Comments on: Eat like Grandma, live longer http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/eat-like-grandma-live-longer.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:22:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: linda http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/eat-like-grandma-live-longer.html/comment-page-1#comment-633670 linda Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:25:22 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/eat-like-grandma-live-longer.html#comment-633670 Grandma diet...means common sense...my grandma used to say, "eat like a cat...they only eat just enough for energy." People get fat due to focusing on the bad whatever. So every night when you go to bed think about things you really enjoy...like a fresh cup of coffee in the morning...sheets hung in the sunshine...morning dew on the garden...this prepares your body for a RESTFUL sleep which is required to be thin and healthy. Mulling over bad thoughts tells your body you're unhappy...hence cortisol pumps us to produce fat cells that need filling tomorrow morning so you can take all the punches tomorrow will bring (your sure of will happen). Attitude is everything, and linked directly to our weight, and overall health. I myself didn't realize this until I got fat...and one day it hit me...attitude is everything. My stress was feeding the very problem I was stressing over...it wasn't helping me at all....or fixing the problem. And, it created more problems for me. So...I made a concerted effort to think of things I really like, love, enjoy, and from that day forward my life changed...and my weight...and my overall health....which led to a helluva lot better life for me and for everyone else too! Because when we become fat and miserable and make no effort to improve our situation...we reflect what we want out of life...which tells everyone else we want nothing. And that makes people who doe want more out of life angry. It makes others feel bad....and most people don't know how to interpret these feelings...so they get insulting as a general rule. So...you see...our emotions are directly linked to our weight and overall health. You have to make a choice....no one else can do this for you....are you going to live? Or more importantly, how are you going to live? No diet in the world can help you if you're so unhappy, so empty you don't want to live and bounce and stretch to the sun. Might as well find the TV clicker and see who's got a life besides you, and be more miserable. Know what I noticed? Movie stars don't care who laughs at their antics.....so they live and bounce and stretch to the stars. They call it good advertising. And when they fall down, they get up laughing at themselves...in fact...they usually make a new show you can watch about it....while you sit there eating wanting a life like that. Or any life that's different from yours. Hmmmm...now that's something to think about isn't it? Happiness isn't expensive or tough to come by...you simply have to allow it. And remember...if someone is unpleasant to you tomorrow...just remember you're not in their shoes. You're not scared of life anymore. Grandma diet…means common sense…my grandma used to say, “eat like a cat…they only eat just enough for energy.”

People get fat due to focusing on the bad whatever. So every night when you go to bed think about things you really enjoy…like a fresh cup of coffee in the morning…sheets hung in the sunshine…morning dew on the garden…this prepares your body for a RESTFUL sleep which is required to be thin and healthy. Mulling over bad thoughts tells your body you’re unhappy…hence cortisol pumps us to produce fat cells that need filling tomorrow morning so you can take all the punches tomorrow will bring (your sure of will happen).

Attitude is everything, and linked directly to our weight, and overall health. I myself didn’t realize this until I got fat…and one day it hit me…attitude is everything. My stress was feeding the very problem I was stressing over…it wasn’t helping me at all….or fixing the problem. And, it created more problems for me.

So…I made a concerted effort to think of things I really like, love, enjoy, and from that day forward my life changed…and my weight…and my overall health….which led to a helluva lot better life for me and for everyone else too!

Because when we become fat and miserable and make no effort to improve our situation…we reflect what we want out of life…which tells everyone else we want nothing. And that makes people who doe want more out of life angry. It makes others feel bad….and most people don’t know how to interpret these feelings…so they get insulting as a general rule.

So…you see…our emotions are directly linked to our weight and overall health. You have to make a choice….no one else can do this for you….are you going to live? Or more importantly, how are you going to live? No diet in the world can help you if you’re so unhappy, so empty you don’t want to live and bounce and stretch to the sun. Might as well find the TV clicker and see who’s got a life besides you, and be more miserable.

Know what I noticed? Movie stars don’t care who laughs at their antics…..so they live and bounce and stretch to the stars. They call it good advertising. And when they fall down, they get up laughing at themselves…in fact…they usually make a new show you can watch about it….while you sit there eating wanting a life like that. Or any life that’s different from yours.

Hmmmm…now that’s something to think about isn’t it? Happiness isn’t expensive or tough to come by…you simply have to allow it. And remember…if someone is unpleasant to you tomorrow…just remember you’re not in their shoes. You’re not scared of life anymore.

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/eat-like-grandma-live-longer.html/comment-page-1#comment-68824 David Bradley Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:00:22 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/eat-like-grandma-live-longer.html#comment-68824 I agree entirely, the quantity of calorie consumption is terrifying, it's bad in N Amer, but getting bad in Europe too, I believe the shift to processed meat (from a fishy diet) in Japan has led to an increase in average height in the youngsters but also increased risk of obesity and all that brings. Yes, the issue about grandma's diet not necessarily being so great is what I was trying to get at and the fact that the health of grandparents and their diet seems to skip a generation in terms of its effects means part of the current CV disease problems could be partly a knock-on effect. I agree entirely, the quantity of calorie consumption is terrifying, it’s bad in N Amer, but getting bad in Europe too, I believe the shift to processed meat (from a fishy diet) in Japan has led to an increase in average height in the youngsters but also increased risk of obesity and all that brings. Yes, the issue about grandma’s diet not necessarily being so great is what I was trying to get at and the fact that the health of grandparents and their diet seems to skip a generation in terms of its effects means part of the current CV disease problems could be partly a knock-on effect.

]]> By: DV82XL http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/eat-like-grandma-live-longer.html/comment-page-1#comment-68671 DV82XL Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:17:03 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/eat-like-grandma-live-longer.html#comment-68671 Good rules I'm sure, however they seem to leave out the fact that in the West we eat too damned much. Here in North America we are committing slow suicide with our knives and forks. That being said MY great-great-grandmother's diet was probably lacking in many essential nutrients given where she grew up and lived, substance farming in rural Quebec. So I would change the first rule to: "Eat less than you think you need" Good rules I’m sure, however they seem to leave out the fact that in the West we eat too damned much. Here in North America we are committing slow suicide with our knives and forks.

That being said MY great-great-grandmother’s diet was probably lacking in many essential nutrients given where she grew up and lived, substance farming in rural Quebec.

So I would change the first rule to: “Eat less than you think you need”

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