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  • PasturesNew
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    I was reading some comments on a Facebook group page recently where someone commented they don't recall having a cold since starting to eat fermented food. That was duly followed by other people saying the same thing.

    Maybe it's more than coincidence that I can't recall the last time I had a cold myself - and I'm still not eating that much fermented food yet.
    I eat pies, drink fizzy pop and eat sweeties.

    I can't remember the last time I had a cold, I've hardly ever had one. I've never been ill really since I had measles etc aged about 6-7. I'm robust :)

    It's easy to attribute health to one change .... but it might be that people are looking for that one thing and/or don't want to appear the "odd one out" in a group situation.

    I've also never been in a Hospital, not even to be born.

    So there must be something good about the pie/fizzy pop and sweeties diet :)
  • There's always an exception to every rule Pastures:rotfl:.

    I guess some people are born with very healthy/resilient type genes and virtually have to be felled by a bulldozer before they will be ill.

    Then there are others of us that are very well aware we've probably been born with really awful genes that will likely make us pretty ill if we let them - and hence are rather interested in healthy eating to counteract anything our genes might get up to left to themselves.

    That will have me thinking now. I'm in my 60s now and I think I'm literally the only pretty healthy person I know in my age group or older. Minor little "witters" (eg the odd bit of heartburn/occasional bit of cramp in leg/wear glasses). I'm planning on working on them too:). But I'm mentally reeling through everyone I know now (apart from noticeably younger people) and I haven't thought of anyone yet that is....
  • fuddle
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    You never know when a blip is going to hit. Even the healthiest can be struck down with something so abhorant and nonsensical that genes or diet just don't even come into the equation.
  • LameWolf
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    Frozen fruit - I have loads, but it's all either from the PYO or snaffled off the local hedgerows for free.

    Keffir - I keep seeing it mentioned on various threads, but tbh it sounds like a bit of a faff, and I can't really see how it's any better than yogurt. :think:

    Ice cream - I make it myself, never ever buy it; currently got lime & honey ice cream in the freezer.
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  • PasturesNew
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    LameWolf wrote: »

    Keffir ... I can't really see how it's any better than yogurt. :think:

    I don't know what it is - but there was some "foods myths checked out" style programme that I wasn't watching the other week - and I remember the word being mentioned.

    They gave a bunch of people similar stuff and then tested them before/after and whatever it is .... the results showed that only kefir did it. I think "it" was whatever it's supposed to do ...

    So, if anybody's interested.... if you're taking that stuff for a reason ... then that's the only one that fixes it.

    Not sure what it was .... guts and poo or something.

    I have the telly on/not watching most of the time. A few words go in my ear; most don't.
  • fuddle
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    It was about the delivery of pro and prebiotics - good bacteria. The actimel type drinks and the supplements weren't as successful in getting through stomach acid as the keffir. The rest work but only slightly in comparison to the keffir.
  • LameWolf
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    Not sure what it was .... guts and poo or something.
    Oh lawks, I think I'll give it a miss, then. Lupus has done some weird and extremely unpleasant things to my digestive system, so I have to be quite careful these days. So anything that's supposed to "do something" to that area of the anatomy is something I'll treat with extreme caution. :eek:
    If your dog thinks you're the best, don't seek a second opinion.;)
  • Farway
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    That's a whole world of food I've no experience of :)

    I have had red grapes - tried them for the first time a few months ago, lovely - looked at them yesterday but at £1.85 for a punnet I kept walking :) bought bourbon biscuits for 24p instead.


    More "alien foods" :)

    I've never had any frozen fruit yet.... I do look at it sometimes, but it's pricey when I've looked. Never made ice cream, but I don't buy it either. protein weetabix? never heard of it. No idea what kefir is, it's "one of those modern-fangled things".

    :)

    I think you made good call ref grapes V biscuits
    I did grow grapes years ago, but TBH they were only good for winemaking, and that I did for a few years but in the end CBA crept in and up a ladder picking or pruning grapes was not a way I wanted to spend my time

    never had frozen fruit either, not even my own grown, except as stewed apples, still have frozen HG cherry toms in freezer from 2015, I would bung them in where you would use tinned toms, except I no longer do that sort of cooking

    Likewise HM ice cream, nor buought it, not one of my favourite foods TBH, i'd rather have steamed treacle pud

    I think I am in a food rut, I keep seeing ingredients or foods I have never ehard of, and really not too bothered about trying them. I have a Waitrose card and get the free Food magazine, full of recipes that to me are just bonkers and very cheffy, so not even tempted to try them. I expect I would eat them if one was plonked in front of me though

    This morning was nil breakfast, but had a nobbly choccy biscuit with my coffee mid morning at Age Concern

    Luch was tin of sardines grilled on toast, made a nice change and just what I fancied

    Dinner, not sure, could be either Mac cheese YS from Lidl this morning, or Veg lasagne ready meal from Waitrose, so far the lasagne is ahead but that is oven for best reuslt, the mac cheese is nukeable
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  • mcculloch29
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    I like fermented foods. My Mum made her own yogurt in the 50s, 60s and 70s. I love sauerkraut, but it can really move things along on the digestive front. Kimchee I have tried as well.
    Today I fancy a savoury pancake or two, I have bacon in the fridge so it may well be one of those.

    I have lots of energy today and I wish I knew where it had come from.
    I have cerebral palsy (just my leg, really) and associated severe arthritis in my hip, so fatigue and tiredness are constant,.
    I slept very well in my chair last night so it could be that.
    It could be the vitamin supplements I was sent to review by Amazon.
    It could be the lengthening days.
    I have no idea, but I'm grateful!
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  • Ames
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    I keep thinking about growing some veg. I did some research into what can grow in tubs but then remembered I'm scared of slugs and snails so decided it wasn't a good idea.

    I saw the specialist today and he put my mind at rest regarding some symptoms and abnormal test results I've been having. Mainly the liver function tests which he says are abnormal because there's a problem with the new machine they've used.

    Something seems to have 'clicked' and I'm feeling a lot brighter now.

    Breakfast was an avocado and two chocolate bars. Lunch was a toasted teacake and latte.

    Tea will be fishcakes and a pile of veg.
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