Desperate Dan look anorexic, but they're all out digging the gardens and walking the dogs in their 80s.

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I'll join the great porridge debate, our favourite way to eat porridge is to flavour the porridge with a tiny bit of salt, use dried skimmed milk powder in the cooking water, add in some dried cherries before cooking and then add a nut of butter in the centre of the cooked porridge and sprinkle on some cinnamon sugar, it's Scandinavian flavouring and a very grown up taste, wonderful!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

I think the main problem is not moving enough.

Judging by the people I know who would rather coast round for 10 minutes in the car looking for a parking spot 20 yards closer to their destination - yes! :rotfl:

elona

Our previous house was near a leisure centre and it always used to amuse me the numbers of people who would drive up - and practically fight to park right outside the main door, rather than elsewhere in the big car park. They would then spend at least an hour "getting fit".

I wondered even then if maybe actually walking in the fresh air might do them more good.

siegemode

I love porridge, but only the way granddad made it. Made mostly with full fat milk (Guernsey on Sundays) cooked slowly for anything upto 30 mins and adding more milk as it thickened. Salt and sultanas/raisins added. Served and topped with Demerara and evaporated milk. Nom nom nom

One of my favourite summer teas consisted of a big bowl of strawberries, loads of evaporated milk, a sprinkle of sugar and plenty of fresh bread and butter to make strawberry sandwiches and dip in the milk. My oh thinks it's weird but I love it and I guess it takes me back to a happy time full of wonderful memories. Does anyone else eat strawberries with bread and butter ?

Grandad worked on the land all his life and had 3 allotments and a huge garden. He grew for market so fruit and veg were always plentiful. He also had a fulltime job and lived to 90. He ate more salt, sugar and fat than we are advised today, but no processed foods and other nasty stuff that so much food contains now in the form of artificial sweeteners, preservatives and flavourings.

I'm sure with so many pollutants in our lives today applied or ingested that the average life expectancy will drop in the future if indeed it hasn't already.

ginnyknit

I agree Mar, I am up and down all day long, pottering and pootling at stuff. If I dont I feel sluggish and achy. I still carry far too much shopping home but think its cheaper than the gym We tend to park close to things because of OH's problems but I usually plonk him in a cafe whilst I dash round the shops.

Nipped on the market for oranges for DGS this morning and discovered boxes of mushrooms for £1.50 :j weighed in at 3lbs so spread the love and left a good few at DD's to go with their pasta, made a huge pot of soup for me and fried some off in that low fat stuff to go in tonight curry. I still have half a carrier bag full to de-hydrate. I love bargains like that.

pineapple

siegemode wrote: »

I He grew for market so fruit and veg were always plentiful. He also had a fulltime job and lived to 90. He ate more salt, sugar and fat than we are advised today, but no processed foods and other nasty stuff that so much food contains now in the form of artificial sweeteners, preservatives and flavourings.

I'm sure with so many pollutants in our lives today applied or ingested that the average life expectancy will drop in the future if indeed it hasn't already.

And if not life expectancy, the quality of that life.
The latest stats are that 1 in 2 of us will get cancer.
http://www.onmedica.com/newsarticle.aspx?id=c63e82f1-9102-4abf-a7da-6e01852efb0a
I remember when it was 1 in 3 - and that was scary enough. At this rate it will eventually be 2 in 2.
Plus there is a considerable increase in dementia.
Don't tell me the sole reason is that we are living longer. I firmly believe it is also because of carcinogens in our food, in our products, in the air... Individually things may have been safety tested - but how long for and what is the cumulative effect?
Here's an interesting comment on what may be going on.
http://www.theprovince.com/life/dodge+disturbing+rise+dementia/8521915/story.html

There have been some great advances in medicine and undoubtedly there are people alive now who wouldn't have survived even 20 years ago. But to me it seems as though some advances also have the power to harm. It's as if nature is trying to maintain a balance.

GreyQueen

Evening all.

I suppose you can look at cancer from the POV that you have to die of something, if you don't die of an accident. Do they still call pneumonia the old man's friend?

News today is that my uncle (82, relative by marriage) has been told to eat as much as possible, even all the things usually regarded as "naughty" to try and get some weight back on his bones. He's eating heartily but losing weight.

Until this time last year, he was a fit and active man, albeit one living with prostrate cancer, which he had checked every 3 months. Following a disastrous treatment by a private chiropodist 12 months ago, he's had multiple problems with the foot treated, which will not heal. He's been in and out of hospital, under threat of amputation, is on a cather and now he can't keep flesh on him and we suspect the cancer is getting the upper hand and that we'll lose him in the next few months.

When you're old, one thing can flip you from being basically OK to being on a slippery slope to the end of your days. I've seen it many a time.

I've been on borrowed time since I nearly died in '97 and am kept alive by medication. I thoroughly enjoy being alive but if my world had become one of unbearable misery, I would have no qualms about checking out early. Every day is a blessing atm and long may it continue.

My Mum (70) had cancer 3 years ago and is fine since the treatment. A fair few people I know would have died but for medical interventions like surgeries or are alive like me thanks to medications.

In a pre-modern world, or in the modern world in an undeveloped country, a lot of people would have died. I know of one family where the past three generations have been born by C-section. Narrow pelvises. Once heard the remark that the natural fate of a woman with a narrow pelvis is to die in childbirth - and that was from an gynaecologist.

Nature doesn't give a monkey's about individual survival, or even individual species' survival. Let's hope that it doesn't get too Darwinian out there in a hurry..........

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mardatha wrote: »

I think the main problem is not moving enough.

Picolax?