THE OFFICIAL VNA EXERCIZE & FITNESS DEPARTMENT...

[lance_s]

https://www.everydayhealth.com/depressi ... pressants/

Just throwing in a thought about the benefits of running...

I've run every month for a year now and while it ain't easy... I'm slogging away at it... 10 mile run last week the most yet

10 miles - you're really doing distance runs. I stick to about 5k/run, with 8k on Saturdays, which is still only half your 10 miles.

Keep it up, it works wonders for high blood pressure and diabetes.

Strangely my blood pressure is not great despite all the running.... might need to get on medication since there's no excuse...

I am on meds too, but am going to talk to the doctor on my next visit about reducing the dosage. My readings most days are under 120/80.

[rokkerr]

https://www.everydayhealth.com/depressi ... pressants/

Just throwing in a thought about the benefits of running...

I've run every month for a year now and while it ain't easy... I'm slogging away at it... 10 mile run last week the most yet

10 miles - you're really doing distance runs. I stick to about 5k/run, with 8k on Saturdays, which is still only half your 10 miles.

Keep it up, it works wonders for high blood pressure and diabetes.

Strangely my blood pressure is not great despite all the running.... might need to get on medication since there's no excuse...

I am on meds too, but am going to talk to the doctor on my next visit about reducing the dosage. My readings most days are under 120/80.

Any side effects?

[lance_s]

https://www.everydayhealth.com/depressi ... pressants/

Just throwing in a thought about the benefits of running...

I've run every month for a year now and while it ain't easy... I'm slogging away at it... 10 mile run last week the most yet

10 miles - you're really doing distance runs. I stick to about 5k/run, with 8k on Saturdays, which is still only half your 10 miles.

Keep it up, it works wonders for high blood pressure and diabetes.

Strangely my blood pressure is not great despite all the running.... might need to get on medication since there's no excuse...

I am on meds too, but am going to talk to the doctor on my next visit about reducing the dosage. My readings most days are under 120/80.

Any side effects?

Just one - a dry hacking cough that comes on unexpectedly - the doctor had warned me of this when he prescribed the medicine. A few sips of water fix the problem. The biggest downside actually is that it interferes with my running when it comes during a jogging session.

Apart from that, I'm not even consciously aware that I'm taking the medicine. I'd forgotten about it till you mentioned blood pressure medicine in your post.

[WalterB]

120/80 isn't a bad number. Actually, that's where you want it. If you should stop your BP meds, let your Dr. dictate that. If you stop, most likely your BP will go up. So, keep an eye on it. I bought a home BP machine a few years ago. I use it, but not enough.

[Davest]

120/80 is the goal for many of us. Been on HBP meds for 30+ years (currently on three) and haven't seen 120/80 in a long, long, time.

[stickyvicky]

Damn Davest! Do you think it's genetics?

[WalterB]

I'll admit that I"m lucky to have the VA backing me up. I don't think they'd offer me surgery, like new knees. But they give me lab tests every 6 months and keep my meds up to date. I have no doubt that, if I didn't, I would be like most of us. I most likely wouldn't go. I get written lab results that I can compare with earlier reports and can look up anything that's out of limits.

[stickyvicky]

Our weight and blood pressure and all of our health problems are not always related directly to our fitness regimes.

It's what our country is doing to our people. Our government. All anyone cares about is money. For example the same companies that make Oxycontin and all the highly addictive opiates are the same companies that make Narcan. Kind of ironic don't you think?

I know a lot of people that say they never change their diets, they eat the exact same things every day when they are in Europe or in the usa. But every time they come to the USA for a couple of months they gain weight, and when they go back home they lose weight. Yet they are not doing anything different. Here is the reason why. All the extra shit that they put in our food our body doesn't know what to do with, and so it adds them to the fat cells.

When I went for Italy for 2 weeks I ate pasta every single day and I ate a lot! Yet I lost 5 lb! Imagine that over the course of several months or a year?

[lance_s]

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Our weight and blood pressure and all of our health problems are not always related directly to our fitness regimes.

It's what our country is doing to our people. Our government. All anyone cares about is money. For example the same companies that make Oxycontin and all the highly addictive opiates are the same companies that make Narcan. Kind of ironic don't you think?

