Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => Other Health Discussion => Topic started by: Taz2 on August 15, 2013, 08:07:40 AM
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I found this article interesting http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/421663/How-the-right-diet-exercise-and-losing-weight-can-help-prevent-cancer
Taz x
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Pretty obvious really. My Paternal grand-parents ate well - a lot of stodgy foodstuffs but they also had a LOT of exercise - from the age of 4 Grandma walked 4 miles to school in the morning, had a sandwich of pork dripping and a bottle of cold tea for lunch - then back 4 miles at night. They used a lot of suet in cooking. Keeps the body warm.
She died aged 86 from what I believed to be a stroke but on the Death Cert. is was something more complicated but rarer
Grandad died from lung cancer ......... aged 71
My Maternal Grand-parents ate less well but still grew their own, raised chickens/rabbits etc. for the table. She died aged 86 from bile duct cancer and he from pneumolcylicosis probably - he was a baker. Aged 55.
I think what we eat and GOOD exercise is important. Refined sugars and fats cause the body to layer fat which can affect the internal organs. Out of sight, out of mind ;)
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Yes I think exercise counts for such a lot in staying healthy. I found the alcohol information interesting considering that the guidelines are no more than 14 units a week and a 175ml glass of wine is 2 units but 1.5 units a day puts up the risk of cancer by.. can't remember how much now.. but it does make you think.
Taz x
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We are what we eat, I suppose. I've lost weight, just because I was fed up looking overweight. I'm still needing to lose a wee bit more, about 5 KGS, but I'm not going to beat myself up about it.
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we don't put on weight over night so it won't come off over night ......... I rarely touch alcohol, I did have half a glass of DH's red wine the other evening but that was in sips not a whole gullop - it was OK-ish, a bit dry. If really thirsty I grab a bottle of lager ::) ........... but only take that one gulp to help.
Currently we are picking fruits and veg. from our garden .........