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fuddle

Thanks for sharing polly. I'm in awe of Scottish crofters so will be tuning in and most probably adding to my wish to visit list.

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This is a copy and paste from one of my very well respected health periodicals. I am taking it very seriously and today am ditching all my white rice. I love hm risotto made with white pudding rice and squash :eek: Luckily I love nutty brown rice and hm wholemeal bread. I can`t mess around at my age and always knew about the high incidence of lung cancer in non smokers. There will be multi benefits for me, once I get over ditching the foods. I haven`t eaten `normal` cereals for years, just oat based eg this morning some muesli mixed with jumbo oats and soaked in almond milk last night, it is yummy tbh

"Smoking is the major cause of lung cancer—but the standard Western diet of processed foods can double the risk in people who’ve never smoked.

High glycaemic-index (GI) foods, including processed and fast foods, are an unsuspected cause of lung cancer, while eating plenty of fruits and vegetables can prevent the disease, say researchers.

The risk was discovered when researchers compared the eating habits of 1,905 people, who had recently been diagnosed with lung cancer, with 2,413 healthy people. There was an average 49 per cent higher risk between those eating high- or low-GI foods.

But the risk doubled among people who had never smoked, say researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre.

Their discoveries explain why a growing minority of non-smokers are developing lung cancer, they say.

High-GI foods include sugary drinks and foods, white bread and white rice, chips, biscuits and cakes, and most commercial breakfast cereals. The foods cause a sudden spike in blood-sugar levels, which raise insulin levels.""

lillibet_dripping

pollyanna_26 wrote: »

Mar Don't know if you already know but bbc2 start a series at 7pm today This farming life . Set around Scotland including crofters on Lewis .I thought of you but am not sure if it will be shown in your area .
polly

Wasn't it a lovely programme? Worth paying the licence fee for alone...

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I have just done another de-gunk of my en suite washbasin, a brush job, down the drain etc. Only me using it and only ever soap and water, tooth paste products go down the loo. I honestly cannot remember having to do this so much in the old days, even with five of us. Is it the water, I wonder? Soap hasn`t changed, oh yes what has changed is these fancy pop up plugs, maybe water drainage is so much slower, maybe it is the plastic drain pipes, which allow s gunk to stick. Anyone else?

pollyanna_26

Kittie I started eating wholefoods in the seventies and still have my original Cranks cookbook . My children were raised on wholemeal pasta and rice and proper porridge . I think the taste is much nicer .
I too have noticed the drain problems .Our water company did major work in this area three years ago and it appears to date from then .
polly

pollyanna_26

Lilibet I loved This Farming Life . I spent an hour of sheer bliss . As some on here know my heart is in Scotland . The scenery and skies were amazing and I recognised some of the the locations from trips .
I just have to remember to keep up with the series . We have another episode tonight and one tomorrow then another nine to follow .
My humax box gave up the ghost last autumn and I am trying to manage without it so I will have to keep up better than I did with Dickension .
polly

mardatha

Drat I missed it, will watch tonight. My dad was brought up on a farm in Fife and his dad worked the farm half the year and was on the fishing boats the rest of the time. They had 8 children 7 of whom lived well into their 80s. My granny was alive and still knitting at 95!
We're on healthy eating too, after a lifetime of me eating sweeties. I suppose I'm lucky I got to 66 really

fuddle

DH and I watched it, cuppa on table and crochet in hand. It was our kind of program and a nice change from the kind of reality TV that seems to be so annoyingly popular. Even though it's a hard, hard life I still very much want to give it a go. It won't happen - our life and the experiences we have won't transfer.

kittie I read a lot to do with the primal way of eating and although it's the first I have heard it connected to lung cancer I know of the dangers of poor carbohydrate/high GI spikes.

I have mentioned in the past that my mam subscribed to the ready made era of the 70's and 80's and that I was brought uo on processed food. I think, although have nothing to back up my thoughts, that my digestion issues I have today at 36 is because of that poor start. Add into that refined/cheap food stuffs that I have relied upon these past 6 years and Houston, we have a problem.

From the humble bleached plastic containing teabag to the cheap white flour I am slowing stripping back to real, wholesome honest food but I am finding it comes with a price tag. I can't worj that out. Why does something thar needs no work, no messing, no adding too cost more than something that has been around exensive machinery and 'had stuff done' to it?

I think a lot of people are cottoning on now. I truelly believe we are hit by cancer every single day. The more toxins we expose ourselves too the more our body has to fight I think.

I think people are slowly coming to realise that refined foods can be dangerous. I do think it will turn on it's head the more we know.

pollyanna_26

Mar I do eat sweeties - far from being an angel !
I really hoped you'd see my post in time yesterday , maybe I should have posted on the preppers thread .
Can you watch last nights on iplayer ?
polly

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I've never ever been able to work out why LAMB in particular is so extortionately expensive in the supermarkets when it's mainly grazed and shepherded but not fed concentrates and also why fleeces are worth pence? surely there is something wrong when the farmer only gets 50p for a fleece?