What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

6.7 on this forecast of no rain Monday, when mid morning it did for about fifteen minutes!
The sun has been out, but it is cool and damp! More downpours expected mid week!
it is half term and no7 & 8 were in fine fettle playing ball in the garden. I'm a bit weary after that exercise but it is worth it!

Poverty, is something, no one should be experiencing in this day and age. I would rank it as a criminal offence to allow it. There is no need for it! Anywhere, never mind in this country.
absolute poverty as a youngster, that you have to have food, and there isn't any, is against human rights!
And living without certain food groups bar carbs, can be so damaging. Denying fruit or good vegetables which are so important for their vitamins.

One of my favourite American t.v. series, The Good Place. Is about four people who when they die are put together in a 'good place ' and are allowed to live their existence in perpetual heaven. They are being rewarded for their good work they did when alive. However, they gradually find out, that, it wasn't them, that did the good work. And become aware, that they don't deserve to be in the good place.
So, it becomes a place that they need to stay because the bad place is really horrific!
And doing so, the four begin to question their morals. But by trying to do what is good, usually ends up by being torture for them all.
I won't give the rest of the story. But I'm using this as an example of what is happening to me with Mrs L.
I'm trying so hard to be a good person by caring and looking after her. But it is so hard and it can be so like torture, to my sanity!
Today, the clasp on her necklace broke and the pendant was a treasured gift off her mother. So I had to do something. Along with the arthritis and my shaking, perseverance and calmness (not), it took me well over an hour to find a way to get it back around her neck, not once did I wish it was something else. And besides everything else, there was chores, shopping and exercise to be done, her brews and my usual bits and bobs in the kitchen and garden to do!I
Am I in that 'bad place'?

Have put a curry in the oven that I prepared yesterday and left to seep into the chicken. Hope it goes down well!

The grass is too wet to cut, but needs it. Some of my autumn plants have decided enough, but others mainly because of the humidity have decided to keep flowering. Great colours of orange, white, pinks and dark crimson. Bushes need a tidy up before the season of goodwill lights decorations are put out! Thinking ahead as always! Apologies to the humbug brigade!

Roofers no response again!

My best wishes to you all as always.

gennepher said:

Alas no...it is my cat Midnight...
I don't know how to do caricature @Lamont D

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I think you might find it is.
Cos, a caricature is a drawn representation of someone or something that has a likeness.
Such as a cartoon depiction of someone.

Part of my drawing CSE, in grammar school!

ianpspurs said:

Morning all on the start of a busy few days what with half term child care duties - including 2 earlyish trips into Cambs to fetch them - medical procedures plus something or other not to forget on Friday. I need to hold my peace over making Halloween cookies etc - I don't approve. @gennepher thanks for sharing the creative - to me it seems more upbeat so I hope it reflects your mood lightening. @Krystyna23040 enjoy relaxing after the vet trip. The Crown and Castle looks very picturesque and Jake's food looks wonderful. Y'all have a good day now.

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Thank you @ianpspurs. We have had a lovely walk around Orford, visited the Jolly Sailors pub and are now relaxing in our room before dinner later.

dunelm said:

Might be of interest. Major study claims to have found the root cause of obesity: Fructose

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That is a very interesting article @dunelm

ianpspurs said:

As you rightly say there should be no stigma attached to any mental health issues. Perhaps the death and backstory of Sir Bobby Charlton will help people see that anyone can fall prey to this. Sadly Thatcher and Reagan's issues and demise didn't alter attitudes in certain quarters, just pretended they didn't happen for those reasons. I detect much more sympathy and understanding among the younger Gens, helped by sports people and media personalities speaking out. Boomers - as a cohort in general - once again have so much for which to answer and apologise. What doesn't help is the prevalent narrative that with the "correct" diet and lifestyle one can live forever at the peak of one's powers. Well documented convergence between healthy/ wellness/ lifestyle prozlitysers and the far right. Too conspiracy theory to see that as "The Man" offloading responsibility and, conveniently, tax payment- cf @dunelm's link? Now, where's my JCB and tin foil hat?

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an interesting and a bit scary article @ianpspurs

Krystyna23040 said:

That is a very interesting article @dunelm

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I remember, in my early years, there was still shortages and rationing was in force, and one of the major issues was from scurvy! Because of the lack of citrus fruits.
I worry when this sort of animal testing, comes up with this sort of research.
A lot of these animals, have little or none reasons to eat fructose in levels to cause the issues they are proposing.

Lamont D said:

I remember, in my early years, there was still shortages and rationing was in force, and one of the major issues was from scurvy! Because of the lack of citrus fruits.
I worry when this sort of animal testing, comes up with this sort of research.
A lot of these animals, have little or none reasons to eat fructose in levels to cause the issues they are proposing.

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It's the invention of high fructose corn syrup that causes a lot of obesity.
Man in times past only had a lot of normal fructose in autumn.

The guy recently kayaking in Greenland existed quite well on fermented seal blubber and finished up much healthier than when he started. Re Tim Spector for facts.
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gennepher said:

Hope you all had a good lunch @dunelm
Great sketch, it seems a flat region....

