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My Grandpa diet

Started by Bibbyman, July 29, 2015, 06:51:49 PM

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Darrel

About 5 years ago my wife was having some issues with her heart so I drove the 160 + miles and took her to a cardiologist.  The man walks into the room with her lab results in his hand and the first words out of his mouth were, "stop eating so much pasta."  The next words out of his mouth were, "Don't look at me like that.  Everybody with triglycerides this high eats way too much pasta." 

Long story short, we took him seriously and cut  the pasta to once or twice a month and then it was whole wheat. We started eating a diet very much like Bibbyman 's grandpa diet.  To date, my wife is 50 pounds lighter and I'm 40 pounds lighter. 

Leaving junk food totally out of the picture and looking at the remainder, the unhealthy food is healthier for you than the healthy food. 
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SwampDonkey

Same scenario with butter vs margarine. The fad years ago was pushing margarine. These days it's back on butter and actually some dairies reporting shortages. I don't know where though ;D , the only time when butter (and it will be a brand name) is gone from the shelves is when it's on for $3.00 a lb versus $5.50 . When the $3 stuff is sold, there's still the $5.50 stuff on the shelf.  ;D 8) You can't put much faith or acceptance in talking heads on the radio. Sometimes just bla bla bla is news. :D
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Bibbyman

Quote from: SwampDonkey on December 18, 2015, 05:06:45 AM
Same scenario with butter vs margarine. The fad years ago was pushing margarine. These days it's back on butter and actually some dairies reporting shortages. I don't know where though ;D , the only time when butter (and it will be a brand name) is gone from the shelves is when it's on for $3.00 a lb versus $5.50 . When the $3 stuff is sold, there's still the $5.50 stuff on the shelf.  ;D 8) You can't put much faith or acceptance in talking heads on the radio. Sometimes just bla bla bla is news. :D

Mary buys raw milk, farm eggs and in season produce from a local farmer.  He has to be well in his 70s but milks 6 cows by hand, his wife pretty much runs the egg business,  and he puts our a big truck patch every year, raises strawberries,  has fruit orchard,  makes maple syrup on and on. His sons talk like he eats about a pound of butter a day. They are likely exaggerating but I'm sure he eats more butter than recommend.

I'm still doing well on my grandpa diet despite Mary's efforts to wreck it.  On these nasty winter days, she'll get the urge to bake some dessert.    She got to where she was baking something every day. Far more than we needed or could use.  It's impossible to smell something baking and have it available and not indulge.  I finally had to tell her to stop.  She did for about a week. Now she's decided she can bake breads. Not  nearly as diet destructive as desserts.

Despite my efforts to keep my blood pressure down through diet and exercise,  I've had spikes in blood pressure.   I think I've found the cause.   Seems each time we eat at this one cajon catfish restaurant,  my blood pressure jumps to a serious level.  I'm thinking they must use MSG or something in their food.
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Bibbyman

Here are three diet items I do that maybe helps and I'm sure doesn't hurt.

1) I drink a lot of green tea.  Almost exclusively throughout the day.  I make it hot in the microwave and drink it hot about six months of the year.   As the weather heats up,  I have hot green tea with breakfast and then make another cup and let it set and cool.  Then I dump it in a glass with ice. I brew another cup and it's cool by the time I'm ready for another glass. Suppose to be a lot of health benefits to green tea.  I think they're on to something. 

I'm not particularly fond of green tea but I'm convenienced it's helped keep my blood pressure down and it's one DanG sight healthier than medications. 

2) Raw apple cider vinegar with mother.  I get up in the night and guzzle a big glass of water with about a table spoon of ACV.   Not real tastie but is said to be a general healt benefit.  1001 claims with some studies backing some of them up.  Old time cure for urinary problems.  It also is a natural insect repellent as it changes the chemical balance of your sweat. 

3)  Cinnamon is said to stimulate the liver to moderate blood sugar levels.   I sprinkle a little on my toast and for sure on my fried apples.   Test have been inconclusive that cinnamon actually works to lower blood sugar but my blood sugar has been holding in a lower range.   
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4x4American

I've heard of that acv being nothing but good, sure doesn't taste it though! lol

Boy, back in my day..

SwampDonkey

Quote from: 4x4American on May 12, 2016, 04:42:23 AM
I've heard of that acv being nothing but good, sure doesn't taste it though! lol

Some claims are apparently true, but a lot is quackery to. And too much can be damaging to your stomach to.
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Raider Bill

You are supposed to rinse good after as the ACV eats away at the enamel on your teeth.
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SwampDonkey

"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

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Bibbyman

Yes, be careful with ACV and dilute it with lots of water.  I've been drinking it for years and haven't rinsed after drinking it.  I get dental checkups every 6 months and if I've lost any enamel,  they haven't mentioned it.

http://youtu.be/e8NlGrbYAVU

Vinegar is power stuff. I tried a rust removal trick using one part white vinegar to four parts water to remove rust from steel. I bought most of an old shotgun at flea market price. It was heavily crusted with rust. I use an ultrasonic cleaner to help.  As you see from video, it really dissolved the rust.
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4x4American

I'll have to mention it to my little sister, she uses it as salad dressing!