I know a lot of people that say they never change their diets, they eat the exact same things every day when they are in Europe or in the usa. But every time they come to the USA for a couple of months they gain weight, and when they go back home they lose weight. Yet they are not doing anything different. Here is the reason why. All the extra shit that they put in our food our body doesn't know what to do with, and so it adds them to the fat cells.

When I went for Italy for 2 weeks I ate pasta every single day and I ate a lot! Yet I lost 5 lb! Imagine that over the course of several months or a year?

This is great Vicky. Thanks for posting.

[WalterB]

OK, it's time I started listening to the Blonde....

I've always liked Crab Salad. The 'cream' type, not like over lettuce. Not a ton. In fact, I just had my first in could be 6 - 8 years. Saw an ad that reminded me, so decided to try one. Ate that and liked it. Bought another.

So, I'm sitting here enjoying my second favorite form of entertainment. I decided to read the label. You ever read your cereal box as a kid? So what's in Crab Salad? Well, I'll tell you what AIN'T in it - CRAB!

And I quote: IMITATION CRAB then a whole long list of what makes up "imitation crab," including two other kinds of fish. SOUR CREAM, then another long list, then MAYONAISE, ANOThER long list, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Good Grief, on and on. what IS this stuff?

Oh, yeah, way down the label in small print? "Contains 2% or less of: Natural and Articificial crab flavor" Next, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Tetrasodium pyrophosphate (Doesn't 'pyro' mean FIRE?)

Then, waaaaa down at the bottom, "Contains Bioengineered Food Ingredients." OK, Now I"m REALLY feeling good. Oh, one more line; Unconditionally Guaranteed." It doesn't say against what. I"m sure that somewhere it says, "Made in China for American tables."

[stickyvicky]

Yes it's depressing when you start reading labels and finding out what's in your food.

Did you know there is nano plastic in our blood and urine samples? In almost every one of us. Less so in Europe, because of stricter regulations.

As an American, you don't stand a chance. There is nano plastic in your mother's breast milk so you start ingesting it at an early age.

This is why I hate certain politicians, because they throw out the safeguards and allow industry to do whatever they like, all in the name of "business".

[WalterB]

Been reading about that nano-plastic. And we wonder what causes cancer and all those other cute things we develop from smoking and breathing air pollution all these years.

[stickyvicky]

Plastic was an amazing invention and it has done incredible things including medical instruments but what happened with it is absolutely insane. There is plastic at the very bottom of every ocean and on the top of Every Mountain on the Earth.

Here I was thinking that I was safer and being healthier because I was drinking bottled water versus tap water. Turns out tap water is safer! ( at least as far as micto Plastics goes )

Microplastics are present in both tap water and bottled water. A study showed that an average of 325 plastic particles were found in a liter of bottled water as compared to 5.5 plastic particles per liter of tap water, according to Sherri Mason, a Penn State researcher.Aug 26, 2022

[lance_s]

OK, it's time I started listening to the Blonde....

I've always liked Crab Salad. The 'cream' type, not like over lettuce. Not a ton. In fact, I just had my first in could be 6 - 8 years. Saw an ad that reminded me, so decided to try one. Ate that and liked it. Bought another.

So, I'm sitting here enjoying my second favorite form of entertainment. I decided to read the label. You ever read your cereal box as a kid? So what's in Crab Salad? Well, I'll tell you what AIN'T in it - CRAB!

And I quote: IMITATION CRAB then a whole long list of what makes up "imitation crab," including two other kinds of fish. SOUR CREAM, then another long list, then MAYONAISE, ANOThER long list, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Good Grief, on and on. what IS this stuff?

Oh, yeah, way down the label in small print? "Contains 2% or less of: Natural and Articificial crab flavor" Next, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Tetrasodium pyrophosphate (Doesn't 'pyro' mean FIRE?)

Then, waaaaa down at the bottom, "Contains Bioengineered Food Ingredients." OK, Now I"m REALLY feeling good. Oh, one more line; Unconditionally Guaranteed." It doesn't say against what. I"m sure that somewhere it says, "Made in China for American tables."

