My wife's mom has dangerously high blood pressure, and she is fat/obese with depression and tons of health problems (some from birth, some not), but she also constantly eats things like white-flour bread, potato chips (that have sugar in them), pizza etc. She basically doesn't eat vegetables aside from potatoes, never eats fruit, she refuses to try stuff like the pasta we eat (made from corn or whole-wheat flour) instead of white-flour pasta. She claims white flour "tastes the best" and she thinks that we've stopped eating it because we don't like the taste, no matter how many times we tell her it's for our health. On that note, there's not many chips you can buy without sugar, but I eat chips made out of different vegetables (beets, carrots, potatoes, parsnips) for example and if I weren't so lazy I'd try making my own at home (I have an awesome french fry recipe btw).
She is REALLY REALLY mean all the time, but especially in the mornings, gets huge cravings for chips/sugary stuff basically every day (especially in the evenings), and then she's really tired basically anytime after three in the afternoon. She has sleeping problems and also takes at least one nap a day (btw white flour/sugar affects sleep too, depending on the person). The doctor told her over a year ago that her blood pressure is so high that even just a headache could be the sign of a stroke or heart attack, and she's already had two strokes in her life apparently. Despite this she skips taking her blood pressure medicine, doesn't exercise, refuses to change her diet, lies to doctors and/or simply doesn't go to the doctor when she needs to. Then she talks about "thank god I never started smoking!" as if smoking is any worse, and she claims that being fat is "just in the family".
Being fat isn't in the family. Eating habits and exercise habits, things you teach your children, DO run in the family. Her mom is diabetic, still eats candy every day, is heavily depressed and never exercises past the little she needs to for daily life.
My wife's cousin, who's only 25 years old, recently had a brain cancer surgery. Why'd she get brain cancer? She constantly drinks aspartame-filled soda, she won't listen to anyone telling her that it's poison, and literally the first thing she asked for after she woke up from the tumour surgery was for a diet (aspartame) soda : l
I mean, part of me thinks "fine, let them suffer and die if they're going to be like that". But I know it's only all about education in the long run. If you learn from a young age how to not be so stubborn and to re-examine things based on new evidence... If they only imposed a big tax on all items with added sugar (just like tobacco has a big tax), and then sent that tax money towards making dentists cheaper...
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Date: 2015-09-13 09:07 pm (UTC)She is REALLY REALLY mean all the time, but especially in the mornings, gets huge cravings for chips/sugary stuff basically every day (especially in the evenings), and then she's really tired basically anytime after three in the afternoon. She has sleeping problems and also takes at least one nap a day (btw white flour/sugar affects sleep too, depending on the person). The doctor told her over a year ago that her blood pressure is so high that even just a headache could be the sign of a stroke or heart attack, and she's already had two strokes in her life apparently. Despite this she skips taking her blood pressure medicine, doesn't exercise, refuses to change her diet, lies to doctors and/or simply doesn't go to the doctor when she needs to. Then she talks about "thank god I never started smoking!" as if smoking is any worse, and she claims that being fat is "just in the family".
Being fat isn't in the family. Eating habits and exercise habits, things you teach your children, DO run in the family. Her mom is diabetic, still eats candy every day, is heavily depressed and never exercises past the little she needs to for daily life.
My wife's cousin, who's only 25 years old, recently had a brain cancer surgery. Why'd she get brain cancer? She constantly drinks aspartame-filled soda, she won't listen to anyone telling her that it's poison, and literally the first thing she asked for after she woke up from the tumour surgery was for a diet (aspartame) soda : l
I mean, part of me thinks "fine, let them suffer and die if they're going to be like that". But I know it's only all about education in the long run. If you learn from a young age how to not be so stubborn and to re-examine things based on new evidence... If they only imposed a big tax on all items with added sugar (just like tobacco has a big tax), and then sent that tax money towards making dentists cheaper...