[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by lovsthosebigdogs

Villages PL, you may not have said it in THIS post, but having read most of your posts since I signed on to TOTV I feel I am familiar with your style of post and writing and I too feel you often attribute whatever goes wrong with people to their diet. If that's not true then maybe it's something you don't mean, but it appears that I am not the only one who gets that impression.

Let me explain how this post came about. I read the other thread "stories about knee replacements". I thought it was a helpful thread but there was no talk about what causes knees to wear out. And I didn't want to hijack that thread by changing the subject. So I decided to start this thread.

I have some knowledge of this subject but decided that it would be a good idea to provide a link as a backup. I should have provided two links because not all of the causes are on one link. The link I provided mentioned arthritis in paragraph 3, obesity and knee injuries in paragraph 5. I believe another link would have provided the rest including something about diet. I'll see if I can find it again.

I hesitate to explain my philosophy on diet because it's not easy to explain. Should I try again? And if I do, will anyone bother to remember? No, I don't think so because it's easier to slap a label on someone as being all this or all that.

If you like, I can make a general statement: Most degenerative diseases are caused by lifestyle. How's that? Will that do it?

I have bone on bone arthritis in my one knee and arthritis that isn't as severe in my other knee (as well as in my hip and other places). I am a woman's size extra small so it's not from extra weight and I am not an exercise fanatic so it's not from that.

Okay, good, we know what it's not.

However, I have a family history of arthritis and I spent many years caring for and carrying a handicapped child who could not walk or care for herself so I am certain that lifting and carrying her all day long did cause joint damage and wear for me.

A family history could likely mean a predisposition. Lifting and carrying a handicapped child could very likely be the cause. Wouldn't that essentially be the same as being a heavier person? If you're a small size woman carrying a heavy child, I don't see that as being good for your knee joints. As I have suggested, wear 'n' tear is wear 'n' tear, regardless of how it comes about. For some it's athletics, for some it's their job, and for some it's being heavy or carrying someone heavy.

My doctor has recommended replacements for me but I am not going to get them (yet). There are many reasons a person's joints can wear out.

And what reason do you feel I left out? The fact that you were lifting someone heavy? It still comes under the heading of "pressure on the knee joints" whether you are overweight or whether you are carrying someone heavy.

And living in the NE I can tell you that winter's cold is terribly painful for me and the warmth of summer is much easier on my joints. Now you have heard that from 2 people. I don't need a published study to say if that is true or not. I know that's true.

I never said it wasn't true. I simply said I lived in the north-east and hadn't heard of it.