Get a grip woman!

Karmacat

SL, I went through your post for my own needs, and then hopped over to the Guardian just to have a look through. Look what I found, about nutritional psychiatry (applies to me, if not to you or redofromstart)
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/mar/18/can-you-eat-yourself-happier-nutritional-psychiatry-mental-health
Just off to put the link on my diary too, so I have it to hand.

Suffolk_lass

Magnesium is required for the proper growth and maintenance of bones (ie it will help prevent osteoporosis). Magnesium is also required for the proper function of nerves, muscles, and many other parts of the body. In the stomach, magnesium helps neutralize stomach acid and moves stools through the intestine.

All B vitamins are water soluble so that means you cannot absorb too much but also you need to keep your intake up and not think you eat it as a child so that is it!

B1 enables the body to use carbohydrates as energy. It is essential for glucose metabolism, and it plays a key role in nerve, muscle, and heart function.
B2 Doctors may prescribe riboflavin in higher doses to help treat migraines (and cancer in certain cases). B2 plays an important role in helping the body to break down the nutrients in complex carbohydrates (fats and protein) and convert these to (energy) forms the body can use.
B3 Having enough niacin, or vitamin B3, in the body is important for general good health. It is believed to reduce fatigue and tiredness. As a treatment, higher amounts of niacin can improve cholesterol levels and lower cardiovascular risks.
B5 helps the body use fat and protein and is also important for maintaining a healthy nervous system, eyes, skin, hair and liver. Specifically, B5 helps to create red blood cells.
B6 is good for the proper function of liver and kidneys. It helps the body make the hormones serotonin (regulates mood) and norepinephrine (which helps your body deal with stress).
B7 helps to metabolise food - benefits of biotin include improved metabolism, tissue maintenance, healthy skin (hair and nails), and weight loss. It can help to regulate blood sugar levels.
B9 benefits include preventing premature ageing, reducing the risk of heart attacks, helping reduce anxiety and depression and helping your body produce more red blood cells. ... It is primarily popular for its role in foetal health and development. Folate is the naturally occurring form in foods, while Folic Acid is the B9 form added to fortify foods or ensure women have enough during pregnancy.
B12 helps keep the body’s nerve and blood cells healthy (and helps make DNA, the genetic material in all cells). Vitamin B12 also helps prevent a type of anaemia called megaloblastic anaemia that makes people tired and weak.

Absorbing B12 occurs in the gut and is dependent on 2 things - the production of hydrochloric acid (which can reduce in the over 50s) and the production of the protein intrinsic factor (people with pernicious anaemia don't produce this). Some American medical advice is for the over 50s to take B12 in fortified foods or as a supplement because of known issues in absorbing it, as we get older. Diabetics taking Metformin may need a regular injection of B12 as Metformin is known to interfere with the absorption of B12.

Suffolk_lass

Karmacat wrote: »

SL, I went through your post for my own needs, and then hopped over to the Guardian just to have a look through. Look what I found, about nutritional psychiatry (applies to me, if not to you or redofromstart)
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/mar/18/can-you-eat-yourself-happier-nutritional-psychiatry-mental-health
Just off to put the link on my diary too, so I have it to hand.

Oh wow! That is so interesting (I have been saying to my Son for years to improve his diet and eat more vegetables to improve his mood (as well as weight, skin and hair). One day he will listen!). We have just cross-posted twice.

I am passionate about this. I only buy sugar made from cane, not beet because of the way I believe we metabolise it. Eating beets as a veg is one thing, refining the sugars out of them is taking the work out of the digestive process. I know that sugars in all forms are about the taste more than the nutritional value but cane seems to me to be the purest form of refined sugar

Back to the article - the stimulation of serotonin is also dependent on the complex of B vitamins as they trigger the production in the way they metabolise the food we eat, so B complex and eating the naturally occurring forms in our diet is entirely consistent with this. It is wisdom we seem to have known once and forgotten. My Housecraft (Domestic Science) Book from school goes through all of this and the foods the vitamins naturally occur in. I have books by Doris Grant on food combining and bread which are close to my heart.

Sorry, you have turned on a tap with that article!

Suffolk_lass

Karmacat wrote: »

Great post, SL! I get why you mentioned nutrition on my thread now, yay! Okay, so, of the foods that you mention above, these are the easy ones for me:
B1 rice, lentils, chick peas.
B2 eggs, peas, lentils, goats cheese, frozen broccoli.
B3 legumes
B5 avocado (I drizzle avocado oil, though not regularly enough), eggs (not regularly enough), legumes.
B6 eggs and beans.
B7 eggs and avocado

B9 green leafy veg and beans
B12 eggs and goats cheese


I can do frozen raspberries



Hope you don't mind me pinching it and making notes on *your* thread, but thats really valuable.

