Food is my friend, tranquilizer, sleeping pill,sad isn't it? Also substitute for sex! Only two vices left for me food and cigs! I know that is terrible, guess I better stock up on depends.
According to every report ever written, being overweight is the cause of everything. Not just the usual stuff like diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, but cancer, hair loss, hair growth, and now DEMENTIA. I have written blogs based upon articles that short arms and short legs also put you at risk of dementia. I may as well pack it in now and place myself in a dementia ward somewhere, because I am also doomed. And fat.
Well, I guess I'm in danger too- gained 25 or more pounds since DH's diagnosis. We were both always fit and thin until he was diagnosed-he gained weight due to seroquel, I gained weight due to stress. Doesn't explain why he got ALZ.
I don't know where they come up with these studies. Next week it's something else. Let's face it we're all bound to die not matter what, that's life. I don't believe any of those studies. I don't think they have anything better to do. They need to spend more time finding cures for all these horrible diseases.
And the other day at a doctor's office, ( hubby had to get some check up for the VA) when I told the doc he has moderate ALZ the doc said he read an article the other day that claimed coconut or coconut oil helps the memory...and frogs fly.
Most people I know with AD or other dementias are thin or normal weight. If I listened to my risk factors I might as well kill myself. I have PCOS which means I am at more risk for diabetes and ovarian cancer. I have never been pregnant nor nursed a baby so I am at a higher risk for cervical, uterine and breast cancer. A sister had breast cancer = higher risk. A brother had colon cancer = higher risk. My dad was an alcoholic = greater tendency for addiction to drugs or alcohol. CHD runs on my mom's side as does senile dementia so greater risk there. I drink diet drinks with aspartame which has numerous side effects. I am short and now grossly obese (due to the 50 pounds I put on after diagnosis) so I am at a greater risk for everything under the sun!!
Bam! I'm just doing this for your own good. What a trooper!
I'm so inspired I'm going to help by throwing my body at the polled pork and philly cheese steak sandwiches. Look out! There's one now! (dives face first into the pork bbq'd all day rubbed with secret ingredients and smothered in sauce pulled gently apart and piled on toasted breadlike material)
Look, just a few years ago they interviewed the oldest living man in New York state. He was 115 and after 90 he narrowed down his diet to bread fried in fatback with 4 gallons of thunderbird wine a week. That's all he ate for 25 years. When asked why not use bacon grease he said it was too lean. If a doctor had gotten near him he would have killed him in a week. That's a true story.
The thing we need is more stress. So if we're overweight and even if that's a lot - what we need to do is feel really bad about ourselves and work that guilt. Really bad. No, REALLY bad. You're not trying.
I'm smoking as I type. My keyboard has more ash in it than Mt St Helens. Keyboards are very sensitive. No. They're not. I have coffee inside mine too. Been around for years. Been doing this for decades.
I cough less than most of the people around me. I'm going to die of lung cancer. So what?
Answer one question. Is milk good or bad for you? Nobody knows. Moderation shmoderation. Think out of the box. Throw the scales out. Let go of that biafran heroin look they're going for these days where nobody has a nice behind and bikini bottoms are kept up with double face tape because there's nothing to latch on to.
Let go of the nagging guilt and realize that on a dessert island you're going to last a lot longer than the skinny person. Some bodies store food; and big way back there was highly prized because it implied strong babies.
Tune out the constant barrage and realize nobody fits the body image except supermodels and they often have serious problems.
Count the number of people that died because they're fat. I don't know anyone. The perception is like smokers though. "Oh, Wolf died." "Well, he smoked." "Yah, but he was eaten by a shark."
Don't believe it. Look around. The oddest people have died early. That's the reality. It's pretty random.
Don't worry. Be happy. You eat like a bird. Eat! It's good to be alive and I hear the pralines and cream is excellent. Have the blueberry in a pie smothered in ice cream with whipped cream on top just to be sure. And please, please. Feel good about it. You're you anyways (puff puff).
Wolf...I just knew you would "weigh in" on this one!!!! Well said, as for me I'm crossing the street without looking, my stress relief! (just kidding everyone)
Thanks for the laughs Wolf! This study is just a tad far fetched, as I can think of several people who were not at all overweight in their lives,and kept very active, and excercised their brains...but still manged to be diagnosed with AD.
Monday, May 9, 2011 - I invite you to log onto the home page - www.thealzheimerspouse.com - and read the reprint of a blog I wrote 3 years ago about all of these stupid studies. Many of our newer members have probably not read it.
I gave up listening to those so called experts years ago. The studies never made any sense to me. Proves they are no experts, don't have any real tangable facts to support those studies. So heres to more chocolates!!!
Oh now I know why I always come here. Joan I read your blog and was smiling. Then I got on this talk board to thank you and read Wolf, now I am laughing out loud. Thank you for raising my spirits here in the rainy/snowy pacific nw.