If we live long enough, and hopefully we do, we all get old. Many of us will get aches and pains, especially if we haven’t taken care of ourselves in earlier years. I’m not sure but I think that’s most of us. I personally smoked, I ate too much of the wrong foods, And never listened to what the doctors told me. At least very seldom. I grew up in the deep south were fried food was a way of living, neither of my parents knew anything about physical fitness (if they did they kept that a very well hidden secret) and fed us all to get fat. German chocolate cake, fried chicken, brownies, roast beef on Sundays, steaks on the grill, green beans cooked in pork fat, pinto beans cooked in pork fat, and all sorts of casseroles swimming and cheese, butter, and anything else in the refrigerator that would give you a heart attack and later years. But, in the 1960s there was nothing not to like. We sat in front of the TV most weekends, watch cartoons and ate cereal from the advertisements they pushed her our way. Almost 3 hours of continuous cartoons were the highlight of a kids week, along with the Cap’n Crunch, rice crispies, and Kellogg’s frosted cornflakes. Tony the Tiger was cool as awe get out. And that’s the way we put it back then. For a fifth grader, life was good. And that’s the way we put it back then. For a fifth grader, life was good.
By the time I was 40 I had high blood pressure. By the time I was 50 I had had a full-blown stroke and one stent placed in my heart. By the time I was 60 I had 13 full-blown strokes, not TIAs, and three heart attacks. Now at 65 years old I have, in addition to everything else, chronic kidney failure stage 3A, Polycythemia vera (a form of blood cancer) and severe arthritis. Payback is a bitch! But at 65 years old I am learning what you eat can kill you...or make you feel like death warmed over.
This is a discussion for sharing experiences, good and bad, and a few lessons learned. Come back soon and stay tuned.
Kel
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