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penleguin
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 Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:50 am Post subject: Life is good |
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Just been to the Doctor's this morning to register with my local practice. Was dreading the appointment and haven't been sleeping well - also no drink, salty or sweet foods for a few days in preparation. Have been putting of registering because:
1. I'm scared of doctors
2. All men in this area get invited in to their GP for a health check on their 40th birthday. Judging by friends experience this usually involves being told you've got high blood pressure, high chlorestrol, are risking early onset diabetes and therefor you must not smoke, drink, eat anything that tastes good or have fun.
It went better than I expected though - a lecture on my alcohol intake (just as well I underestimated it on their form) and apparently my blood pressure's spot on!
Have just celebrated by demolishing a giant haggis supper (food of the Gods). Beer and football tonight - good to be back to normal!
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geordie_racer
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in my experience they know to multiply the stated alcohol intake by approximately 2.5
wait until youre nearer 50 and they offer you prostate inspection..... 
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jennywales
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I don't know whether anyone saw the recent (?BBC) programme on twins - but here is a salutary thought about nature vs nurture.
One twin lived in New Zealand - he had an impeccable lifestyle, he did not drink or smoke, ate healthy food and got lots of exercise (kayaking, gym, running).
The other twin lived in UK - he smoked, drank regularly (quite a bit) ate loads of unhealthy foods and took no exercise.
The UK twin started to have heart problems, so he was admitted and after assessment was operated on for (I think) blocked arteries.
On the off chance that his twin might also have the condition, despite the huge variation in lifestyle, he was urged to get a check-up. He did so, and found not only that he had exactly the same condition, but it was in exactly the same arteries. He too had an operation (in both cases successful).
I know that this might be a very unusual case, and that in general lifestyle has a lot to do with what diseases we get/avoid. But sometimes I think that keeping fit, eating healthy foods, not drinking and so on just takes so much of the FUN out of life......
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suejoe
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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| jennywales wrote: | | But sometimes I think that keeping fit, eating healthy foods, not drinking and so on just takes so much of the FUN out of life...... |
No it doesn't 
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geordie_racer
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| suejoe wrote: | | jennywales wrote: | | But sometimes I think that keeping fit, eating healthy foods, not drinking and so on just takes so much of the FUN out of life...... |
No it doesn't
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my doctor told me that cutting down on drinking and eating, exercising more and living a healthy lifestyle would not make me live any longer but it would feel as though it did
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golfswing
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| jennywales wrote: | I don't know whether anyone saw the recent (?BBC) programme on twins - but here is a salutary thought about nature vs nurture.
One twin lived in New Zealand - he had an impeccable lifestyle, he did not drink or smoke, ate healthy food and got lots of exercise (kayaking, gym, running).
The other twin lived in UK - he smoked, drank regularly (quite a bit) ate loads of unhealthy foods and took no exercise.
The UK twin started to have heart problems, so he was admitted and after assessment was operated on for (I think) blocked arteries.
On the off chance that his twin might also have the condition, despite the huge variation in lifestyle, he was urged to get a check-up. He did so, and found not only that he had exactly the same condition, but it was in exactly the same arteries. He too had an operation (in both cases successful).
I know that this might be a very unusual case, and that in general lifestyle has a lot to do with what diseases we get/avoid. But sometimes I think that keeping fit, eating healthy foods, not drinking and so on just takes so much of the FUN out of life...... |
Agree with you there auntie Jen..
If you did everything the so called healthy prophets told us to do life would just be boring..
We are only this earth for a very short time in the big scheme of things.
Enjoy it whilst it lasts is my motto..
Half the people I see running when I am out and about look a right miserable lot.. and if they have to stop at junctions etc they go into a blind panic stopping their watches whilst running on the spot...
Before the fitness freaks have a go at me, I am not against exercise of any sort but I am not obsessed by it and it doesnt rule my life..
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Cath_EVN
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Sue[/quote]
my doctor told me that cutting down on drinking and eating, exercising more and living a healthy lifestyle would not make me live any longer but it would feel as though it did[/quote]
Agree 100%! I can resist anything except temptation. I saw the Twin programme and it did make you that some things in life are pre-ordained. ( and i don't mean in a religious sense) |
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Papa 3
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Some people are Usain Bolts some are Andy Capps, some win the lottery some lose the winning ticket, some get dealt a royal flush some get a 7 high, some live to be 100 some die young. All in all we have to make do with what we have for as has been said life is just a blink of an eye in a trillion years. Money wise I had 20 years of dole money and coped, on my wages now, not huge, I cope better, with that experience behind me. If healthy living and fitness come easy to you then great, some of us for numerous reasons can't manage it, it is all the kaleidoscope of life, lets get on with it, but keep the moans and observations.
