Stealth Health - for Siggy!
POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Thursday, September 19, 2024 18:05
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Well, a lot of ppl do things that aren't enjoyable. My mom was a relentless worker. When she wasn't working (as a nurse) she was cooking, cleaning, darning socks (yep! "back in the day" people mended socks!), sewing, knitting or crocheting.
She roped us into housework and cooking early!!! I have to say, cooking, cleaning, and nutrition and self-care "stuck".
Dad was also a relentless worker ... not as constant as mom, but HIS "spare time" work was household budgeting (he was an accountant by training) home maintenance, yardwork, and gardening. HE roped us into lawn-mowing/leaf raking/ snow-shoveling early! And each of us had a small piece of garden where we could plant what we wanted.
So, from him, saving money, yardwork and gardening "stuck".
So I would say, if you have kids get them started early.
I try that with daughter- she helps me with yardwork and gardening, and in return we plant some of what she likes... zucchini, whatever flowers interest her, cucumbers etc.
In YOUR case, SIX, you have many talents too! So if you can find someone whose avocation is gardening, maybe you can swap efforts.
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Yardwork and gardening is, for me, therapeutic. Kind of like doing dishes, but better exercise. (Unless its too hot. But then, I should make an effort to get out earlier.) I like seeing order emerge from a mess, being outdoors and getting my heart pumping. I'm really looking forward to being healthy again ... funny thing is, the chemo seems to have dialed my "chronic pain syndrome" back quite a bit, and when I'm done with the very active part of treatment, if it comes back I will definitely pursue with my rheumatologist, I think there's lessons to be learned there, Pain was really limiting me before I was dx'd... anyway, looking forward to getting out there again!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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I have to say, I think I got the dog's diet nailed.
She did well on her dry food, except the starches stuck to her teeth and gave her such a bad case of gingivitis she had to have too many teeth extracted.
So I talked with my dog-walking friends, and the lady advocated a "raw food" diet which supports better dental health. There is a website that has calculated recipes for dogs that meet AAFCO requirements, so using their recipes as a template I fiddled around with ingredients until I found the recipes that give our dog her "zip" back:
1 lb ground 90% meat (beef, turkey, pork or chicken)
3 oz liver (beef, chicken, turkey, whatever)
3 oz heart (beef, chicken, turkey, whatever. for taurine, manganese)
3 oz organ meat (right now I have beef kidney but it could be chicken gizzards or lamb lung or what-have-you)
1/2 crushed caplet Super B complex (seems to need extra B vitamins)
to each dish of food I add about 1T steamed veggies (whatever we have goign that day)
1/8 t calcium powder (she's not much of a bone-chewer but she still needs her calcium)
1T broth
So she's been zipping around on this for a while, acting all happy and I'm hopeful this will be THE answer for her (the Super B seems to be a necessity).
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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My dad once we moved out of the city when I was a kid, put in veg gardens in each of the other two houses we lived in. I miss that.
I try to eat as properly as I can and I think I succeed for the most part.
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Cancers and illness rising in the USA, quality of your food, dietary habits,
the British and Australians and Polish and German and other Europeans getting sicker, the USA some of the worst Covid numbers...take your booster shots! eat those food chemials...some of these school shooters were not on meds, the frogs didn't go gay that's a conspiracy
fertility rates drop, a health nation suddenly among the Earth's unhealthiest nations
and people wonder why people moved away from cities and why Mike Adams the Health Ranger got so successful
'There is no epidemic of chronic disease in America.'
https://x.com/JunkScience/status/1836539764759036278#m
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