eating healthier, meds suck

11/5/2007 7:14:55 AM	eating healthier, meds suck
knightnyte2 Spring, TX age: 54 online now!	my father and his 4 brothers, all had heart attacks before age 40. 1 died with his first one, the others had the open heart surgeries and lived productive lives while taking so many meds. blood pressure through the roof, diabetes.. again, Thank God, I've not had those problems. At age 35 or so, I changed my eating habits. More and more as i get older. I eat steamed veggies when i can get them, fry foods so seldom it surprises most people. I bake or grill most all my meats. And I eat loads of fresh garlic. Walmart, even the gro stores sell a little squeeze deal that you drop your garlic clove in and 'fresh garlic' comes right out.
11/5/2007 7:25:28 AM	eating healthier, meds suck
copterdriver Saint Matthews, SC age: 55 online now!	I'm with you Knight, I was working on the farm and had to pick up lunch for us a couple of times. Boy were they pissed when I brought them all salads to eat. Needless to say I was never asked to do that again... lol Med free except for aspirin.
11/5/2007 7:26:01 AM	eating healthier, meds suck
knightnyte2 Spring, TX age: 54 online now!	i've started using my electric wok more and more as well. grilling the meat before, chopping it up and using it in chinese food. or, slice raw meat up, drop it in the wok with 1 tsp of olive oil, and it cooks in just a couple min. add fresh chopped veggies (3-5 large garlic cloves squeezed), and keep stirring. I use soy sauce for flavor, or add 1/2 cup of Teriyaki sauce that you can buy at the grocery store. I use a rice cooker and use only brown rice. (not bleached to remove what vitamins and mineral value) Cooked rice will store in those plastic bags almost forever in the frig. Dont laugh, but most of my storage containers are the old glass ones, from the 20-50's. plastic does make food taste different. as stated in the thread, i steam veggies, grill most of my meat. I quit eating lettuce years ago, using baby spinach instead. I heard a report from the surgeon general years ago, saying that if America's fast food places used spinach instead of lettuce, overall health in America would go up 20-30% within months. any ideas you use? nature seems to have more healing power than doctors or many medicines.
11/5/2007 7:41:17 AM	eating healthier, meds suck
herefromminsk Charlottesville, VA age: 69	Knight - sounds like a great idea all around. I haven't procured my groceries for this week, my fridge and cupboard is bare. Garlic huh?. I understand that it retards colds. I think in my basement I have a wok, and some bamboo steamers, time to get them out. Thank you for the heads up. I have this Korean cookbook. 1001 new ways to wok your dog.
11/5/2007 7:46:37 AM	eating healthier, meds suck
copterdriver Saint Matthews, SC age: 55 online now!	Knight I think the chinese have known this for centuries. We are victims of the canners and major food producers. I eat a lot of fresh stuff and a lot of salads. My biggest problem now is the place I live in as no real kitchen so I do very little cooking. I have a Wok and a rice cooker so I knw what you mean there. that rice cooker is really so simple to use and it comes out perfect every time. I also eat wheat pasta instead of the regular pasta. Tastes the same and is a complex carb instead of a simple one. The brown rice is the same. I was reading an artice about cinnamon and what it does for glucose uptake. Seems it is very good for diabetic conditions if used properly. Garlic and olive oil are very good too. I eat a lot of olives, love the habanero stuffed ones, and it makes my good cholesterol off the scale...
11/5/2007 7:46:55 AM	eating healthier, meds suck
phucq Panama City, FL age: 65	I'm not into the garlic thing, but I'm a believer in healthy eating and exercise. A year ago when I retired, I lived entirely on fast food and junk food, and I was over weight. I suffered from daily headaches, and I was a physical wreck. I was on Lipitor for my high cholesterol, Synthroid for my low thyroid, and my blood pressure was high. After retirement, I took control of my life, and started cooking all my own food and exercising daily. After a year of eating mostly steamed vegetables and wild salmon, plus daily exercise, I lost forty pounds. I don't need any prescription meds now, my cholesterol and blood pressure are normal, and I can't remember when I had my last headache. Not only that, but I don't miss any of the crap I used to eat. Of course, I couldn't have done it when I was working, because I didn't have the time to cook three meals a day and exercise for two hours a day, not to mention that getting rid of the work stress was a big help. If you're working, then it's hard to take care of yourself properly, but if you're retired, then there is no excuse for being out of shape. I look at retirement as my new job, which is to take care of myself so I can enjoy the freedom I've earned from all those years of work. Of course, diet and exercise won't help if you still smoke, in that case you might as well just give up and die. [Edited 11/5/2007 7:54:53 AM]
11/5/2007 8:55:26 AM	eating healthier, meds suck
knightnyte2 Spring, TX age: 54 online now!	for those of you who do not own a wok, try garage sales. I've picked up a doz or so for friends for $1. Also, try the resale shops. Most are still in the original box and they cost less than $10. phu... atta-boy, for taking charge. remember, docs get 'lobby money' for distributing meds, all sorts of perks for them too. The medical companies do not want us HEALTHY. Without a steady source to sell meds to, they would be out of business!! And remember the story about the port-o-potties dumping all sorts of vitamins that are in the bottoms of them? our bodies cannot process synthetic foods or meds. But they do not tell you that. They wanna sell you more Flintstones!! My father did not change much of his eating habits until the 2nd open heart surgery. Even then, he still would eat sweets and take his 2 diabetic shots daily. Sometimes 3. whats more sad, he was the oldest living member of my family and died at age 74. Fried everything. i'm gonna live to be as old as Noah in the Bible.. bounce my 10th generation grandchildren on my knees. did you know that the bark of a willow tree is the same as asprin? boiling and making tea from it reduces swelling and aches? no, i do not do it, but there is slightly a price difference huh? i cant find the medication thread that was started, but the prices of medicines in the US are more expensive, because they CAN charge us and get away with it. My ex sis in law worked for a large pharmaceutical company from europe. she was the top dog in the US before starting her own company. psst, those little cards you drop a blood sample on, send it in for results is hers. those little computers that test blood levels for diabetic folks, are hers. anyway, i asked her why the cost of antibotics, one in particular because her company made it, cost $4 a pill here, and 50¢/pill across our southern border. Her answer was, the research cost needed to be paid, and Mexico could not afford them, so, the only market who could, was America. Wonder why congress made it illegal that people could not order meds online from Canada and Mexico?
11/5/2007 9:14:15 AM	eating healthier, meds suck
herefromminsk Charlottesville, VA age: 69	Knight - I just came across a letter that was in my wife's collection of memborillia. It was a letter, written mostly in German and dated 1817. I need to have it translated, but I could make out concoctions that could be made for Eurasylaphis, St. Vitas Dance, etc. A few of the ingreediants, bark from a flowering crabapple tree, roots from a ??bitter bush, etc. As soon as I get it deciphered, I will post it.
11/6/2007 12:01:15 PM	eating healthier, meds suck
lawvixen Oldsmar, FL age: 54 online now!	Knight, I just tried boiling the bark of a willow tree on my stove, but the tree was too big for the pot.......... HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP LOL [Edited 11/6/2007 5:26:31 PM]
11/6/2007 4:14:10 PM	eating healthier, meds suck
knightnyte2 Spring, TX age: 54 online now!	chuckling like you cant imagine, Vixen.. funny girl.
11/6/2007 5:24:06 PM	eating healthier, meds suck
queenofhearts61 Seymour, IN age: 61	I have been eating healthy for years and taking vitimans too. Now it is required because of the gastric bypass. But I have always eaten what I know to be good for me and am in good health though I am heavy. And as I am losing dropping more meds all the time.

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