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| Papa 3 wrote: | | Some people are Usain Bolts some are Andy Capps, some win the lottery some lose the winning ticket, some get dealt a royal flush some get a 7 high, some live to be 100 some die young. All in all we have to make do with what we have for as has been said life is just a blink of an eye in a trillion years. Money wise I had 20 years of dole money and coped, on my wages now, not huge, I cope better, with that experience behind me. If healthy living and fitness come easy to you then great, some of us for numerous reasons can't manage it, it is all the kaleidoscope of life, lets get on with it, but keep the moans and observations. |
personally i disagree with just about every element of this post. i accept that some people are born with physical advantages or disadvantages, and others are born into a lifetime of wealth and privelege. BUT, for the vast majority of people, you get out what you put in. accepting the hand you've been dealt is fine - so long as you never moan about that hand or wish for anything better.
in your example (and i hope this isn't getting too personal), you say you were on the dole for 20 years. unless i was physically or mentally disabled in some way, i would not allow this to happen to me under any circumstances. no way. if industry would not employ me i would get work as a laborer, learn my trade, save up, go it alone, sub contract in laborers, build up a company etc. if i wasn't physically up to that i would be a cabbie, save up, rent an office, start my own cab office, etc... i am very ambitious and motivated and refuse to be held back at work. other people think it makes me a bit of a , i'm sure, but i won't feel like much of a , in 20 years when my time is spent with my kids and doing things i want to do instead of going to the office every day (which is obviously great if you enjoy doing that - i don't).
if people want to sit around and accept what they're given then fine. they'll get given not a lot and either like it or moan aimlessly about it. but if people want to go out and get what they want they should do everything they can to achieve it - be it sporting success, financial stability, finding love, whatever. there are way too many people in the world who are all moan and no action and in my opinion most people don't get the things they want because they're not prepared to go and get them. |
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accajacca
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rant aside congratulations penleguin on your clean bill of health - sounds like a permission slip to go out and have a few too many and a curry at the first opportunity  |
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| accajacca wrote: | | Papa 3 wrote: | | Some people are Usain Bolts some are Andy Capps, some win the lottery some lose the winning ticket, some get dealt a royal flush some get a 7 high, some live to be 100 some die young. All in all we have to make do with what we have for as has been said life is just a blink of an eye in a trillion years. Money wise I had 20 years of dole money and coped, on my wages now, not huge, I cope better, with that experience behind me. If healthy living and fitness come easy to you then great, some of us for numerous reasons can't manage it, it is all the kaleidoscope of life, lets get on with it, but keep the moans and observations. |
personally i disagree with just about every element of this post. i accept that some people are born with physical advantages or disadvantages, and others are born into a lifetime of wealth and privelege. BUT, for the vast majority of people, you get out what you put in. accepting the hand you've been dealt is fine - so long as you never moan about that hand or wish for anything better.
in your example (and i hope this isn't getting too personal), you say you were on the dole for 20 years. unless i was physically or mentally disabled in some way, i would not allow this to happen to me under any circumstances. no way. if industry would not employ me i would get work as a laborer, learn my trade, save up, go it alone, sub contract in laborers, build up a company etc. if i wasn't physically up to that i would be a cabbie, save up, rent an office, start my own cab office, etc... i am very ambitious and motivated and refuse to be held back at work. other people think it makes me a bit of a , i'm sure, but i won't feel like much of a , in 20 years when my time is spent with my kids and doing things i want to do instead of going to the office every day (which is obviously great if you enjoy doing that - i don't).
if people want to sit around and accept what they're given then fine. they'll get given not a lot and either like it or moan aimlessly about it. but if people want to go out and get what they want they should do everything they can to achieve it - be it sporting success, financial stability, finding love, whatever. there are way too many people in the world who are all moan and no action and in my opinion most people don't get the things they want because they're not prepared to go and get them. |
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glennie1970
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| accajacca wrote: | | Papa 3 wrote: | | Some people are Usain Bolts some are Andy Capps, some win the lottery some lose the winning ticket, some get dealt a royal flush some get a 7 high, some live to be 100 some die young. All in all we have to make do with what we have for as has been said life is just a blink of an eye in a trillion years. Money wise I had 20 years of dole money and coped, on my wages now, not huge, I cope better, with that experience behind me. If healthy living and fitness come easy to you then great, some of us for numerous reasons can't manage it, it is all the kaleidoscope of life, lets get on with it, but keep the moans and observations. |
personally i disagree with just about every element of this post. i accept that some people are born with physical advantages or disadvantages, and others are born into a lifetime of wealth and privelege. BUT, for the vast majority of people, you get out what you put in. accepting the hand you've been dealt is fine - so long as you never moan about that hand or wish for anything better.
