Heart Healthy Eating

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When we were younger, the wife and I did run our own farm. Like you we raised all of our food and did much canning. We had animals and garden stuff. As time slipped by, we gradually ceased this kind of life style. Kids grew, they needed work around their houses, wife got sick and we lost our previous production values. I agree with you fully about what to do to guarantee one's food source. Today we still run a garden and eat in season. The next best thing is to buy at farmers co-op. When I used to eat meat regularly it was always from a local friend who raised one or two head at a time. He's since pasted away so now I'm living a sort of compromise. It is helping to have cut out meat form our diets but as we live in an area of winter, its tough if not impossible to get local produce. Good for you Ron for doing this yourself.

 

[pacerron]

When we were younger, the wife and I did run our own farm. Like you we raised all of our food and did much canning. We had animals and garden stuff. As time slipped by, we gradually ceased this kind of life style. Kids grew, they needed work around their houses, wife got sick and we lost our previous production values. I agree with you fully about what to do to guarantee one's food source. Today we still run a garden and eat in season. The next best thing is to buy at farmers co-op. When I used to eat meat regularly it was always from a local friend who raised one or two head at a time. He's since pasted away so now I'm living a sort of compromise. It is helping to have cut out meat form our diets but as we live in an area of winter, its tough if not impossible to get local produce. Good for you Ron for doing this yourself.

Arrow,
I think as we get older it crosses our minds as to " how many harvests do we have left?" I have learned a lot from this thread and didn't realize how grateful
I should be to have a body that can process cholesterol naturally, like Don's brother.
From my snooping I find that doesn't give me, or anyone else, any better chance, statistically, to not have a heart attack, than someone with bad cholesterol numbers.
Many of the things you have talked about and questioned about potential causes of heart attack are found here Does Cholesterol Really Matter?
In this case, the recommendation of "niacin" might be dangerous if it interacted with other drugs people take. We just have to put trust in our doctors for our own unique situations. If not, why bother going in the first place..
Ron

 

[beppington]

After listening to that NPR radio segment on sugar I mentioned earlier, I read that the RDA of sugar for males is 37.5 grams (9 teaspoons) & have started reading the amount of sugar in everything I consume. I can't believe how much sugar there is in so many things I normally eat! How have I lived this long?!?

1 bottle of Gatorade, my default drink while working outside in the FL heat, has almost an entire day's worth of sugar. Now, maybe that's a good thing?, replacing what I've lost while sweating? Still reading up ...

 

[Egon]

After listening to that NPR radio segment on sugar I mentioned earlier, I read that the RDA of sugar for males is 37.5 grams (9 teaspoons) & have started reading the amount of sugar in everything I consume. I can't believe how much sugar there is in so many things I normally eat! How have I lived this long?!?

1 bottle of Gatorade, my default drink while working outside in the FL heat, has almost an entire day's worth of sugar. Now, maybe that's a good thing?, replacing what I've lost while sweating? Still reading up ...

Drink water with some lemon juice in it.:thumbsup:

Seems I recall reading some years ago that the power drinks were only required after about seven days of professional athlete preformance???

 

[brin]

Drink water with some lemon juice in it.:thumbsup:

Seems I recall reading some years ago that the power drinks were only required after about seven days of professional athlete preformance???

Only drink water with Lemon at home....Here I go again on food safety....I saw a piece on TV not long ago about ordering Ice water with Lemon at restaurants and an investigative reporter disclosed how unsanitary the lemons are handled in the back ,...where you do not see...they are usually not washed, laying around on dirty counters and then placed in your glass of water by hands that have just bused tables with dirty dishes....so be careful...

 

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Older but significant information...
Resolving the Coronary Artery Disease Epidemic through Plant-Based Nutrition

 

[dmccarty]

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Many of the things you have talked about and questioned about potential causes of heart attack are found here Does Cholesterol Really Matter?
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Be careful with this link. My security software said the site was dangerous.

Later,
Dan

 

[txdon]

Older but significant information...
Resolving the Coronary Artery Disease Epidemic through Plant-Based Nutrition

Very significant! That is exactly what this thread is all about. You notice the Cleveland Clinic on the web page. I called and spoke to the people in the cardiac rehab a couple of months ago about Dr. Esselstyn's plant based diet. They said it does work and is the best food for recovery, the only problem is that most people cannot change their diet.

 

[dmccarty]

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1 bottle of Gatorade, my default drink while working outside in the FL heat, has almost an entire day's worth of sugar. Now, maybe that's a good thing?, replacing what I've lost while sweating? Still reading up ...

Sports Drinks make me sick because of the sugar. Literally. The only time I can drink them is when I am exercising very heavily. By heavily I mean paddling a kayak at 5+ mph on a 20 mile trip in 4-5 hours. THEN I can drink a sports drink without getting sick.

There was doctor TBNer who was active years ago. Back in the day he published a recipe for a home made sports drink. It was water, sugar, maybe baking soda and potassium. I have used it for years without the sugar.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/1384-heat-stroke-isnt-cool-2.html look at post 19 for the recipe by RCH. He makes a few more comments on the thread that are interesting as well.

Later,
Dan

 

[txdon]

Does Cholesterol Really Matter?[/url]

Ron

Ron here is a study on the cholesterol levels of people who come to the hospital with heart attacks.
Mostheart attack patients' cholesterol levels did not indicate cardiac risk / UCLA Newsroom
They are thinking the normal levels might need to be lowered.

Through diet I had got my cholesterol levels to inside the norm, well, higher end norm. I was not on statins. This was a non-fasting emergency room blood draw during my heart attack, right before they opened my right coronary artery put in my stent. As you can see they were not that bad. I had started eating vegan for several months before and lots of nuts, avocados etc. My weight then was 185. I had been taking Niacin for several years.

Day of Heart Attack Numbers
Total cholesterol 189
Triglycerides 86
HDL 48
LDL 123

I guess it was the years before when the plaque formed. The force of the blood running up that hill just broke it loose and a blood clot formed a.k.a. heart attack.