Healthy Resolutions 2019

Karen W said:
I have a few specific health issues that I should follow up with with a specialist, but I've been putting off. Have been disappointed with the medical care here in the past.

Re mental health for the new year, I may need to move away from cooking-related sites. One site in particular, has been very off-putting and has caused me undue stress and grief. I have not contributed there for a long time. When I looked back, I noticed that no matter what cooking related site I went to, my every dish, word, even down to punctuation marks were repeated there over and over again by a specific person & persons. Not once or twice, but ongoing for 2 to 3 years. Not only did these persons copy me, but try to one-up me while pooping on my post at the same time. It creeped me out. It has reached a point, where I consider seeking an attorney's advice, or leaving the internet altogether. I left certain cooking sites, and joined others. Nothing changed…

There is no contact information for the owner of the site.
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Can you just ignore the posters? Works for me. Copying you means they want to be you.

Russ
 
CraigC said:
More vitamin B12!:drink:
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After a blood test last year, random thing my doc asked me to do. It came back everything was normal, except my b12 levels. I bought a bottle of b12 . 1 drop on the tongue every day should bring me back. He said as you get older the stomach uses all the b12 until we get a lack of it. I eat lots of meat, but still listen to my doc.

Russ
 
rascal said:
After a blood test last year, random thing my doc asked me to do. It came back everything was normal, except my b12 levels. I bought a bottle of b12 . 1 drop on the tongue every day should bring me back. He said as you get older the stomach uses all the b12 until we get a lack of it. I eat lots of meat, but still listen to my doc.

Russ
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Marmite! Or perhaps Vegemite in NZ.
 
I'm on the loose weight side of things as well but am going through episodes of extreme tiredness and end up eating to stay awake during the day . Plus over Christmas we have our wedding anniversary and two days later 2 family birthdays so just keeping the same weight isn't easy and I didn't bit I only put 1kg on. However I need to lose 10kg this year after my operation last year which caused me to put it on .

So losing weight and we are doing an eat out of the cupboards month because we have way too much in them and need the space back . But it's been much more of an eat out of the freezer month so far ,but that's OK. The freezer needs emptying as well!
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
we are doing an eat out of the cupboards month because we have way too much in them and need the space back . But it's been much more of an eat out of the freezer month so far ,but that's OK. The freezer needs emptying as well!
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I think I also need to do that. Another New Year's Resolution to add to the list!
 
rascal said:
After a blood test last year, random thing my doc asked me to do. It came back everything was normal, except my b12 levels. I bought a bottle of b12 . 1 drop on the tongue every day should bring me back. He said as you get older the stomach uses all the b12 until we get a lack of it. I eat lots of meat, but still listen to my doc.

Russ
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The B12 I take comes in 12 ounce bottles and usually has hops as an ingredient.:drink::woot:
 
My colleagues have started talking about slimming world, weighing food, cheats etc..this I could not do, life is far too short. I appreciate their want to lose weight but they will soon get bored and go back to the wine/gin/kebabs/chips and what-have-you. Happens every year.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I've also got to get my iron, potassium and essential fatty acids up .all have been found to be too low!
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@SatNavSaysStraightOn
Potassium is a much-overlooked but highly-important mineral: it controls indirectly the heart-beat. Over ten years ago, upon telling my Dr. I used "No-Salt" (Potassium Chloride) exclusively on my food, he incorrectly asked me not to, claiming the "window" for Potassium intake was much narrower than Sodium. In fact, the recommended daily adult requirement for Potassium is twice that of Sodium at 4,000 mg.
Some Drs recommend eating bananas as they are rich in Potassium. It only takes 40 bananas to total the daily req.! A few shakes of No-Salt a day takes care of much of the requirement. If you like salty.........