I can't see the video, but I think it's just my phone being slow.  Will check it later from computer next time I get on.
Boy, back in my day..

Bibbyman

My folks used vinegar on cooked spinach.  The kept a little decanter of vinegar on the table as long as I can remember.   I started noticing dad would measure out a tea spoon full and put it in a glass of water that he drank with his meal.  I asked him why but he didn't explain.

My Aunt had reoccurring gaul stones.  The doctor recommend she add vinegar to her diet.

It must be getting popular.   The only place we could find raw apple cider vinegar was at Amish and Mennonite country stores.  Now Walmart is stocking it.
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Raider Bill

I put vinegar on cooked greens, cabbage, strawberrys and baked beans.
The First 70 years of childhood is always the hardest.

SwampDonkey

While you folks eat spinach with vinegar on it we have always had cider vinegar on ostrich fern fiddle heads as they are picked fresh this time of year in the woods. I don't think they are quite up yet in my woods. We grow Swiss chard and I have grown spinach, but it heads too soon compared to chard.  :)
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thecfarm

My parents had a decanter of vinegar too. They used it on dandelions greens. I really don't remember about spinach. That was one of the few things that I got away with not eating.Two of the grand kids LOVE cucumbers and vinegar.
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Bibbyman

If you watch Netflix,   check out a video named "Suger Coated".   It's a commentary on the health risk associated with the increase in sugar consumption and the politics involved.   
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SwampDonkey

Secrets of Sugar is another done by CBC.
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Straightgrain

Well done (no pun).  ;D

Your success is inspiring; I hope sharing my success isn't seen as a thread highjack.:

I quit eating gluten, white pork meat, and dairy products (except butter) two years ago; I quit eating eggs a month ago, and I don't miss them (a bit) because it seems to be reducing  inflammation in my system. Inflammation is a huge culprit of pain. 

I wrap my grass-fed burgers in lettuce  smiley_thumbsup

Reducing the acidic foods raises the pH ratio in most bodies; many cancers thrive in acidic environments.

Funny how the pork industry uses "the other white meat" as a marketing slogan when white pork meat is acidic; red pork meat has a higher ph.

Modern dairy products and wheats coat the intestines and restrict the flow of good nutrients entering into the bloodstream. The brain needs clean blood to carry oxygen and nutrients for optimal thinking.

Almond and cashew milk have been suitable replacements.

Eat whole foods and read the labels.

I recommend getting the heavy metals out of your system too; (chelation). I take zinc tabs and a cap of apple cider vinegar with a glass of water every AM.
"We fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them". Joseph Schumpeter

Straightgrain

Quote from: Ianab on August 03, 2015, 06:18:28 AM
Here you go. Eggs are now not the root of all evil.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/70763544/could-two-eggs-a-day-keep-the-doctor-away

Study by Sydney University of people with type 2 diabetes. Some ate 2 eggs a day, the others didn't. No change in cholesterol or blood sugars. Only effect noticed was a slight improvement in the "good" cholesterol level, but not enough to be significant. (Just enough to get more funding for another study probably  ;) :) )

Here's what I have found about eggs; the eggs were fine for many people until the egg-whites were turned into "Trojan Horses" for the immunization industries. Depending on how many immunizations a person has been given...the body may not be able to differentiate the egg-white (good food) from an injected virus. The body reacting to viruses may be normal (even beneficial) in the natural sense....but every time egg white is injested our bodies could be going into a white blood cell manufacturing (trama) mode.

For older people or a so-called free range children; egg whites may not be a problem, but for people like myself; with 8 or 9 pages of shot records, eggs were causing problems I didn't know about until I got off them.

An egg-white hiatus may be worth a try.
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Bibbyman

We are taking retirement seriously.  That means the mill has weeds growing up inside and the log lot has grown over in grass.  That also means Mary and I are traveling more and eating out more.

Eating out is a diet killer. We still try to pick our cafes and eat light.

Sunday we were on the road and made an effort to make it to a roadside cafe in a small village.  But we got there too late and the parking lot was full of church goers. So we decided to drive on. Got about 20 minutes from home and Mary suggested we pull into a mini-mall and get some Chinese takeout.  Ok.  She got an order of sweet and sour soup and two lunch size chicken something or other dinners. 

We got home about 2:00 and split the soup and had egg roll each.  Before soup was totally consumed,  I added 3-4 dumpling size chunks of chicken and a couple of spoons full of rice.  I was full.

It wasn't long before I started feeling like crap.  I took my BP and it was elevated to the danger point.  I took it again about 8:00 and it was way over the danger point - 186/118.  I have some medication left and took 1/4 of one pill. This is usually enough to knock my BP back down.