A long time ago I used to buy "international coffees" made by General Foods

( https://clickamericana.com/topics/food- ... -1981-1988 )

I knew these were not coffees at all; I was buying junk. This was confirmed when I read the list of ingredients: silicon dioxide (aka - sand) and sodium aluminium silicate (aka clay).

[lance_s]

Plastic was an amazing invention and it has done incredible things including medical instruments but what happened with it is absolutely insane. There is plastic at the very bottom of every ocean and on the top of Every Mountain on the Earth.

Here I was thinking that I was safer and being healthier because I was drinking bottled water versus tap water. Turns out tap water is safer! ( at least as far as micto Plastics goes )

Microplastics are present in both tap water and bottled water. A study showed that an average of 325 plastic particles were found in a liter of bottled water as compared to 5.5 plastic particles per liter of tap water, according to Sherri Mason, a Penn State researcher.Aug 26, 2022

Here in Canada the Coca Cola company markets Dasani bottled water. The bottling plant is in Brampton - a suburb of Toronto. What is in the bottles is simply city of Brampton tap water packed in plastic bottles and flogged for whatever the current going rate is - over a dollar a bottle, I'm sure. So all you're getting is tap water in a plastic container.

And as for plastic being everywhere - yes, even at the bottom of the Mariana Trench - the deepest point in any ocean:

https://education.nationalgeographic.or ... an-trench/

There is nothing wrong with plastic - only with how humans use plastic.

[Davest]

Damn Davest! Do you think it's genetics?

That's absolutely a major component. HBP runs through both sides of my family. On my father's side, his father died of a massive stroke at 72. On My mom's side, she had her first stroke at 75 and died 8 years later as a result of her second one. (That's as far back as I know about on either side.) My brother and I have both been on HBP meds from our early 30s or so, and he is the most chill dude I know.

As far as the additives in our food, companies will do whatever they can get away with just like people. The bad stuff is all in our food for a reason; it makes it taste better, or last longer before going bad, or it makes the item cheaper. Healthier alternatives exist for almost everything, but they are not popular. We are our own worst enemies (queue the song by Lit).

[stickyvicky]

I know and it really sucks that healthy food is so much more expensive than junk food, the other day I went to Publix and just bought a couple of apples and oranges and it was $13.

[Porsing_22]

OK, it's time I started listening to the Blonde....

I've always liked Crab Salad. The 'cream' type, not like over lettuce. Not a ton. In fact, I just had my first in could be 6 - 8 years. Saw an ad that reminded me, so decided to try one. Ate that and liked it. Bought another.

So, I'm sitting here enjoying my second favorite form of entertainment. I decided to read the label. You ever read your cereal box as a kid? So what's in Crab Salad? Well, I'll tell you what AIN'T in it - CRAB!

And I quote: IMITATION CRAB then a whole long list of what makes up "imitation crab," including two other kinds of fish. SOUR CREAM, then another long list, then MAYONAISE, ANOThER long list, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Good Grief, on and on. what IS this stuff?

Oh, yeah, way down the label in small print? "Contains 2% or less of: Natural and Articificial crab flavor" Next, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Tetrasodium pyrophosphate (Doesn't 'pyro' mean FIRE?)

Then, waaaaa down at the bottom, "Contains Bioengineered Food Ingredients." OK, Now I"m REALLY feeling good. Oh, one more line; Unconditionally Guaranteed." It doesn't say against what. I"m sure that somewhere it says, "Made in China for American tables."

A long time ago I used to buy "international coffees" made by General Foods

( https://clickamericana.com/topics/food- ... -1981-1988 )

I knew these were not coffees at all; I was buying junk. This was confirmed when I read the list of ingredients: silicon dioxide (aka - sand) and sodium aluminium silicate (aka clay).