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Thank you @gennepher and yes, pretty flat. The river is tidal and if there is a lot of rain, there is flooding even thought there is a big flood plain just up river from the town.

Surely won't Bobby Charltons problem be from heading heavy footballs?

lindisfel said:

Surely won't Bobby Charltons problem be from heading heavy footballs?

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Definitely in the mix although probably more so for Jack Charlton I would say. I think the point is he was a high profile name so people may take notice. We, UK, can't allow attached to continue.

I get all these old Reiver families mixed up...the Charlton's and the Robson's were all Border Reivers. look North were interviewing the wife of another notable footballer today who had a long fight against footy induced dementia.
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lindisfel said:

Surely won't Bobby Charltons problem be from heading heavy footballs?

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It wasn't until they did an autopsy on Geoff Astle's brain, did they have a major investigation into heading the ball.
I always remember that Dixie Dean, had bad memory issues into his middle fifties. But can also remember from later years, the number of football players who died young than there fitness levels through their playing careers should have had.
It was only pre covid when the FA brought in the advise to restrict heading to matches only in the men's and women's game and totally ban heading in the primary school age groups!
In honesty, in kids football, coaching correct heading was very rare.
I think I'm on my own in this respect, cos a good trainer in my youth, the one who told me to stay away from beer, bread and spuds, also told me to use my forehead and attack the ball with timing and force.
And I have only cracked up once!
No mental issues, that I'm aware of!

The leather balls with laces in were lethal. Even in bright sunshine! But definitely not in wet weather. So heavy like concrete. Footie boots with toecaps and wooden studs nailed in. And shin pads, so thick, made with wooden slats in leather. And they still produced a lot of quality football!

Vitamin D3 is apparently protective against alsorts of problems including COVID and dementia. The skin doesn't fix much with using factor 50 and not feel the sun on our skin. But that's what I did 40 + years ago and the reason I had a melanoma off in March so I can't expose myself to the sun now.

Regarding vitamin C, I have not checked this recently but if I remember correctly most mammals can fix vitamin C. It was lost somewhere in the primate line in the great apes and man. We cannot fix vitamin C nor can Chimps, Gorillas, Bonobos and Orangutans.
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Counter weight class this afternoon. I felt as though I had put weight on but I hadn't. Lost about 2 kg since the last weigh-in, 2 weeks ago. That's me back to where I was 4 weeks ago, having put 2 kg on the previous fortnight, despite only slipping a bit from seriously low carb to moderately low carb. Been very low carb the last week and it has brought my weight back down and even BG is improved the last day or so.

I hope John Green is well clear of any flooding. The Trent will be taking a lot of water now after the amount of water they have had in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

The Trent comes up a long way and floods villages on Lincoln side of the Trent as it flows North into the Humber.
It's an area that has interesting geomorphology but I think I have different stuff that rocks my boat than most..

Good morning everyone from a very dark start, one hour into the future, here in French Froggy France. Shopping yesterday - oh how we roll! Then, up to the post office where a very pleasant member of staff who enjoyed speaking English sorted my parcel. Lunch - just 2 courses - no desert. Mum discovered that she had left her bag at the restaurant - back I went. FitBit well surprised at over 11000 steps. Off to Bordeaux this afternoon and will have a catch up with my niece. Art bit, there were swans on the river under the branches of the Willows. Hope your day, whatever you choose to call it, is a kind one. I must now hunt down more koffy.

dunelm said:

Mum discovered that she had left her bag at the restaurant - back I went.

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Not all heroes wear capes, hey ..

Bit of a win of a day.

Kudos on the painting too...nice

lindisfel said:

It's the invention of high fructose corn syrup that causes a lot of obesity.
Man in times past only had a lot of normal fructose in autumn.

The guy recently kayaking in Greenland existed quite well on fermented seal blubber and finished up much healthier than when he started. Re Tim Spector for facts.
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Yes, the high fructose corn syrup is such an unnatural form of fructose not found in nature. Such a shame it was ever invented.

6.3 this morning. Am so pleased with this after the lovely, and really late for me, meal last night and rather too much coffee and cream.

Krystyna23040 said:

That is a very interesting article @dunelm

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Its a major cause of fatty liver disease...high GGT.

Fatty liver disease and high GGT are manifestations of the same disease! Not causes. High fructose corn syrup is a cause. It can be cured of its not gone too far and it's not due to fat as it says in the article. It due to poor diet just the same as stuffing geese with grain to make a French delicacy.

One cannot manage without a bile duct but one can without a gall bladder. Passing large gall stone can perhap damage the bile duct. Marjorie had gall bladder problems in her early thirties and a life threatening gall bladder infection. The surgeons were on strike even then so we had to get the operation done privately.
Be thankful if you had key hole surgery, she was in hospital eight days and the incision just about cut her in half. She was ill and it moved a very young Abigail to say, It's not my mummy! When we came from the hospital after a visit.