I also used to smash quite a bit of ice cream a few nights a week but knocked that on the head about a year back. Might have a magnum a few times a month .
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any ketamine users on here ?
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How do we support ketamine users when their needs are so different?
For the last two years Megan has been in agony and unable to stand straight because of her ketamine use.
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Bananas and oranges are both high sugar and bananas are high carb. You're better off with berries, apples, pears. pomegranates and kiwi fruit - which are also higher in vit C than oranges.
Sugar and carbs also make your liver work harder and can lead to fatty liver disease, especially refined simple carbs like cakes and pastries. You should cut them out altogether if your liver is struggling already. White pasta isn't good either. Potatoes now and again in small doses are OK. In fact they're better for you than either brown rice or wholegrain pasta and contain a decent amount of vit C.
By the way, beetroot juice is extremely good for liver function and lowering blood pressure. You may not like it but you get used to it. A glass a day will help your liver.
He did ask me if I ran - I don’t even run for the bus these days
. And it’s only when I put pressure on the bone and no swellingNo pain at all otherwise
I detest beer or whisky and the fact it contains no sugar or carbohydrates i get zero hangover personally id rather red wine but I treat that as a dessert or treat on holidayAnd the least flavour.
I love my beetroot juice in the morning before work and its the only supplement I take as you said great for the liver and blood pressure
Tried to find some the other week in our large Tesco's and they don't sell it
beetroot shots would be good but nope ended up getting a mixed drink with beetroot as only one of the mix....
Ones I get here are beetroot with a plash of orange juice and turmeric it gives it a nice spicy flavour but still 90% beetroot but doesn't taste like garden soilTried to find some the other week in our large Tesco's and they don't sell it
I buy mine from the local big Tesco. They always have it, as do Morrisons. I guess it depends on your local store management and what they judge will sell. Grape Tree sell it but it's dearer.Tried to find some the other week in our large Tesco's and they don't sell it
Tried to find some the other week in our large Tesco's and they don't sell it
I bet that raised your blood pressure.
Nope, always chilled hereI bet that raised your blood pressure.
Why not eat beetroots as opposed to the juice? Sometimes I feel the need to eat something that tastes like a mouthful of soil as you say but when I don`t there are a few flavoured varieties about or just pickled in vinegar. My favourites are horseradish or chilli. Horseradish in particular IMO is fantastic but I love the taste of horseradish on its own anyway.Ones I get here are beetroot with a plash of orange juice and turmeric it gives it a nice spicy flavour but still 90% beetroot but doesn't taste like garden soil
My dad used to put pickled beetroot on everything...even lasagne
I guess you'd have to eat a lot of whole beetroot to get the same amount of nutrients that are in a glass of concentrated juice.
Personally I like both. I've always liked beetroot, boiled then peeled and eaten hot as I grew up with them fresh from the garden. Prefer that to pickled or shop-bought vac-packed cooked which are a bit limp and slimy. I also doubt that the commercial processing does much for the nutritional value.
Horseradish goes great with beetroot. I sometime add raw, peeled beetroot to oven roasted veggies, like potato wedges. It bakes in the flavour and they don't turn the rest of the veg red. Ideal with roast beef and horseradish.
You don't love the taste of horseradish. You just hate your life.
Tried to find some the other week in our large Tesco's and they don't sell it
Cheaper than carton just as good.
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I can't stand any of them their problem is they don't taste like ribeye
beetroot juice is one of the proven supplements to be proven in blood pressure reduction and general arterial health so I persevere with its taste
Chuck in some savoury seasonings like celery salt and worcester sauce. Or horseradish - unless you've got @Loz coming round for tea.I can't stand any of them their problem is they don't taste like ribeye
I don't eat any of that i can't even stand mayonnaise or pretty much any sauce
even when I ate bread 15 years ago I didn't take butter .. yes weird I know
What do you live on? Potatoes and Guinness??I don't eat any of that i can't even stand mayonnaise or pretty much any sauce
Meat ! mostly red meat and very little green veg , if i stirfry i might have some cauliflower rice eggfried for taste and yet more protein.. I don't eat potatoes and don't me starting about the ditch water
Are you really a secret Scotchman?Meat ! mostly red meat and very little green veg , if i stirfry i might have some cauliflower rice eggfried for taste and yet more protein.. I don't eat potatoes and don't me starting about the ditch water
Probably a good percentage yeaAre you really a secret Scotchman?
none of what you suggest I should eat has any particular nutritional value and I don't like the taste but then I have been looked at very strange at 6:30 in the morning eating a ribeye and scrambled egg .. I love my food which mostly needs no embellishments as far as I can see/taste
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An observation from when I was at the hospital the other day; around lunchtime in A&E they asked people who had been there a while if they wanted a sandwich - they all said yes (I only went in at 11am and they started dealing with me in 5 mins so I didn’t get asked. I was asked in the SDEC unit later but said no thanks). I was in the A&E waiting room 4 times between having tests.
Also in the SDEC two portly women from the voluntary service came round with a trolley full of sugary shite for sale, and most people bought something; crisps, drinks, chocolate bars.
And there was a machine in there aswell full of crap.
Everyone knows all this stuff is the worst for people’s health, and yet someone decided that’s what will be offered to the sick. It’s basically validating the worst of the worst to people who need all the help they can get.
What chance is there?
Also in the SDEC two portly women from the voluntary service came round with a trolley full of sugary shite for sale, and most people bought something; crisps, drinks, chocolate bars.
And there was a machine in there aswell full of crap.
Everyone knows all this stuff is the worst for people’s health, and yet someone decided that’s what will be offered to the sick. It’s basically validating the worst of the worst to people who need all the help they can get.
What chance is there?
It doesn't inspire much confidence when you have to go into hospital and find that most of the nurses seem to be wider than they are tall. If they can't look after their own health, what chance of taking care of someone else's?
My Mum was an SRN who trained at Guys Hospital. She became a matron and ward sister, when we still had those. She was very critical of today's overweight nurses, maintaining they were unfit to do the job and wouldn't be physically capable of the duties nurses had to carry out in her day. She was also baffled by the sight of nurses standing about at the nurse's station scrolling on their phones. She said on her ward if a nurse didn't have a patient to attend to she have given them a mop and a bucket and told them to clean something.
My Mum was an SRN who trained at Guys Hospital. She became a matron and ward sister, when we still had those. She was very critical of today's overweight nurses, maintaining they were unfit to do the job and wouldn't be physically capable of the duties nurses had to carry out in her day. She was also baffled by the sight of nurses standing about at the nurse's station scrolling on their phones. She said on her ward if a nurse didn't have a patient to attend to she have given them a mop and a bucket and told them to clean something.