Other products are on the shelves called "Light Salt", combinations of common table salt and Potassium Chloride, but the ratio is unknown. Potassium Chloride pellets are sold by the bag for use in water softeners as a substitute for regular salt. I bought a 40 lb. bag for eight dollars, crushed the pellets, and salted my food with it for years! The source was a huge deposit in Canada of 99+% pure Potassium Chloride.
 
impish said:
@SatNavSaysStraightOn
Potassium is a much-overlooked but highly-important mineral: it controls indirectly the heart-beat. Over ten years ago, upon telling my Dr. I used "No-Salt" (Potassium Chloride) exclusively on my food, he incorrectly asked me not to, claiming the "window" for Potassium intake was much narrower than Sodium. In fact, the recommended daily adult requirement for Potassium is twice that of Sodium at 4,000 mg.
Some Drs recommend eating bananas as they are rich in Potassium. It only takes 40 bananas to total the daily req.! A few shakes of No-Salt a day takes care of much of the requirement. If you like salty.........

Other products are on the shelves called "Light Salt", combinations of common table salt and Potassium Chloride, but the ratio is unknown. Potassium Chloride pellets are sold by the bag for use in water softeners as a substitute for regular salt. I bought a 40 lb. bag for eight dollars, crushed the pellets, and salted my food with it for years! The source was a huge deposit in Canada of 99+% pure Potassium Chloride.
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It is very easy to have too much or not enough of vitamins or minerals because very few people read ingredient lists on food packets and tins.
 
impish said:
Potassium is a much-overlooked but highly-important mineral: it controls indirectly the heart-beat.
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I was recently found to be low on potassium and I have an issue with atrial fibrillation so I now take a supplement.

Re salt, I must dig up the thread about the 'the salt myth' - you may find that interesting.
 
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impish said:
@SatNavSaysStraightOn
Potassium is a much-overlooked but highly-important mineral: it controls indirectly the heart-beat. Over ten years ago, upon telling my Dr. I used "No-Salt" (Potassium Chloride) exclusively on my food, he incorrectly asked me not to, claiming the "window" for Potassium intake was much narrower than Sodium. In fact, the recommended daily adult requirement for Potassium is twice that of Sodium at 4,000 mg.
Some Drs recommend eating bananas as they are rich in Potassium. It only takes 40 bananas to total the daily req.! A few shakes of No-Salt a day takes care of much of the requirement. If you like salty.........

Other products are on the shelves called "Light Salt", combinations of common table salt and Potassium Chloride, but the ratio is unknown. Potassium Chloride pellets are sold by the bag for use in water softeners as a substitute for regular salt. I bought a 40 lb. bag for eight dollars, crushed the pellets, and salted my food with it for years! The source was a huge deposit in Canada of 99+% pure Potassium Chloride.
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I don't do salt and certainly don't do "artificial salt" such as lo-salt. I can't eat bananas because of a medical condition. I also have another medical condition that prevents me from balancing sodium and potassium in the blood stream. I spend most of my life hypokalaemic yet asymptomatic for the large part. As a result I now have to take 4 potassium tablets a day. Each tablet provides 600mg of elemental potassium and despite this every time I get ill (even a cold) my potassium levels will plummet dramatically and I will end up taking 9 or more tablets a day. Several times recently I have ended up requiring IV potassium which hurts chronically whilst being administered. It can take days of IV potassium to get my levels to even "safe" low levels after one of these episodes. And yet I cook everything from scratch (I have to ,I have a fatal allergy to any dairy product) and have a very healthy diet though I have just been informed by my doctor that I need to include more fats in my diet! My main dietary source of potassium is from blackstrap molasses (2 tsp provides some 18% of the RDA of potassium) and from vegetables, mainly greens which are all home-grown and picked fresh.
morning glory said:
I was recently found to be low on potassium and I have an issue with atrial fibrillation so I now thake a suppllment
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Is your supplement an off the shelf one or a prescription one? I'm just curious incase we do return to the UK at the end of 4 years. And what level of potassium does it give you. I have to take 2,400mg potassium a day unless I'm ill in which case it's much higher .
 
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