heart condition

[Doodski]

eye focus is slowly improving back to normal , its taken over a month because of that lousy insulin , i give it maybe few more weeks for focus to sharpen bit more %

heart condition and legs blood circulation for past 4 to 5 no days now has been better than the no weeks before it

GOOD! Keep up the good work Andy.

 

[BDWoody]

yourself okay feeling well ?

Yes... Can't complain about how I'm feeling or any test results, so I'm good with that for now.

 

[AdamG]

Just a general FYI. Looks like some medical studies are beginning to align in agreement about the possible health effects from cooking with Gas.

New study finds household appliance tied to nearly 20,000 premature deaths: 'We should focus on solutions'

Policymakers are beginning to act on this invisible threat.

www.yahoo.com

Cooking on gas stoves emits benzene

About 47 million homes use natural gas or propane-burning cooktops and ovens. Stanford researchers found that cooking with gas stoves can raise indoor levels of the carcinogen benzene above those found in secondhand smoke.

news.stanford.edu

Gas stoves are even worse for our health than previously known, new study finds » Yale Climate Connections

Cooking with gas emits dangerous levels of benzene, a carcinogen, into household air.

yaleclimateconnections.org

 

[Ron Texas]

I have a gass cooktop and I'm not dead yet. Problems are alleviated by having a ventilated hood.

 

[JeffS7444]

Baked beans and orange juice (actually, fruit juices and smoothies in general) are loaded with sugar, but fresh whole fruit is great, and beans in general have lots of fiber.

Jacket potatoes: Depends on whether you eat the skin (most of the fiber is there), and what toppings you choose. If you're needing to keep things on the light side, maybe opt for plain yogurt + chives, or just eat plain.

During colder parts of the year, I eat lots of oatmeal for breakfast, usually without sweetener or dairy. But I'll add spices, including ginger, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon: Basically some of the same sorts of ingredients which go into masala chai.

If you're accustomed to the fatty/salty/umami-ness of sausages and other cured meats, it may take some time for your taste buds to adapt. And until they do, properly healthy meals might seem sad and lacking unless laden with butter and cheese, which defeats the purpose.

 

[OldHvyMec]

health effects from cooking with Gas.

My Grandmother was 99 years old. My Aunt is 96 both used gas. It's likely standing over a stove FRYING foods. I wear a simple handkerchief when frying foods or
BBQing. 101 lung protection. Short order cooks die at an alarming rate. The fact that I seldom eat other peoples food leaves me with one person to blame. I haven't eaten fast foods in 40 years and never was a fan. Asian, Mexican and the occasional Mello's NY style pizza. All the places I eat at are once a month or every other month and have eaten there for 45+ years.

Beans, Greens, yams and rice. That is my main staple. What ever fruit is ripe on my trees, currently PLUMs. Thompson and red flames are about 3 weeks out.
I used to eat a lot of nuts, almonds and pecans mainly. I eat peanut and cashew butter now. My friggin teeth are going bad so that is the alternative.

Fish 4 times a month, chicken 4 times a month, red meat 4 times a month, and pork meat 4 times a month. I seldom eat bacon or sausage. But
I sure like it. Italian sausage about 8 pounds and 8 pounds of sirloin ground in my pasta sauce. I make 20 quarts at a time twice a year, from
local Roma growers. I make a LOT of fresh pasta too.

When the fruit is panned out for the season, Blue Machine, a single cup mixed with dried beet powder and a banana.

I love a good burger too, with homemade potato salad. A croissant or a good bun, spicy mustard, mayo, tomatoes and greens.

I make fresh Vanilla Gelato every other week in the summer. I make my own vanilla extract from Vera Cruz vanilla bean. I usually pick up 2kg a year. I hand out the beans
at Christmas gathering every year. I go through a quart of concentrated 5X vanilla about every 2-3 months.

BTW I pick wild mushrooms every year, meadow, horseshoe, puffballs and Shantrells. In the store baby portabellas (sp). BTW I can stomach any food but I don't. I'm not a picky eater at all. I like BUGS too. Wild locus and grubs aren't too bad with fern fobs and honey.

The food I eat is a combination of my grandmothers cooking and my father-in-laws cooking. She was Irish, he was from Chihuahua Mexico. She was born in 1889
he was born in 1913. She lived to be 99, he lived to be 95 and Carmen my MIL lived to be 98. They seldom ate out. As a matter of fact I NEVER knew my
grandmother to eat out unless we picked her up in Moody Texas and took her some where like Antioch CA. LOL She was a hoot to travel with. I miss them
dearly. They all LOVED my stereo system.

We inherited my FIL system. Marantz 7c and DM300 Jensen Imperials and a Gerrard 301. My granny still had the old Victrola. I have it now.
I remember the Wizard of OZ on 78s and we had to wind it up. Speaking of HEARTS (Tinman) The storms would come and the lights would go out.
Not at my grandmothers house. Piano, mouth harp (my mom) and the old Victrola. She still used lanterns in the house when she passed.

She walked to church until she was 90+ years old Baptist lady. She never had a drivers license and she never drank a drop of liquor in her life.
She grew her own Opium too, that used to crack ne up. Once in the morning in her tea. All the old people in that town grew Opium Poppy
mainly for the flowers (LOL) that's what they said.

She never smoked and survived the friggin dust bowl, dirt farming from 1920-1960s, gas stoves, and white gas lanterns in the house. She liked
Nate King Cole and Elvis. She could play that piano too. SHE NEVER GAVE UP until her last breath.
She was an Angel that wore an apron and a bonnet. Yup Papaw!

Regards.

 

[AdamG]

My Grandmother was 99 years old. My Aunt is 96 both used gas. It's likely standing over a stove FRYING foods. I wear a simple handkerchief when frying foods or
BBQing. 101 lung protection. Short order cooks die at an alarming rate. The fact that I seldom eat other peoples food leaves me with one person to blame. I haven't eaten fast foods in 40 years and never was a fan. Asian, Mexican and the occasional Mello's NY style pizza. All the places I eat at are once a month or every other month and have eaten there for 45+ years.

Beans, Greens, yams and rice. That is my main staple. What ever fruit is ripe on my trees, currently PLUMs. Thompson and red flames are about 3 weeks out.
I used to eat a lot of nuts, almonds and pecans mainly. I eat peanut and cashew butter now. My friggin teeth are going bad so that is the alternative.

Fish 4 times a month, chicken 4 times a month, red meat 4 times a month, and pork meat 4 times a month. I seldom eat bacon or sausage. But
I sure like it. Italian sausage about 8 pounds and 8 pounds of sirloin ground in my pasta sauce. I make 20 quarts at a time twice a year, from
local Roma growers. I make a LOT of fresh pasta too.

When the fruit is panned out for the season, Blue Machine, a single cup mixed with dried beet powder and a banana.

I love a good burger too, with homemade potato salad. A croissant or a good bun, spicy mustard, mayo, tomatoes and greens.

I make fresh Vanilla Gelato every other week in the summer. I make my own vanilla extract from Vera Cruz vanilla bean. I usually pick up 2kg a year. I hand out the beans
at Christmas gathering every year. I go through a quart of concentrated 5X vanilla about every 2-3 months.

BTW I pick wild mushrooms every year, meadow, horseshoe, puffballs and Shantrells. In the store baby portabellas (sp). BTW I can stomach any food but I don't. I'm not a picky eater at all. I like BUGS too. Wild locus and grubs aren't too bad with fern fobs and honey.

The food I eat is a combination of my grandmothers cooking and my father-in-laws cooking. She was Irish, he was from Chihuahua Mexico. She was born in 1889
he was born in 1913. She lived to be 99, he lived to be 95 and Carmen my MIL lived to be 98. They seldom ate out. As a matter of fact I NEVER knew my
grandmother to eat out unless we picked her up in Moody Texas and took her some where like Antioch CA. LOL She was a hoot to travel with. I miss them
dearly. They all LOVED my stereo system.

We inherited my FIL system. Marantz 7c and DM300 Jensen Imperials and a Gerrard 301. My granny still had the old Victrola. I have it now.
I remember the Wizard of OZ on 78s and we had to wind it up. Speaking of HEARTS (Tinman) The storms would come and the lights would go out.
Not at my grandmothers house. Piano, mouth harp (my mom) and the old Victrola. She still used lanterns in the house when she passed.

She walked to church until she was 90+ years old Baptist lady. She never had a drivers license and she never drank a drop of liquor in her life.
She grew her own Opium too, that used to crack ne up. Once in the morning in her tea. All the old people in that town grew Opium Poppy
mainly for the flowers (LOL) that's what they said.

She never smoked and survived the friggin dust bowl, dirt farming from 1920-1960s, gas stoves, and white gas lanterns in the house. She liked
Nate King Cole and Elvis. She could play that piano too. SHE NEVER GAVE UP until her last breath.
She was an Angel that wore an apron and a bonnet. Yup Papaw!

Regards.

I have a gass cooktop and I'm not dead yet. Problems are alleviated by having a ventilated hood.

I personally have no dog in this fight. We don’t have gas available here or that’s what we would use. Only option was basic electric stovetop or Induction. We tried induction and the wife didn’t like it at first but now she loves how fast it heats the pan and how quickly she can control the heat. When the meal calls for open flame charring like burgers and steaks we use the outdoor grill. Like grilled veggies. They just don’t come out as good as an open flame. Outdoor cooking is pretty much something you can do all year long here.

I only posted it because labored breathing was a symptom and I figured the more you know the better. So, don’t shoot the messenger here guys. More data points might help in the particular case.

 

[Tom C]

If benzene from my stove is a problem, then step one is to provide a monitor for my home to measure the extent of the problem. Just like we do for radon.

 

[Ron Texas]

I personally have no dog in this fight. We don’t have gas available here or that’s what we would use. Only option was basic electric stovetop or Induction. We tried induction and the wife didn’t like it at first but now she loves how fast it heats the pan and how quickly she can control the heat. When the meal calls for open flame charring like burgers and steaks we use the outdoor grill. Like grilled veggies. They just don’t come out as good as an open flame. Outdoor cooking is pretty much something you can do all year long here.

I only posted it because labored breathing was a symptom and I figured the more you know the better. So, don’t shoot the messenger here guys. More data points might help in the particular case.

Induction is the best alternative to gas. Aluminum pots don't work, but that's the only drawback. I have an indoor grill built into the cooktop, but it's hard to clean so it does not get used a lot. Maybe the mess wouldn't be so bad with vegetables. Steaks I cook in a frying pan. That's a minority approach. Around here when steaks are on sale they are as cheap as hamburger.

 

[DonH56]

Electricity is far more expensive than natural gas for us, we like the instant on/off of gas, and have a bunch of Al pans/pots/stuff plus for whatever reason my wife doesn't care for induction cooktops (some of our sons' apartments had them). We're also at capacity for our rural service and would have to pay around $80k (as of a few years ago, doubt it has gone down!) to add/upgrade our service line to add an electric range. Add that to fairly frequent electric outages from minutes to days, and we'll keep our gas as long as possible.

All of which has nothing to do with wishing @Andysu and @BDWoody well and hope they continue to improve!

 

[Ron Texas]

Electricity is far more expensive than natural gas for us, we like the instant on/off of gas, and have a bunch of Al pans/pots/stuff plus for whatever reason my wife doesn't care for induction cooktops (some of our sons' apartments had them). We're also at capacity for our rural service and would have to pay around $80k (as of a few years ago, doubt it has gone down!) to add/upgrade our service line to add an electric range. Add that to fairly frequent electric outages from minutes to days, and we'll keep our gas as long as possible.

All of which has nothing to do with wishing @Andysu and @BDWoody well and hope they continue to improve!

Studies indicate typically electricity is much more expensive than gas. It takes 3 times as much gas to generate the electricity to create as much heat as burning the gas where the heat is used. I don't know how this works out in utility bills as electricity comes from a mix of sources and renewables are subsidized.

 

[JeffS7444]

Think what we've been been discussing were once known as "diseases of affluence": Big Food did a fantastic job of ensuring that everyone had access to tasty and affordable choices. But some of the same qualities which made this miracle possible (good shelf life, high yields, easy to transport) gave us the sort of processed foods that are now a big part of the world's diet.

There's about 3 tsp of sugar in a half can of Heinz baked beans, and 1.3 grams of sodium (but I might not reach for the "no added sugar" version just yet).

 

[Andysu]

last 24 hrs feeling lousy thumbs down , i have been out of heart rate meds for less than week and way been feeling can't make it down the road , ( but after some recovery later to day ) i managed get my walking legs into motion , slow motion at taking it steady , for some fish and chips as not had any for 6 or 7 weeks

last 24 hrs had maybe some sort of panic attack with the tummy issue that caused some shortness in breath or catching my breath and thinking i'm going to be toast , but checked blood pressure it seemed on the high side by small amount which is usual with my case/condition

i took a sugar level reading thinking my sugar levels may be alarming high and was around 9.2 and that's okay thou okay is usually between 4 and 8 so 9.2 is okay

i think i have gotten over what ever it was past 24 hrs , pick up the extra meds next week
ECG monitor , pulse rate still shows same erratic graph reading thou i only need to listen to know what it sounds like

i think i can , or may make it though with a struggle or two , its the catching my breath part that concerns me and i have tried some techniques such as , close my eyes and focus forward and move my eyes upwards and after few seconds , believe it or not i notice a mind recovery , interesting ?

eye focus continues to slowly recover back to normal and i wonder now if i really am , type II dietetic or hospital made an error , due to the excessive amount of , fanta orange zero , i drank 2ilt bottles each day with all sweeter and addaction i would say the blood sugar level 24 was due to all that drink , otherwise i was thinking before i used my suagr level meter , my levels maybe 15 and when i saw it was , 9.2 i knew it wasn't of much worry

thanks

 

[Doodski]

last 24 hrs feeling lousy thumbs down , i have been out of heart rate meds for less than week and way been feeling can't make it down the road , ( but after some recovery later to day ) i managed get my walking legs into motion , slow motion at taking it steady , for some fish and chips as not had any for 6 or 7 weeks

last 24 hrs had maybe some sort of panic attack with the tummy issue that caused some shortness in breath or catching my breath and thinking i'm going to be toast , but checked blood pressure it seemed on the high side by small amount which is usual with my case/condition

i took a sugar level reading thinking my sugar levels may be alarming high and was around 9.2 and that's okay thou okay is usually between 4 and 8 so 9.2 is okay

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i think i have gotten over what ever it was past 24 hrs , pick up the extra meds next week
ECG monitor , pulse rate still shows same erratic graph reading thou i only need to listen to know what it sounds like

i think i can , or may make it though with a struggle or two , its the catching my breath part that concerns me and i have tried some techniques such as , close my eyes and focus forward and move my eyes upwards and after few seconds , believe it or not i notice a mind recovery , interesting ?

eye focus continues to slowly recover back to normal and i wonder now if i really am , type II dietetic or hospital made an error , due to the excessive amount of , fanta orange zero , i drank 2ilt bottles each day with all sweeter and addaction i would say the blood sugar level 24 was due to all that drink , otherwise i was thinking before i used my suagr level meter , my levels maybe 15 and when i saw it was , 9.2 i knew it wasn't of much worry

thanks

Keep on keeping on Andy... If it makes you feel better and more competitive I'll race you for who can lose 20 pounds the fastest.

 

[Andysu]

Keep on keeping on Andy... If it makes you feel better and more competitive I'll race you for who can lose 20 pounds the fastest.

i prefer to walk ,

this what i bought

 

[Doodski]

i prefer to walk ,

this what i bought

Sigh... I hate pinpricks but I don't complain when a nurse, doctor or radiologist is poking me. I had recent diagnosis of arthritis in the lower back and hips. So walking and lotsa drinking water is going to be the preferred weight loss workout. I might swim sometimes too. I recently also had steroid injections into my spine and hips and that helped majorly. The aching pain is gone and no more shooting pains too.

 

[JeffS7444]

i managed get my walking legs into motion , slow motion at taking it steady , for some fish and chips

 

[Andysu]

Sigh... I hate pinpricks but I don't complain when a nurse, doctor or radiologist is poking me. I had recent diagnosis of arthritis in the lower back and hips. So walking and lotsa drinking water is going to be the preferred weight loss workout. I might swim sometimes too. I recently also had steroid injections into my spine and hips and that helped majorly. The aching pain is gone and no more shooting pains too.

i can relate to spike pains thou more like pinching under the skin
get ready for a " sharp scratch " grit my teeth every time , nurses actually do other nurses with needles , sort reminds me , as i sort of feel like being tired to a couch

 

[Andysu]

not been on for a while , september , rbh no not loudspeakers , rbh hospital again , thought i was having heart attack , as it turned out a bit of confusion with medication got muddled up , medication has been sorted out and i appear okay now , but physically not 100% more like +/-90%

i sadly lost my cat Magic 10th september and i've not gotten over the grief he had liver issues and he was put to ,,,,,, he was 8 1/2 years old
Magic 2016 - 2024

 

[Neddy]

So very sorry for your loss, especially so young. I'll keep him in my memory, too.
RIP.