Do you think about your health while you decide what to eat?

My health problems have never come from eating either. Now I´m on a diet due to chemo, but as I love to cook, I have managed to make good dishes with the ingredients I can eat.

Fortunatly I´m a good cook, so I have changed some types of food for others that are on the list. You can use any spicey thing, but I change flavours by using some fruits such as apples.

I was reading about the foods people are not suppose to eat while on chemo. I was amazed at how many there are. I also looked at some recipes. There are a bunch. I guess a person would just have to get used to them. I have never been there but if I did have to do chemo I will be a little prepared.

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I´ll check it. I had never heard of it before. Live to learn!

The problem is that, as we grow older, the list of the forbidden food grows. Fortunatly there are pills that can help us cope with some of our troubles. I have a friend with diabetes that is reasonable all week, but once a week he comes for tea with his wife and I must have some of my orange-carrot jam for him. I´m thinking of tricking him by makin a batch with Splenda

I can't avoid to get stressed, I've got work, studies and all. So that means, I'm prone to food cravings!

The craving part has more to do with stress, from what I have learned. Try to lead a simpler life although I know it´s not easy now. I don´t think that icecream is as fattening as fries. I love fries, but I don´t eat them more than twice a year.

I also have an appointment on the 7th. I will find out then if the temoxefen is working or not. I think it is doing something because the pain that I had been having (in the area where she said the biggest tumor was) is no longer there. I also started doing acupuncture so I don't know if that is what is making the change or the pill. Either way, as long as it helps that is all I care.

Hi Deb, I´m about to have my 6th chemo on the second week of November. The lymphoma has responded well to chemo and it has shrunk, but it´s not the kind that you beat. It´s a slow grower though so probably chemo (that will go on spaced during the next years)will help calm it. I have to eat healthy food while my defenses are low and I´m on chemo. But I´m plning on a splurge as soon as I can. Not everyday, but once. I´m tired of eating healthy. On Nov 7th, I have an appointment with the doctor and I´ll have more clues about the prognosis. I´m beating this cancer one day at a time. So I´m planning on vacations as soon as the doctor lets me. Meanwhile I´ve been busy doing gardening to get organic veggies for free. A big HUG

I agree with you that much is said about food that noone really knows if there´s a scientific idea behind it. I remember years ago when butter was banned and you only had to have margerine. But later it seemed that margerine was worse because the fats that made it were not the best. I started to use more oil then, but used butter on certain foods that asked for it.

I imagine that life would be very dull if we didn´t indulge in things we like once in a while, even if they are unhealthy. I don´t think you are hard-hearded, I think you are normal.

Hi Marg, i agreed with you that once in a while we need to indulge in the things that we like, to add colors to our life. But, of course there need to have limit over it....

I don´t understand how can you do sports and yet have a low carb diet. Our body needs carbohidrates for energy. If it doesn´t get it the good way, our body will find another that will make our liver work full time. A reasonable amount of carbs will not make any problems to your cholesterol levels..

I don´t even think of junk food like McDonalds food when I write a post. I shouldn´t say this, but I find that food absolutly inedible. Normal homemade food has the right amount of carbs we need.

The colesterol problems that I talked was because of the junk food like McDonalds food. And when I say low carbs I don't mean light foods, bu I try to avoid foods that have a huge amount of carbs that will not only replace the energy, but the belly too. :)

Fortunatly in my country veggies and fruits in season are not expensive at all. In this moment we have pears and apples, imported yet cheap bananas and our own oranges. In a couple more months we will hstart with the first fruit of the warm season.

I eat balanced meals because it´s in my brain´s hard disk. But I´m not thinking about health all the time. I think that homemade food that has proteins, carbs, veggies and fruits are good meals antwhere. I don´t usually eat those chips full of fat, mainly because I cannot afford them. With the price of one of those nice cans of chip I can make a whole meal. I forget moderation when I am invited out (there I order french fries for example) and I eat all the chocolate I receive as a gift, although I never buy chocolate because I know I´m an addict.

I know what you mean! is good to have friends like that!

I am sure that homemade food is usually healthier than food you eat outside. Even when you make french fries, you know what kind of oil you are using and you don´t use the same for months. I don´t even think of health when I go to a restaurant either, but I usually go to good restaurants where my friends invite me to repay good food I make at my home for them.

I wasn´t thinking of being sick. When we are ill, we don´t want to eat anything. I was thinking that many people here talk about food as if they only think on it being healthy. I think that takes out a lot of the pleasure of eating. We must not eat only junk food, but a little something once in a while keeps our mind healthy

I eat balanced meals because it´s in my brain´s hard disk. But I´m not thinking about health all the time. I think that homemade food that has proteins, carbs, veggies and fruits are good meals antwhere. I don´t usually eat those chips full of fat, mainly because I cannot afford them. With the price of one of those nice cans of chip I can make a whole meal.

I make deals with my body. I don´t attack it too much, but I will not stress myself if I eat something not too healthy that I love. A couple of days ago someone told me that crabs had lots of cholesterol. i´m willing to have my cholesterol levels rise if someome offers me a lot of craf with a nice sauce on the side

Fortunatly I´m not much for sweets. But I do like a nice well seasoned dish. I don´t eat lot of food, but I like well prepared food and placed nicely in the plate.

I imagine you are young. I was like that until I reached my 40th birthday.

Umm ... err ... so ... what happen when we reached 40?

As we grow older, the amount of unheathy food we eat diminishes. But fortunatly our need for it is also less as there are some foods that don´t agree with our stomach.

I eat balanced meals because it´s in my brain´s hard disk. But I must confess that I´m not thinking about health all the time. I think that homemade food that has proteins, carbs, veggies and fruits are good meals. I don´t usually eat those chips full of fat, mainly because I cannot afford them. With the price of one of those nice cans of chip I can make a whole meal. But I indulge eating some at a party I think that when you have had a bad experience with some food, your body tells you to beware.

I could not eat something I truly dislike. But fortunatly there are not so many foods in that category. Nevertheless, I tend to buy the food I like more but I´m not fond of snacks.

I agree with you. I will not eat something I don´t like except when I´m sick. Even now that I must only eat some kind of food, I have tried to make nice taste foods with the ingredients I can use.

I confess that when I go to a good meat restaurant, I prefer french fries than the healthier rice or mashed potatoes on the side. But as I don´t go out everyday, I think I can indulge just for once

I talked by phone about food to a vegetarian friend who told me she was thinking on following a strickter diet. I couldn´t posibly do it, although I don´t eat many things that I used to, when I was young.