I love that we are exchanging this sort of information between our threads - it is what makes them interesting for me (and hopefully others) to read.

Karmacat

That's great, I'm glad it's positive for you too.

I don't know enough about cane vs beet, it's not anything I've ever looked at I'll just be using honey in the morning, dried fruit if I want something sweet, and if I want something processed, I'll do the thing I picked up in France, of having a few teaspoons of jam, just on their own.

But the main thing is that list of foods - so I'm off to soak some chick peas and beans

Suffolk_lass

Honey is good - especially if you can get local honey as the allergens in your district will (many beekeepers believe) be mitigated by eating local honey - they are magical little beasties, bees.

We had curry last night - they were freezer lurkers from New Year's Eve and all homemade. One was a chicken madras but the other two were packed with vegetables.

I am also going to soak some beans today, ready for tomorrow. I sat and watched some Jamie Oliver thing on Food Network while I was eating last week and he did a thing with a bed of un-soaked chick-peas, covered with tomatoes and then a piece of pork shoulder covered in a moroccan spice rub and slow cooked it with some sort of stock for 3 hours. I am going to try a variation and put some beef skirt on top of the same, with some garlic and stock and leave it in the oven for 8 hours (in the warming/simmering ovens), but I am going to soak my chick peas and add some locally grown marrowfat peas, to see how that goes. I have broccoli and cabbage to serve with it

Suffolk_lass

Four hours in the garden yesterday - I started with snipping up the rose brambles and blackthorn pruning, much of which was tangled with a clematis (most was generated on Saturday when we got out there together. I half filled a 1-ton bag. That is four - 3 full and one about 2/3 full that need to be taken to the dump. Then I moved on to weeding the paths in the vegetable garden. I did the whole length of the raspberry bed and bearing in mind I did nothing last year, there was a carpet of weeds. I should rake the path, which has paving slabs about 15cm apart along it so the gravel is not pulling you down as you walk along it. Naturally every slab was surrounded with weeds either on top of the membrane or compromising it so loads of work. I also did the gaps between 4 of the raised beds (there are ten - it is allotment sized) and started on one of the full width paths before I realised how dark it was getting and how achy I was. One very long, very hot shower last night helped enormously but my shoulders are still rather achy this morning.

It isn't as though I don't have other things to sort out. So far I have filled 2 mahoosive bags (the kind you see in launderettes or occasionally at airports) and I have about 20 pairs of trousers hanging on my bedroom door. I was going to try them on but I reminded myself this morning that fitting me is not the issue - the fact I have stopped work means I no longer need work trousers in black, grey, navy and brown, in 3 different sizes and several different styles. I will try on the ones I replaced in the wardrobe and weed those too!

Then there is the paperwork. Oh my. I just hi-jacked Ed's diary to relay the Sunday conversation. We have bought a couple of tools from a neighbour (ready for the day when DH is retired and no longer has access to the ones at work). So we had to collect them on Sunday. Unfortunately, rat-gate meant that the entire contents of the roof had had to be stored elsewhere. It was all in the trailer. "Put it in the dining room" I said, "I'll sort it out", I said. What was I thinking? :eek:

For a number of years we have been slack and lax about paperwork and just let it pile up on the desk, dining room table, and if we let it, on any other available flat surface - then when visitors are expected, it all got shoved into a crate and pushed up in the roof-space.

I think I thought there were half a dozen. Nope. 23 crates or boxes and 2 huge bags. Mostly paperwork but some treasures so each must be sifted through. I feel a Kon-Mari moment coming on - do I love or need it? - While it is very tempting to just burn it, I am sure we had some accounts we should be pursuing mis-selling on. There might even be a PPI or two on DH's old credit cards. Maybe on mine but I remember always saying no to payment protection when asked. And accounts from DH's old business. While these are all old, I understand HMRC have contacted some people going back to 1999 :eek: so I suppose we may need to keep some of these. :eek::eek::eek:

Today is happiness day. Just remember, I know how to live happy!

Karmacat

Yes you do know how to live happy the thing is, now you've retired, your house needs to be *fully* for you, which it hasn't been when you've needed to focus on work. Just think of all the space you're creating

liselle

Well done on the wading through mountains of paperwork!
Isn't the PPI deadline soon - good incentive or what.....,!!

enthusiasticsaver

I loved clearing out my wardrobe after retiring and like you had lots of black, grey and navy trousers in 3 different sizes. I ditched so many clothes and have gradually been replacing them over the last year. I have colour in my wardrobe now which is so nice after years of choosing fairly sedate clothes for work. I think I just have 2 pairs of black trousers now and they both fit.