It seems that addiction is a successful business tactic. Whether it is tobacco, UPF, gambling, or social media.
What they call “Weissi haut Krebs” here is more usually Basal Cell Carcenoma but can apply to either BCC and actinic keratosis. BCC is (almost always) non-malignant but also still needs removing.
I’m finding at my age (mid 60s) pretty well everyone I know has had at least one BCC.
Fork… what new hell is this? Not going to google it, don’t want to know.
Now my scalp is itching like a mofo.
Allergy to something? Dry skin due to the drier air?
Nope, got it from reading AbFab’s post.
I listened to an interesting podcast the other day about aging.
A doctor who dealt with dementia would always ask patients how much alcohol they drank before running any tests.
If it was more than a few units a week, she would tell them to stop drinking and come back in three months.
Many of the patients found their dementia had been cured.
The liver is less efficient in metabolising alcohol in older people (70 year old and older) and so basically a substantial amount of alcohol remained in the bloodstream - basically these people were constantly drunk!
It may partly explain the number of traffic accidents caused by older drivers.
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It also explains why I was able to drink obscene amounts in my 20s and still be functional the next day, whereas now, even one drink impacts me to a degree that I’ve just stopped drinking completely.
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I was pondering whether to do the same.
If I have a couple of drinks (two, small) on a Friday night, I invariably wake up with a headache and a general feeling of being out-of-sorts on Saturday.
I am thinking of getting a coravin to enjoy a small amount of good wine without having to trash or spoil the whole bottle.
Their prices seem a little extreme. Is their a European equivalent?
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I assume people are going to use these for premium wines and not a supermarket bottle of plonk so the prices do not seem too extreme if one is regularly wasting expensive wine.
Vacuvin is also another cheaper option.
I heard that vacuum solutions are basically almost worthless while argon based ones are used in high end restaurants with expensive bottles
I never waste wine, be it expensive or plonk.
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I had a similar wake-up call about sugar content several years ago. The UK government introduced a limit to the sugar content of breakfast cereals. So I decided to check the label of the “no added sugar” muesli I’d been buying from the “health-food” section of the supermarket. Turned out that it’s sugar content was higher than the UK limit, presumably because of the dried fruit it contained. So I started making my own muesli from rolled oats and four types of seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, sesame and linseed, the last two of which I grind up in a coffee grinder (otherwise they go straight through you, says my doctor)). It’s cheaper and I lost a bit of weight. I also stopped eating flavoured yoghurt a while back after discovering that the stuff I’d been buying had a 13% sugar content.
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I had the same realization with muesli and joghurt. I switched to plain outs and plain joghurt.
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I have plain Skyr type yoghurt with fresh fruit in the morning. I had a DEXA scan a couple of years back that detected ostopenia and was recommended to have Skyr as I don’t consume milk or cheese. The bone doctor also told me to swap my brand of fizzy water for Eptinger which is high in calcium salts. I also take VitD3 drops and calcium plus halibut oil for my joints.
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