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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gennepher" data-source="post: 2171885" data-attributes="member: 238814">Blooming cold here.Just put electric blanket on so I can get back to sleep...maybe...Readings are 6.7This will have to be my fbg, if you can call it that 'cos I have been awakeish...I've read back quite a few hours on what you all were discussing yesterday (Thursday). I'll have to read again in daylight hours, but I think I got the gist of it.Many years ago (pre internet that is) I used to do 'research' in Dillon's bookshops, then Waterstone's, and also Blackwell's the University bookshop, in order to find out stuff we have at our fingertips on the internet now. Public Libraries were only any good for antiquated books (and they had brilliant old books but not up to date info).I even took in a notebook and pen and took notes. Okay I was cheeky, but I always bought something (just not the book I wanted information from because it was too expensive) each time I went. And I would buy quite a lot books, I just never left without buying something as 'payment' for my research. No one ever stopped me researching. And it was good when they provided chairs and coffee!Anyway, that was a long preamble to what I am leading up to <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />After all this time I have no idea of the source of this info, but I made notes from this book that men and women's metabolisms/body make up was different, so it was saying that men could have more starch type foods as bread etc than women. It suggested men could have these foods every day, but not women. It said that women should only have bread every other day. It did explain better than I am doing so here.I remember trying that because I was having problems with foods then (I can't recall exact details now and I had been to my doctor but with no joy, 1980's I think, doctor gave me a leaflet on food then and that leaflet said to eat beefburgers in white buns...so much bread it advised to eat then on a daily basis, and that it was healthy to eat at McDonald's/Wimpy), but I felt a lot better for only actually eating bread on alternate days.What I do recall, in detail from that day some decades ago, is buying a book of postcards from the bookshop. The postcards were of unicorns...and I still have it...and I know exactly where it is <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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