I went to bed and tossed and turned until past midnight.  My BP  was still dangerously high. I took another 1/4 pill. By morning my BP had fallen some.  I got out and took three good walks during the day and tried to keep active despite feeling like crap.  I don't know if it was the high BP or the medication because the medication makes me feel like crap too.

By afternoon I was getting better BP scores. I slept reasonably well. Yesterday my BP continued to fall and by mid-afternoon dropped to really good point.

So....  what d'hell happened?   I suspect MSG in the Chinese food. 

My BP spikes from time to time and I started to associate it with eating at a cajun catfish place.  They have cajun seasoning on the table and I coat my catfish with it.  Also my roasted corn on the cob and put sum in my red beans and rice.  The last couple of visits I have left the cajun seasoning in the little boat. There is probably some still in the food served but not the overdose I had been getting.
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thecfarm

Chinese food? Follow the food delivery truck and the same truck stops at the chinese food places. They just season it diffeant.
MSG?? I have no idea how to prove it is used,but when I eat chinese food I start to sneeze. Just like eating at the stepson house. They serve prepared food and that will get me sneezing too.
We don't eat alot of prepared foods. Pizza does not seem to bother me. We don't eat out much in a sit down restaurant. Seem like italians and pizza is our on the road food. There is place called Red Barn that we go to. They deep fry chicken and sea food. That is wicked good.
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Bibbyman

Although more of our foods are coming from China and this will likely increase,  obviously,  I'm pointing a finger at MSG. 

While in don't believe in studies, here is one that is condemning of MSG.

http://universityhealthnews.com/daily/nutrition/7-alarming-msg-side-effects/

Then you can find testimony that MSG actually lowers blood pressure!  So what to believe?   Mary only knew about the restaurant by recommendation from her sister.  While Mary was waiting for her order, a couple eating there just raved about the food.  They use to eat there all the time but moved so only get there on occasion.  It didn't seem to effect Mary.   Maybe I'm 1 in 1000 that MSG effects?
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LeeB

You're not the only one. MSG makes me dizzy, blurs my vision, and gives me the squirts.
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Bibbyman

I'm still able to control my blood pressure with diet and exercise.   But I continue to experience spikes in my blood pressure.    I can almost always trace it back to MSG or sodium nitrate or nitrite.   

Mary had gotten into the habit of buying cured meats.  It all has large amounts of sodium nitrates and a long list of other chemicals.  I protested enough and showed her what it was doing to my blood pressure levels that she finally "got it" and stopped buying meats laced with this junk.

We shop at ALDI for much of our groceries.   The good news is that they are on a campaign to eliminate certain chemicals in their foods.  Sodium nitrate is one of them. But that's not been enough.   We get bacon that is free of nitrates but is loaded with sea salt and celery powder that naturally contain nitrates.

Yesterday morning I took one slice, JUST ONE SLICE, of my nitrate free bacon and put it in one cup of water for a half an hour.  I took the bacon out and sipped the water.  It was saturated with salt - at least as strong as you would gargle with.  You for sure wouldn't drink it.

I have to read the ingredients on everything.  She was feeding me some cheese crackers day after day and my blood pressure was elevated.  Yep, the last third of the list of ingredients were straight out of a chemistry lab.

She began to buy bulk sausage from the local store that has their own butcher shop.   By blood pressure was running bad again.  The label didn't list ingredients.  Next time I dropped her off at the store,  I asked her to ask the butcher for a list of ingredients.   She did. He didn't know - they just use a packaged seasoning mix.  She asked to see the package.  Yep... all the crap was in the mix.

For the past week I've been really watching my diet and my blood pressure levels have been the best of the year.  But Christmas is on us and I know we'll be eating foods that I can't know what's in them.
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sawguy21

Morning Bib, good to see you again. I tend to view a lot of the vegan/vegetarian/paleo/ whatever diets with a jaundiced eye but do recognize that some people have legitimate dietary restrictions. However imho too much of it is just a fad.
My grandaughter has celiac disease so has to avoid gluten. Fortunately gluten free foods are now readily available but she has to be very careful when eating out, cross contamination can occur but I think her mother is a little too paranoid which doesn't help.
I seldom add salt to my food but not because of health concerns. I don't like it. I'm not suffering from a deficiency so must be getting enough in my diet. I eat what I like but in moderation and am not picky, doc says I am good for another 100,000 but didn't specify miles or kilometers. ;D
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Hilltop366

My BIL has had headaches for years, he has gone from doctor to specialist to bone cracker to ........after a while he ended up seeing a person who got him to write down everything he eats and when he has a headache, when he returned with the list she said "oh this is easy, do you see what is common about these foods?" it wasn't that obvious to him until she wrote down the ingredient that was common to them all with all the different names it can be found under. I took a picture of the list.

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