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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Senior Citizen,
Not all wreckless drivers get into accidents and not all careful drivers manage to avoid accidents. Does that mean it doesn't matter how we drive?
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Did you mean reckless drivers? Or those who never had a wreck?
I did say "one size does not fit all"......same idea.
Often, we cannot see the forest for the trees.............
Restricting calories and a fixation on depriving oneself on a daily basis is not normal. But then, any mom or dad who has raised a healthy family who now are raising their own healthy families......do know about healthy eating............without being a martyr or borderline anorexic.........
I forgot to mention that when my mom went into the skilled nursing, her geriatric doctor suggested "trying her on Aricept" for a test......knowing full well that it can take away their appetite and also cause dizziness..both of which happened in my mom (who was severely demented with Alzheimers) ..........she lost all of the healthy weight I had put back on her by giving her three healthy nutritious meals per day in my home for six years......bringing her weight back up from the 85 lbs. to 100 lbs...........then going back down to the 85 lbs. on her 4'll" frame.
One day after beginning the Aricept (which was to help slow down the memory loss; she had her LONG TERM MEMORY but not her short term memory)......she stood up from the sofa in the assisted living home and said, "Oh, I feel dizzy". She also always , her entire life, had low blood pressure (which again is different than that article re the high blood pressure)........also, Aricept has been known to cause dizziness......
A crew of painters heard her comment and called in the nurse who called an ambulance which transported her to the hospital (for a side effect from the Aricept).....the dizziness.
After a few days in hospital with all kinds of tests including some "brain wave" test which left her with little "x's" all over her head......she was released. They could find nothing wrong with her.
An internist, who happens to also be our neighbor, called me at home to say that (as I've mentioned before) all of her bodily organs were excellent for her AGE.......which at the time was late 80's.....she was still in middle stage Alzheimers..........he said her lungs, her heart, and all of her other parts that they checked were excellent.......again, for her age.
My mom did NOT do well on prescription drugs, so the geriatric doctor and I agreed to take her off of Aricept. It also made her lose all the weight again........however, once she went to skilled nursing care facility, they put the weight back on her by spoon feeding her three meals, plus other snacks per day. If they wanted her stick thin, they wouldn't have fed them so well............the trays were humongous with all kinds of offerings.
They wanted them to eat.
We shared one Thanksgiving dinner there as she was too frail to come back home to our place.......as did other families.......even a neighbor's daughter in law and son in law, an Air Force General from Virginia, was visiting at the Thanksgiving dinner........and we all ate the same food they eat every day and it was delicious............this was a private nursing home.
Up until the day of her death, they attempted to feed her and offer her fluids.......but she could no longer swallow.......so nature took over.
At 91, it was her time to go.......it didn't take long with the "comfort care" or "palliative care".......it was very peaceful........not what I expected.
But I will say it again, she never had belly fat and still got Alzheimers.
Her blood pressure was LOW. Her whole life she would get dizzy when standing up from a chair. Everyone is different. WE all know that.
She also was allergic to sulphur drugs and knew it.......this is why she never took pharmaceuticals. Even with the Alzheimers she kept her mobility until near the end when they put her in a wheelchair.
When she lived with us, she could walk as fast as a teenager.
Our neighbors would comment on that.
The way I look at it, none of us is getting out of here ALIVE.
So, we all have to go from something.
Why worry about it every single waking moment?