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RicinYakima said:

not that I get any anymore.

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That's sad. Health reason?

We've cut back on sweets. I'm longing for an apple pie, though.

Walnuts?
why would you ruin a perfectly good cookie like that.

Geriatric Diabetes. Age caught up with me: potatoes twice a day, bread twice a day, sugar in my coffee and loved corn. As a chemist, I knew the risks of overloading on carbohydrates, but ignored it. It won't happen to me. So, it is meat and vegetables and small amount of fruit and all the dill pickles I can eat. p.s. Blood work is excellent, but have to calm down the liver and pancreas.

dang man.
can't eat vegetables, nor grains, meat is bad for you.... is oxygen okay or is that prop 65 too?

RicinYakima said:

Geriatric Diabetes. Age caught up with me: potatoes twice a day, bread twice a day, sugar in my coffee and loved corn. As a chemist, I knew the risks of overloading on carbohydrates, but ignored it. It won't happen to me. So, it is meat and vegetables and small amount of fruit and all the dill pickles I can eat. p.s. Blood work is excellent, but have to calm down the liver and pancreas.

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WATCH THOSE DILLS! When I became a diabetic I replaced chips with pickles. "Free" food they called them. So I went wild on them for snacks.
My legs were swelling up something awful. Here, pickles have just as much or more salt then chips.
Raw cucumbers and baby carrots are your friend.

fiver said:

dang man.
can't eat vegetables, nor grains, meat is bad for you.... is oxygen okay or is that prop 65 too?

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Basically it is the Atkins or Keto diet. The "professional" dietitians want you to cut out only sugars and fats, which is the wrong approach. Eating half the volume of food is not a long term solution if just eating carbohydrates. While like most Americans I could loose 25 pounds, my blood work is excellent, arteries are clear and kidneys are OK. Meat and fats are just fine, and I am low on sodium, so salt isn't hurting me.

Everything that you eat has to be turned into monoglycerides, simple sugar, by your body before it is used or stored. Eating fats doesn't make you fat. Eating more than your body can use is turned into fat by your own body. Eating carbohydrates makes lots of monoglycerides but works your pancreas a lot. Mine is old and tired, so it needs to rest.

yeah,,, remember the war on fat back in the 80's.
everything was fat free
[even stuff that never had any fat in it [Licorice] was blazened with a big fat free sticker]
sugar was/is the big problem
stuff that should be broken down into simple sugars for our bodies to burn off then becomes off limits because our bodies forgot how to deal with it after getting a straight shot of the refined stuff.

The word "lite" was invented about that time. Can't recall if it meant fewer calories from fat or from sugar. For sure it didn't denote lite on chemicals.

It takes some effort, but most people could find farm fresh unprocessed foods. But unless you are a canner or have lots of freezer space, keeping it thru winter and spring can be an issue.

Olean laced lays potato chips. Remember those. A chip and a laxative all in one.

“Leakage”, that word hasn’t felt safe for a long time!

RicinYakima said:

Geriatric Diabetes. Age caught up with me: potatoes twice a day, bread twice a day, sugar in my coffee and loved corn. As a chemist, I knew the risks of overloading on carbohydrates, but ignored it. It won't happen to me. So, it is meat and vegetables and small amount of fruit and all the dill pickles I can eat. p.s. Blood work is excellent, but have to calm down the liver and pancreas.

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Me too, except the chemist part.
I even had a close friend (who is a type I Diabetic) warn me for decades about all the candy I would eat, and type II diabetes being in my future if I didn't stop with the sweets ...and sugar Pop...man, I drank a lot of Mountain Dew, 6 to 10 cans a day for more than a decade.

Last night, my neighbor (who is in bankrupcy because he spends too much money) tells me he bought a ewallet (a flashdrive type of thing for cryptocurrency) for $119. He plans to buy about $100 worth of Dogecoin.
This was right after he was telling me he finds it difficult to make ends meet if he has a "short" work week.

Sugar . . . . yeah, bad juju!! Last June I got extremely sick with Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis). For those of you NOT in the deserts of the Southwest, this is a fungus that lives in the soil and when you disturb the soil and happen to breath in the fungal spore, it can attack your lungs and spread to the rest of your body if your immune system is weak and will kill you if left untreated. I was 1 week away from that point.

So, I know this is the thread drift thread but I'll keep it short.

While I was in the Hospital, they did a CAT Scan on my chest cavity. Low and behold, they found two very mild Aortic Atherosclerosis which is to basically say "slightly clogged arteries that will progress and cause a heart attack".

I said "Two?, OK I'll name them . . . Jack-in-the-Box and Carl's Jr". Carl's is the same chain as Hardy's. Anywho, I decided at that moment laying there in the hospital bed not able to breath that I needed to make a change. I was a sugar-o-holic you might say. Blood sugar crashes are a horrible feeling but I would experience it almost daily and had to keep eating to feel better.

I'm 6', 57 years old and active but weighed in at 245 lbs. I cut out all refined carbs, processed foods especially from a box. I switched to eating fresh fruit for breakfast, salads with chicken for lunch with no-sugar dressing and very little red meat. My wife has become the Keto King of cooking!

So here I am almost a year later and I'm hovering around 195-200 lbs and feel a ton better than I used to. Still fighting the Valley Fever but that is another story . . . oh, wait, this is the thread drift thread, oh never mind!

Sugar bad! Good Health - GOOD!

I am getting darn tired of friends of friends asking to buy primers from me, then having these friends of friends getting upset with me when I tell them how things are and what kind of coin they need to show me, to get some.

guy I shoot with caught me in Pokey today and we got talking powder and such.
I told him 200 for 8 lbs, and asked what he really wanted.
clay's,, yeah I think I got a jug of that.
man i'll take whatever you got that works in shot shells.
okay.

I know he is desperate, and not just looking to pile more powder into the cupboard.

How do you feed your skeet addition without powder?

Butter or margarine?

Butter ...for sure!

Miracle whip or Mayo ?

Sriracha Sauce.