THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

I'm taking a supplement with D3, calcium, magnesium, K2, zinc and boron. Next DEXA scan I have, it will be interesting to see if it has helped stabilise my bone mass. They are actually doing a clinical research trial at Kings to see if K2 compares with bisphosphonates to help maintain bone density. It will be very interesting to see the results. From what I have read VitD by itself is not enough. It increases take up of calcium especially if supplemented with magnesium but calcium seeks the easiest berth which can be in the soft tissues i.e. the arteries rather than the skeleton. K2 seems to play a role in preventing that and directing the calcium out of the arteries and into the bones. Exciting if it is shown to work because it would also help to reduce atherosclerosis as well as preventing osteoporosis.

mardatha wrote: »

Doesn't always matter how good your diet is, health is a fragile precious thing and can go at any time. Maybe a lot of these older folk sit in front of the telly all day because they don't have the energy to get up and do anything - however much they want to. After 16 years with ME I know how that one feels and I wish I didn't.

I feel that if people eat junk food everyday for decades then it will effect them in later life,I have Graves' disease and I know what chronic fatigue feels like,there has been many times when I couldn't even go up stairs or move off the sofa.

I decided to cut out wheat and my muscle aches disappeared,I started to eat more veg and salad,cut out processed food and started eating nuts.I started to feel better within weeks.
How people live their lives is upto them,I don't say anything about the food they eat its none of my business,I just find it sad that they are stuck inside and seem to of lost the will to enjoy life.

I also have bad reactions to wheat, as I have discovered by (mostly) taking it out of my diet. When I allow myself to let it creep back in - and I really really like wheat but it doesn't like me - the joint aches re-appear and so does the weight gain.

I am much better off, in terms of energy and in terms of maintaining a steady weight loss, by eating a natural diet of mainly veggies with a small amount of fruit and un-processed fish and meat and eggs.

I lost 0.4 kg ovenight while I was curled up in bed for 8 hours happily processing a pan-fried steak and some steamed cauli florets. Today, I am having a big treat cooked brekkie, with a 4-egg omelette with veggies inside, served over a green salad. It will fuel the allotment session I've got planned and I probably won't eat anything more than an apple at lunch time.

I do feel that the massive amount of processed carp which has become the normal diet since the country came off rationed food is having, and going to have, extremely serious outcomes for millions of us.:(

Sorry to hear that. Would something as old-skool as a dab of calamine lotion help?

Capella, I tend to make sure I'm as covered up as possible even on very hot days (thin layers) and spray myself with @von skin so soft. Not much help on the itching though if I do get bitten.