No need to be afraid of 'sand' and 'clay' in your coffee, lance. They pass right through your system after you have enjoyed your coffee (they're kind of inorganic 'fiber'). They are insoluble in your 'interior', and the particles are too large to pass into your cells (as opposed to what's believed to happen with the 'modern' infamous nanoplastics particles).
The 'sand' and 'clay' are in your coffee POWDER in order to make it easily and quickly soluble in the hot water (and even in only moderately hot water).
As a regular user of coffee powder, I do remember ye ol' days, BEFORE the 'suspects' were added, and I'm happy they are in it today :
Then, all too often, a brown sticky 'glue' formed on the spoon or in the cup, when making the coffee, which only very slowly dissolved. And, which also formed after some time and (moderate) humidity when the coffee powder in your coffee glass/box had been lumping together, forcing you to use hammer and chisel to get your ingredient out of the box for making your next coffee - or throw the brown, solid (coffee smelling) lump of (former) powder away.
So, the silicon dioxide (aka - sand) and sodium aluminium silicate (aka clay) are there for convenience, and prolonging shelf life of the powder. It's not added FOR your health, but it's not working against it either, as far as I know. (And they are, most probably, present in all other brands of coffee powder too).

So, please enjoy your coffee !

[stickyvicky]

Apparently it's in almost everything that is powdered? We just didn't know it:
egg powder, milk powder, cocoa powder, cocoa butter, powdered sugar, vegetable fat powder, instant coffee, powdered soup seasonings, and all powdered flavorings.

[lance_s]

OK, it's time I started listening to the Blonde....

I've always liked Crab Salad. The 'cream' type, not like over lettuce. Not a ton. In fact, I just had my first in could be 6 - 8 years. Saw an ad that reminded me, so decided to try one. Ate that and liked it. Bought another.

So, I'm sitting here enjoying my second favorite form of entertainment. I decided to read the label. You ever read your cereal box as a kid? So what's in Crab Salad? Well, I'll tell you what AIN'T in it - CRAB!

And I quote: IMITATION CRAB then a whole long list of what makes up "imitation crab," including two other kinds of fish. SOUR CREAM, then another long list, then MAYONAISE, ANOThER long list, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Good Grief, on and on. what IS this stuff?

Oh, yeah, way down the label in small print? "Contains 2% or less of: Natural and Articificial crab flavor" Next, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Tetrasodium pyrophosphate (Doesn't 'pyro' mean FIRE?)

Then, waaaaa down at the bottom, "Contains Bioengineered Food Ingredients." OK, Now I"m REALLY feeling good. Oh, one more line; Unconditionally Guaranteed." It doesn't say against what. I"m sure that somewhere it says, "Made in China for American tables."

A long time ago I used to buy "international coffees" made by General Foods

( https://clickamericana.com/topics/food- ... -1981-1988 )

I knew these were not coffees at all; I was buying junk. This was confirmed when I read the list of ingredients: silicon dioxide (aka - sand) and sodium aluminium silicate (aka clay).

No need to be afraid of 'sand' and 'clay' in your coffee, lance. They pass right through your system after you have enjoyed your coffee (they're kind of inorganic 'fiber'). They are insoluble in your 'interior', and the particles are too large to pass into your cells (as opposed to what's believed to happen with the 'modern' infamous nanoplastics particles).
The 'sand' and 'clay' are in your coffee POWDER in order to make it easily and quickly soluble in the hot water (and even in only moderately hot water).
As a regular user of coffee powder, I do remember ye ol' days, BEFORE the 'suspects' were added, and I'm happy they are in it today :
Then, all too often, a brown sticky 'glue' formed on the spoon or in the cup, when making the coffee, which only very slowly dissolved. And, which also formed after some time and (moderate) humidity when the coffee powder in your coffee glass/box had been lumping together, forcing you to use hammer and chisel to get your ingredient out of the box for making your next coffee - or throw the brown, solid (coffee smelling) lump of (former) powder away.
So, the silicon dioxide (aka - sand) and sodium aluminium silicate (aka clay) are there for convenience, and prolonging shelf life of the powder. It's not added FOR your health, but it's not working against it either, as far as I know. (And they are, most probably, present in all other brands of coffee powder too).

So, please enjoy your coffee !

Oh, I know my body wouldn't be able to digest them. My body can't digest the silver foil used to decorate Indian sweets, either (look it up if you don't what I'm talking about). But I'm much more OK with ingesting pure silver than sand or clay.

I just think humanity has evolved to a sad stage when we need all these chemicals just for the sake of convenience. Oh and I just read that "silver" foil is often adulterated now, so I'd better stay away from that too.