in your example (and i hope this isn't getting too personal), you say you were on the dole for 20 years. unless i was physically or mentally disabled in some way, i would not allow this to happen to me under any circumstances. no way. if industry would not employ me i would get work as a laborer, learn my trade, save up, go it alone, sub contract in laborers, build up a company etc. if i wasn't physically up to that i would be a cabbie, save up, rent an office, start my own cab office, etc... i am very ambitious and motivated and refuse to be held back at work. other people think it makes me a bit of a , i'm sure, but i won't feel like much of a , in 20 years when my time is spent with my kids and doing things i want to do instead of going to the office every day (which is obviously great if you enjoy doing that - i don't).
if people want to sit around and accept what they're given then fine. they'll get given not a lot and either like it or moan aimlessly about it. but if people want to go out and get what they want they should do everything they can to achieve it - be it sporting success, financial stability, finding love, whatever. there are way too many people in the world who are all moan and no action and in my opinion most people don't get the things they want because they're not prepared to go and get them. |
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| accajacca wrote: | | Papa 3 wrote: | | Some people are Usain Bolts some are Andy Capps, some win the lottery some lose the winning ticket, some get dealt a royal flush some get a 7 high, some live to be 100 some die young. All in all we have to make do with what we have for as has been said life is just a blink of an eye in a trillion years. Money wise I had 20 years of dole money and coped, on my wages now, not huge, I cope better, with that experience behind me. If healthy living and fitness come easy to you then great, some of us for numerous reasons can't manage it, it is all the kaleidoscope of life, lets get on with it, but keep the moans and observations. |
personally i disagree with just about every element of this post. i accept that some people are born with physical advantages or disadvantages, and others are born into a lifetime of wealth and privelege. BUT, for the vast majority of people, you get out what you put in. accepting the hand you've been dealt is fine - so long as you never moan about that hand or wish for anything better.
in your example (and i hope this isn't getting too personal), you say you were on the dole for 20 years. unless i was physically or mentally disabled in some way, i would not allow this to happen to me under any circumstances. no way. if industry would not employ me i would get work as a laborer, learn my trade, save up, go it alone, sub contract in laborers, build up a company etc. if i wasn't physically up to that i would be a cabbie, save up, rent an office, start my own cab office, etc... i am very ambitious and motivated and refuse to be held back at work. other people think it makes me a bit of a , i'm sure, but i won't feel like much of a , in 20 years when my time is spent with my kids and doing things i want to do instead of going to the office every day (which is obviously great if you enjoy doing that - i don't).
if people want to sit around and accept what they're given then fine. they'll get given not a lot and either like it or moan aimlessly about it. but if people want to go out and get what they want they should do everything they can to achieve it - be it sporting success, financial stability, finding love, whatever. there are way too many people in the world who are all moan and no action and in my opinion most people don't get the things they want because they're not prepared to go and get them. |
I won't go into the circumstances of my employment, the reasons are already on this forum put there some time ago. The last reference in my post re moans and observations, is a not so private joke, again already explained on this forum, but in a light hearted context. My post contained no regrets, I got on with my lot and raised my family, who have all done well. During my "acceptance" of being out of work I took many courses to redirect my life and to find a different job. I passed all the courses that I went on, put them on my CV, sent them off, but a sad fact is that unless you have had years of experience with the new skill acquired, then you don't get an interview. It is only through MTV that I now have a job, for which I am grateful, only wish he could have got it me sooner, again not a moan but a private joke. My post as I said was, in my opinion, just a point being made to basically say that everyone doesn't get the same breaks as everyone else, but so what, you make the best that you can out of life, and let those that don't experience your scenario think what they like and put it all down to laziness or lack of motivation, some of your statements riled me, but you and others can say what they want, I am now happy, and content to think that I made the best of "the hand I was dealt" There will be no more "moans" from me on this subject.
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