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OLD & FIT: recently I just love it. I avoided reading the label doctor. Even the BCC on my neck I’m treating
just in case.) I think it’s true though: we should
myself with the cryo.
avoid eating from packets and jars. Eat real
food, as fresh as possible, nothing processed.
Doesn’t living in Africa make eating real food so Which brings me on to: Don’t self medicate.
When I was working everyone was on vitamins or
Thoughts on Retirement much easier! We try and eat it fresh as it comes, supplements. The fashion went from vitamin C to
even better grow it yourself. Meat from the
D to zinc. What for? I believe God created
Article by Dr Dick Stockley butcher, fish from the fishmonger, fruit and veg everything we need for long healthy lives and
recognisable as what it looked like when it was put it in our food. It seems some people think He
growing. I’m sure those of us who avoid forgot to put in enough vitamins in a banana so
processed food and eat fresh have a much he created pharmaceutical companies to put
in some countries or over 35 in others. So that
means fewer people are obese, problem lower risk of cancer. I gave up salt too, when I right his mistake. It really is true that supplements
solved! And to add to confusion, heavily was a medical student. I have never added salt, just give you expensive urine. Remember the
muscled people can be world class athletes even when running on the equator, and my vitamin D hysteria that was exposed years ago. It
with BMI in the 30’s. So let’s just use the F word blood pressure is still under 120. Elephants was all a bit of a puzzle at first: no one could
apparently go looking for extra salt, cattle use
Dr Dick Stockley instead and say being fat is the biggest factor in salt licks, but humans do not need it. Studies that make money from D supplements. Then it
poor health and early deaths worldwide. Being show reducing salt doesn’t drop blood pressure is became clear: they made it from testing. Scare
There are 3 major life changes thought to be the fat increases risk of diabetes, cardiovascular because they are reducing from 4 x more than people into getting tested and selling tests for
vitamin D assay became a nice little earner. The
most stressful and make us ill. Change of job, disease, cancer, even severe infections. Almost you need to twice. I see mounting acceptance tests didn’t even measure vitamin D, only a
change of home, change of spouse. So being everyone in icu with covid was fat, 75% of that adding salt to food is a bad practice, we marker. I had patients coming in who were told
sacked, retired or promoted are major stresses, deaths were over bmi 26. don’t need any more salt then we get in normal they had low D levels from their home countries,
moving into your dream house or losing your house food. Why not try giving it up? Food will when they are out in the sun playing golf in short
are both major stresses, getting married divorced Get thin. Eat a lot less, exercise a lot more. Yes it eventually taste better as you get used to it, your sleeves on the equator twice a week. The
or widowed are apparently equally stressful. can be hard. I prefer chocolate to cucumber blood pressure will come down, and one side
too but Rosie gives me both, so on average I effect you’ll not read in any text book is you will publications promoting supplements stood truth
I’ve retired, moved out of our dream house, eat well. I used to run 10 km to work and back recognise an Islay single malt from a highland or on its head. The truth is some illnesses cause low
D, but it doesn’t follow that low D caused the
moved to Botswana. But Rosie hasn’t told me she twice a week and cycle 2 days as well, so I was Spey side from the salty taste. disease. I just refused to test, the scam was so
wants a divorce and doesn’t look as if she’s about running 40km every week rain or shine and blatant. Remember omega 3? Get a fish, smash
to ring down the final curtain and join the choir cycling 40 km too, though preferred the shine. Keep your mind alert - My memory is shot. I was it into a pulp, squeeze out the oil, isolate the
incarnate: so for stress we’ve done 2 out of 3. But then running on the streets was forbidden as forgetting names long before I retired, now I
“attempted murder,” so I stopped the habit of have to stop and concentrate to remember all omega 3, put it in a capsule sell it in a
So how do we intend to postpone pushing up 20 years and just cycled instead. I’ve never sorts of words that I just can’t find. So if you are pharmacy. Why not just eat the fish? It will move
daisies, delay our inevitable demise and remain fit really got back into it. Kampala was a beautiful sitting, then do crosswords, sudoku, read books, on. Like a number 63 bus, another health
in mind body and wit? Since I retired 2 years ago climate for jogging, usually cool enough, lots of anything to keep your mind active. Of course, fashion is always coming.
I’ve seen a doctor twice. Once for a medical for shade, nice hills. Here it is flat flat flat, no hill for losing your memory keeps you fit. If I go out I go So those who live to extreme old age, what do
Bomaid, a rather cursory assessment, and about 500 km, and it’s either dry and very hot or upstairs to get my phone, see something I need they say? I never read that any of them credit
secondly for a medical for an over 70 driving chucking it down in a deluge this time of year, and go back down. Then I realise I didn’t get my their supplements. Madame Calvert who lived to
licence. Even cursoryer. I’m taking no medication so I haven’t had a morning jog for a month. phone so go up again. Then I remember I need be 122 said it was because she took a glass of
for anything, I haven’t needed so much as a However from now on its getting cold again, it the car keys and have left them upstairs too. So I
brufen. I bought a bottle of cryotherapy spray for a can even freeze overnight in July, so the go up and down 3 times instead of once. Those red wine every night. Others credit keeping on
suspicious mole and a basal cell carcinoma on intention to start jogging again is there. You don’t who live in 2 story houses live longer, even working. At best supplements are just plain silly,
at worse they might even cause poor health.
my neck. But our Jack Russel has some little warty have to jog. Some play tennis, some ride bikes, though falling downstairs is a common cause of Excess vitamins and minerals have to be pee’d
skin lesions too, so the cryotherapy is a good sail, go to the gym or swim. It’s not so much how death. All that climbing is a great way of out and our kidneys must give a groan every
investment. much artificial exercise we do that keeps us fit,
it’s the opposite: how much time do you spend staying fit. So in case I forget, you’re all invited time they see us taking them. Take a look at
sitting. I do a lot of gardening. I’ve never ached to my 80th in 2033. those celebrating their centenary. They are thin,
So how do we stay fit and healthy as we get older? they are active, they mostly live in the country
so much in years but turning kalahari acacia
A friend of mine Chris White about 10 years ago bush into “a well watered garden in a desert Don’t ignore symptoms or delay seeing a and eat fresh food, often that they grow
themselves. They are usually part of a tight knit
told me he had worked out how to make a small land” is an excellent fat burner. There is a lot of doctor. If you think something’s wrong go and community that look after each other, with
fortune in Uganda. Start with a large one. So rule dangerous nonsense out there, but I notice the see a doctor on time. Waiting and hoping it friends and family all around. I heard of one
number 1. Start fit and healthy. Get thin and fit in careful use of clever language to provide will go away is a great way of getting a island full of centenarians where there are no
your 40’s and 50’s. Then it’s a lot easier to stay thin plausible deniability. I rather scorn all diets but I delayed diagnosis of something that might roads: so they walk a mile or 2 to the local
and fit when you retire. We have always known believe the evidence that most processed food have been curable. All around me I see hostelry for their tipple every night. I intend to
obesity is bad for your health. Most diabetics, is bad for our health is true. people with cancer or heart disease and I enjoy being retired for 30 years: see if I can beat
strokes, heart failure and hypertension are obese. wonder was it because of delay. Doctors Prince Philip by a year. If you disagree with how
The proportion of obese keeps going up, so Trans fats, preservatives, smoked or cured themselves are the worst and I know I’ll
developed countries quickly improved that statistic meats, the evidence is pretty clear. And they are struggle to admit it when I need to see a I’m doing it, ask me in 20 years. Or if I’m wrong
by redefining obese! So now obese is BMI over 30 expensive. (Rosie found some roll mop herring ask my heirs.
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