Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
I ate a bowl of black bean soup for dinner. Made a new spinach and artichoke dip to snack on earlier. It was an easy recipe and very tasty.
I have improved my diet, but still enjoy my beer. Quit smoking with breast cancer two years ago. Have exercised more. Not much caffeine any more! Not even on Saturday as the crazy coffee shop does not open on Saturday.
I am pulling for San Diego St, the underdog in the men's championship game. UConn has been there many times before! Charles Barkley is betting on San Diego!
Louisiana won the women's championship with Iowa. I was pleased for LSU primarily because I had had enough of Caitlin Clark's attitude and even stating in an interview that she is the best in women's hoops! But, to tell the truth I was disgusted by the sportsmanship of Iowa's Caitlin Clark and LSU's Angel Reese! Detracts from the game!
Coach Kim is amazing at LSU! Geaux Tigers! She wasn’t coaching there when my daughter attended LSU. She is so well loved in Tiger country!
I want San Diego to win tonight too. I love San Diego! We had a great time visiting there. I have a cousin who has lived there for 18 years. He loves it. He will come home once a year to see family. He hates the humidity here after living in California.
This fits with what I have been reading about alcohol. The acceptable amount - health risk wise - has been going down,
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-alcohol-research-shows-drinking-small-amounts-can-still-be-harmful-to-health#:~:text=Now%20a%20panel%20of%20advisors,to%20two%20drinks%20per%20week.
"Canadian health authorities had previously said that a low-risk amount of alcohol was about 10 drinks per week. But, just recently, a panel of advisers to the government, citing some of this research about alcohol's impacts, suggested lowering that to two drinks per week."
and
"I should mention that alcohol is actually considered a class one carcinogen or cancer-causing agent by the World Health Organization. So that's the same category as benzene and tobacco smoke. And some studies estimate that a drink of alcohol has about the same cancer-causing potential as one to two cigarettes, depending on your sex."
and
"As an example, the risk of breast cancer goes somewhere between eight and 10 percent increase with each additional drink that a woman consumes per day on average. So, that's an important thing. And we know from surveys that only a small fraction of the population understands the cancer link."
and more concerns with cardiovascular and brain/mental health.
Thankfully, alcohol has never been a regular part of my life. Can't remember the last time I had an alcoholic drink.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28735-5
The authors of the study found that drinking a moderate amount of alcohol often can cause the volumes of white and gray matter to shrink in the brain. More importantly, they found that just drinking two beers each day could cause damage similar to 10 years of aging.
And of course your size matters. The smaller you are the great the effect on you.
Turned off the BB game, San Diego is looking lost.
I never drink hard liquor, always a beer, maybe a margarita if I go out for mexican.
Oh gosh, New Orleans is doomed! Lots of heavy drinking here.
How far back does drinking go? Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding! That was his first miracle that he performed.
Golden,
Do you believe that grilled meat contains carcinogens? Some people say that it does. I hate that because my husband makes delicious food on the grill.
The study quoted two beers a day as being able to damage your brain.
The studies of the effect of alcohol on the brain looked at MRIs and saw brain shrinkage related to alcohol consumption.
Grilled meat does contain carcinogens. It's the cooking at high temperatures that does it.
Coffee reduces the risk of strokes. That's decaf or caffeinated. Caffeine can affect your blood pressure. I believe the jury is out as to negative affects of coffee other than that.
Eggs are certainly OK in moderation. I eat eggs pretty well daily and they haven't hurt me.
We each have to find our way through this maze of information. I keep tabs on medical information as it relates to the field I studied.
I don't think I over do, 4-6 a week, maybe? And do they really go bad?
And all of the food warnings and such I think probably vary depending on body chemistry, heredity and who know what all!
On eggs, I have learned that if they are farm fresh, unwashed can be kept on the counter, unrefrigerated for a month!
https://www.outdoorhappens.com/how-long-do-farm-fresh-eggs-last/
Did San Diego bomb out? I turned the television off because I am getting ready for bed. I’m tired.
It is 45-35 now. Not a completely lost cause. I am.Just tired.
Goodnight, Glad, Golden and Tech, I’m going to sleep. Have a great evening.
Techie,
Thanks for the update.
I love my coffee too. There are health benefits to drinking coffee. It has many antioxidants which lower the risk of some diseases.
Night everyone.💤😴💤
I watched this interesting, informative, and persuasive two-hour YouTube talk a few months ago. It made an impression, and I decided I would reserve drinking to only occasional social times where I feel like it's worth it.
https://youtu.be/DkS1pkKpILY
Post menopause, I suppose about five years ago, I started feeling really ill if I drank at all so I stopped doing it.
We have a charming pair of handsome young identical twin doctor presenters called Chris and Xand Van Tulleken who out of pure public spiritedness did a study on themselves to compare the effects of moderate and binge drinking. One of them drank in moderation (i.e. within current guidelines) for the length of the study, and the other got completely sozzled at weekends only, and then they had themselves tested for all sorts of markers. Is binge drinking really that harmful? they wanted to know.
Long story short: yes. And so is moderate drinking.
There are still some clips available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wdfhk/clips
but the BBC in its wisdom isn't streaming the full show. They probably taped over it by accident.
cm -same message essentially. Ingested alcohol is damaging to the body and brain
Thankful it ever played much part in my life.
polar - thx for that. Amazing man - jimmy Carter! He certainly lived a full life. I hope he has an easy passing too.
Jimmy Carter has been on hospice for weeks . The man has survived so many things. My husband says “ watch him get better”. My Dad got “better” in a hospice facility and got kicked out to rehab for 6 weeks. He was miserable . He didn’t belong in rehab . Then he went to SNF on comfort care 2 weeks before he passed. Now my sister who I think the doctor jumped the gun recently about hospice got better . I thought he was jumping the gun , but he’s the doctor. She’s in rehab on palliative care for now . She still has serious medical problems . We will see what happens .
I will have to remember the floating in water trick for eggs. Thanks 😊.
I am kind of one or two coffees a day, but love my cappuccino.
Don’t care for eggs, the stink here, when in Europe or Mexico I eat them, I wonder if it is because in many countries people don’t refrigerate them?
But, I am going to make quiche and crepes today to use eggs, maybe deviled eggs for Easter.