Health Advice/Discussion

bmwracer wrote:
Yup.

After I found out that my cholesterol was high (260), I completely changed my diet, increasing my fruit, vegetable, and complex carbohydrate/fiber consumption and cutting down to near-zero my starch, sugar, and red meat consumption... Now my cholesterol level is at 140. :victory:

good for you! most people would turn to a lipitor cocktail. :shakehead:
preventative medicine is the best choice. do it before you're in your 40's and suffering from chest pain.

lilly_pad wrote:good for you! most people would turn to a lipitor cocktail. :shakehead:

Yeah, that's what my HMO doctor tried to do, but I asked for an alternative route...

do it before you're in your 40's

Too late, already there. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
Too late, already there. :beaten:

well then, i'll use the adage "better late than never"

lilly_pad wrote:well then, i'll use the adage "better late than never"

My thoughts exactly... Hopefully, I can reverse those many years of food decadence... :sweat:

wew. i've decided to stop eating red meat since this whole diet thing. and i ain't even twenty yet. dang my life sucks. but whatever i'll live. Beem, website on diabetes that someone posted before also said that carbo raises cholesterol lvl. and i was wonderin... what are the difference between starch, ordinary carbo and complex carbo? :beaten: i don't eat rice as much as i used to and start eatin those whole wheat breads

:bonk: the new diet round starts tomorrow. 88kg now and target's 85 before new year...

:victory:

monta wrote:Beem, website on diabetes that someone posted before also said that carbo raises cholesterol lvl.

I think that has to do with what they call the "glycemic index"

Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index

and i was wonderin... what are the difference between starch, ordinary carbo and complex carbo? :beaten: i don't eat rice as much as i used to and start eatin those whole wheat breads

More Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate :)

if anyone is interested in living a quality life in old age, i would recommend reading "the Okinawa program" by Drs. Wilcox and Dr. Makoto Suzuki.

this book is based on a 25 year study on okinawan diets. there is a higher percentage of centenarians there in comparison to other regions of the world, and it really makes you think there must be something other than genetics involved. healthy recipes, stretching exercises, and a month-long menu is included.

lilly_pad wrote:if anyone is interested in living a quality life in old age, i would recommend reading "the Okinawa program" by Drs. Wilcox and Dr. Makoto Suzuki.

this book is based on a 25 year study on okinawan diets. there is a higher percentage of centenarians there in comparison to other regions of the world, and it really makes you think there must be something other than genetics involved. healthy recipes, stretching exercises, and a month-long menu is included.

Ahhhhh no wonder! I've been watching Churasan, where the granny (oba) is often shown doing stetches and exersizes, and the food they eat is unlike anything I've seen in a Jdorama. The characters who visit the house in Okinawa also make comments about the food being different, and ultimately healthy. Goya, of course, comes to mind. Bittermelon plays a huge role in South Asian cooking as well.

Wynter wrote:Ahhhhh no wonder! I've been watching Churasan, where the granny (oba) is often shown doing stetches and exersizes, and the food they eat is unlike anything I've seen in a Jdorama. The characters who visit the house in Okinawa also make comments about the food being different, and ultimately healthy. Goya, of course, comes to mind. Bittermelon plays a huge role in South Asian cooking as well.

It also helps that where they live is pretty much free from pollution and other city-related problems.

bmwracer wrote:
It also helps that where they live is pretty much free from pollution and other city-related problems.

A tremendous help, that's for sure.

Wynter wrote:A tremendous help, that's for sure.

And more and more harder to find. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
And more and more harder to find. :sweat:

It's sad, really. I mean, if you go outside and look straight at the horizon, the sky is murky and brown. You really have to look directly up to realize that the sky is in fact blue. It's a really sobering look. :sweat:

Wants to have a good air???
It's hard these days to get a good air...

However, there is a tricky way but not using any mask...

It is hard to make a good garden in most of the big cities.
There is not enough land to plant something...

Have you heard something called miniature garden???
Even a child can make it...
Simply buy a big aquarium, no matter size, and you can just plant little size plant in that aquarium...
It will make you fresher, and gives you some good air in the room, but beware, in the night put that out, you do not want to just fighting over air with your plants...

At least that is what I am doing back then, 3 weeks ago...

Wynter wrote:

It's sad, really. I mean, if you go outside and look straight at the horizon, the sky is murky and brown. You really have to look directly up to realize that the sky is in fact blue. It's a really sobering look. :sweat:

girl you should go down to this country :beaten: :hehe:

monta wrote:

girl you should go down to this country :beaten: :hehe:

What country is that?

Wynter wrote:

What country is that?

Could it be the flag furls around after the country word???

As expected, my sore throat didn't last more than a day, thanks to the warm salt water gargles... :victory:

But it did go uptown: I'm congested and my nose is running like a leaky faucet. :bleh:

Wynter wrote:

What country is that?

the one holding the Global Warming Climate Change Solution on UNFCCC Bali but has the biggest forest-destruction in the world

Daichi Kai wrote:Could it be the flag furls around after the country word???

we have to be proud my friend... proud...

bmwracer wrote:As expected, my sore throat didn't last more than a day, thanks to the warm salt water gargles... :victory:

Cool! :applaud:

But it did go uptown: I'm congested and my nose is running like a leaky faucet. :bleh:

No so cool. :bleh: I hope you feel better soon. :hug:
And that you have copious amounts of tissues. :hehe:

Keps wrote:No so cool. :bleh: I hope you feel better soon. :hug:
And that you have copious amounts of tissues. :hehe:

Exactly: I went to the store and loaded up on a few more boxes... :sweat: