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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on October 13, 2009, 04:06:43 AM
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Oh my.
snagglepuss (593 posts) Sat Oct-10-09 12:12 PM
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Have you followed a health practice or idea you've later regretted?
For years I doused whatever I could with cinnamon. I was easily ingesting over a tablespoon daily. It was only later that I discovered that cinnamon had health benefits though I didn't pay attention to the amount that was healthy - I assumed that if a bit was good tons would be harmless. I have recently discovered that too much is actually harmful.
"Some cinnamon (Chinese or cassia cinnamon) contains a compound, coumarin. In excess, this can harm the liver of sensitive people."
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"Two tablespoons of cinnamon daily is a very big dose. You should have your liver enzymes checked when you see your doctor."
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/04/health/he-pharm...
I've also followed diets I've regretted such as one diet that promoted the idea to eating what one craves and not fight cravings - better to eat a donut than obsess about it. Supposedly giving into craving would eliminate the craving. I gave into to my cravings and put on weight.
I'm sure lots and lots of primitives use the "eat-what-you-crave" diet.
It's an enormous bonfire.
The defrocked warped primitive, many of whose problems--including a craving for pharmaceuticals meant for patients, not for nurses--can be easily cured if she'd just quaff down a quart of milk every day, and dine on lots of cheese and butter, and at least half a gallon of real ice cream:
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-10-09 01:38 PM
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17. I did the Stillman diet back in the early 70s when I was young and stupid and didn't know much. I'm one of those people who doesn't feel particularly good eating meat. Even eating seafood, cheese and nuts was terrible. I was constipated, sweating, shaking and miserable after the first week. I don't want to know what my renal function and liver enzymes were like. Really.
I decided at that point that fad deficiency diets were not going to work. In any case, people told me I was too thin anyway and I figured it was time to start listening.
Deja Q (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-10-09 12:18 PM
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2. Agreeing with one shrink who prescribed me pills that had me gaining 25 pounds... oh, and the chiro who ****ed me up that I had to have surgery to have a disc removed that was firmly embedded in my spinal cord. (oh, the shrink kept blaming the involuntary tremors as anxiety, gave me a pill, still had tremors, he blamed the pill for it all. I should have sued him back to the stone age, the ******* ****in' worthless piece of shit quack... one day I'll say how I truly feel about these grossly overpaid jackasses...).
snagglepuss (593 posts) Sat Oct-10-09 12:51 PM
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9. My whole family has wierd reactions to drugs. I was prescribed Tagamet once and the first night got Tachicardia which is a racing pulse. Doctor was stunned when the ECG came back said that it was a really rare side effect. I have since learned that doctors aren't required to report drug side effects so the extant of bad reactions go undocumented.
So I feel for you. Nothing worse than trusting a doctor only to get stuck with miserable side effects of a drug. As for chiros, I'm very leery of necks being cracked but I once opted to go to one but decided to go to a school that taught it. The teacher determined nothing wrong with spine so no ajustments but I was treated for soft muscle injury. Since that was okay and I then went to a private practice. The chiro said my back was okay but that I had fallen arches. That was priceless because I had once read that if chiros don't find anything wrong
Mrs. Overall (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-10-09 12:19 PM
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3. I was vegan for awhile for health reasons--and I ended up seriously and dangerously anemic.
cmd (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-10-09 12:22 PM
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4. Every diet I have ever been on
Every one has ended up with gaining the pounds back plus more pounds. I should have been happy to be a size 14 and curvy.
franksolich never paid attention to women's dress sizes.
Is size 14 svelte-like?
snagglepuss (593 posts) Sat Oct-10-09 12:36 PM
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7. I got anemic on a vegetarian diet but only because I was going through a difficult period and had no motivation to cook. Being vegetarian really requires effort and I imagine being a vegan needs even more.
This reminds me of another dumb thing I did. Once an acquittance who taught nursing mentioned in a conversation that people shouldn't take iron supplements due the possibility of hematomacrosis. She said the body will keep iron stores. For some reason I took that advice to heart and its bad advice especially if one is vegetarian female with heavy periods. Before my anemia was diagnosed I simply attributed my extreme fatigue due to the graveyard shift I was on, it never dawned on me that I might be low on iron because I assumed that the body kept iron stores intact and that companies that flogged iron supplements were simply con artists. My iron stores were so low that had I waited any longer my doctor said I would have need a transfusion.
tabatha (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-10-09 01:31 PM
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16. Yep, after a tick bite when the tick was only attached for about 5 minutes
The doctor prescribed two sequential 6-week courses of antibiotics (12 weeks in all) for possible lyme disease.
I found out later that for a 5 minute tick attachment, no procedure is necessary.
I should have taken probiotics during the course but did not.
After that I became susceptible to fungus, and have slowly learned to eat only certain foods to get rid of that susceptibility. I am now trying to follow the paleo diet.
CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-10-09 02:21 PM
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25. I continue to refuse to get a mammogram.
Maybe I'll regret it someday, but I'm just not convinced that squeezing my breasts & dosing them with radiation is a good thing.
Interestingly, my doctor has been harping on me about the mammogram for the past 7 years but has never said a word about my expanding mid-section. Last year, only when I inquired how much I weighed, did she noticed that I had lost 25 pounds. She made a brief comment, but then immediately proceeded to give me the mammogram lecture.
My sister, who is obese, says her doctor never talks to her about her weight. Her doctor will check her for weight related health issues, but never addresses the base cause.
The "artist" mopinko primitive, who lives in an affluent suburb of Chicago:
mopinko (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-11-09 12:12 PM
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43. i was afraid of birth control pills.
i have 5 kids. i wonder sometimes if cancer would not have been easier.
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-11-09 12:12 PM
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43. i was afraid of birth control pills.
i have 5 kids. i wonder sometimes if cancer would not have been easier.
It reproduced . . . :bawl: :censored: :banghead: :o
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I get all my medical advice from the DUmp...... :hammer:
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-11-09 12:12 PM
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43. i was afraid of birth control pills.
i have 5 kids. i wonder sometimes if cancer would not have been easier.
Is this person really wondering if having cancer is easier than having kids?
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Is this person really wondering if having cancer is easier than having kids?
Pretty disgusting, isn't it? I would have expected her to get slapped around by anyone with cancer or that knows someone with cancer.
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Is this person really wondering if having cancer is easier than having kids?
Pretty disgusting, isn't it? I would have expected her to get slapped around by anyone with cancer or that knows someone with cancer.
Only someone who worships that death cult we know as "liberalism" could equate the creation, carrying, nurturing, and delivering of life onto this planet with a disease that amounts to rotting from the inside-out. It's very illuminating to read her thoughts on the matter, and I nominate her to the "Posts that stand alone" sticky.
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Dear DUmmies--is THIS what you were trying to achieve by eating cinnamon?
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neSrNC4JFOw[/youtube]
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franksolich never paid attention to women's dress sizes.
Is size 14 svelte-like?
At the DUmp? Yes.
In the real world? Not so much. :evillaugh:
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Only someone who worships that death cult we know as "liberalism" could equate the creation, carrying, nurturing, and delivering of life onto this planet with a disease that amounts to rotting from the inside-out. It's very illuminating to read her thoughts on the matter, and I nominate her to the "Posts that stand alone" sticky.
The mopinko primitive is an "artist" who lives in an affluent suburb of Chicago; her husband brings home the bacon, while she makes the home. Later middle-aged.
The mopinko primitive is obsessed with colonic-intestinal problems, many of which are probably just in her head, and used as a means to garner attention and to play the victim of society; a society that hasn't turned out the way the mopinko primitive thinks it should have. After all, the world was made for the mopinko primitive, not the mopinko primitive for the world.
The mopinko primitive is notoriously sharp, or thinks she is, always on guard against being cheated. She once hired some low-paid guys to hang a new front door--this, during the "lousy" Bush economy, and the old front door had nothing wrong with it--and was sorely disappointed that she didn't get Old World Craftsmanship paying illegal-alien-under-the-table wages.
The mopinko primitive wants to divorce her husand, but self-admittedly can't give up the standard of living he so generously and magnanimously bestows upon her.
It's sort of the same case with the racist babbling sister primitive.
I guess the rule here is that if one's wife is a primitive, men, don't cater to them, because all one gets is ingratitude and mockery on Skins's island.
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At the DUmp? Yes.
In the real world? Not so much. :evillaugh:
:rofl:
Svelte? Maybe if she's 6'3.
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Cinnamon has been shown to significantly reduce triglycerides in the blood stream.
The dosage for this is 1-2 GRAMS a day.
Stupid DUmmy.
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If someone is say 5'6", and wears a size 14, they are probably 160-165 lbs.
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-10-09 02:21 PM
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My sister, who is obese, says her doctor never talks to her about her weight. Her doctor will check her for weight related health issues, but never addresses the base cause.
Doctors are scared of lawsuits because people get all offended and sue.
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-11-09 12:12 PM
43. i was afraid of birth control pills.
i have 5 kids. i wonder sometimes if cancer would not have been easier.[/quote]
You go ahead and get that cancer and tell us, MORON. Do you really hate your own children that much? Of course, YOUR A DUMMIE
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franksolich never paid attention to women's dress sizes.
Is size 14 svelte-like?
Definitely overweight, but some women can still pull off an attractive look at that level. Not all that many. Looks, of course, aren't everything, but the rest is pretty much solid moonbat in this case.
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Is this person really wondering if having cancer is easier than having kids?
Could be worse than that. Remember, this is the DUmp.
She may be referring to dogs, or snakes.
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The best diet in the world is "everything in moderation". If I want a piece of cheesecake I have it and a portion big enough to satisfy my craving sometimes that's only a couple of bites and others it's the whole fat & calorie-laden piece. If I want a mushroom swiss from McDonald's occasionally when I'm in town running errands, I get one. I enjoy every cholesterol & saturated fat packed bite. For heaven's sake, if you watch your diet 95% of the time and exercise regularly, you can splurge 5% of the time (well, unless you weigh over 400lbs). I've been on this earth and eating long enough to know what foods work best for my body. Those are the foods I keep in my house. You can't eat an entire package of cookies or a box of donuts if they're not available. I don't think there's anything these people don't obsess over.
Cindie