Good morning! 38 ˚F heading to 48 ˚F, cloudy cool North wind at 7-9 mph.
Happy New Year!
Happy Birthday Roy!
Drew, my advise to you to make your resolution as quickly and as painless as possible (if you qualify) -
Intermittent Fasting Diet| Prolon FMD
Went to a new years eve neighborhood party down the street and met some more neighbors. The people out here in Elderland are very interesting and from all over the U.S.
Met one neighbor who had a goat farm in the hill country, had acreage a tractor, we compared notes on the advantage of the big "move" and they were exactly alike.
Met another neighbor (from right outside Elderland - he still can't qualify for admittance here ) who plans on moving here in 10 years but is still working on 3d printers. Apparently now they can use metal powder and lasers to make metal objects and parts. I wonder if they will ever change the name from a printer to a manufacturing unit.
Lot's to drink - non-alcohol, at the party and we were home by 10:45. A good way to start the new year.
Meanwhile back in the country (my VFD phone pager went off yesterday evening) the VFD was called to prepare a landing zone for a heart attack. It was down the street from one of my few aunts I have left so I text (or is it texted) her and she verified the transport. Thank goodness it was not her but someone we both know and he was in stable condition last night the last I heard.
Starting 8th year on plant based diet so officially it is no longer a diet, it's a lifestyle. In all my blood test there was never a protein deficiency, so why add the fat and cholesterol?
New info - no more fasting required for Cholesterol test. (but check with your Dr. if he still does it the old way) - ". . .Perhaps more important, large-scale analyses have shown that non-fasting lipids don’t weaken the connection between cholesterol levels and harmful events like heart attack and stroke. In fact, post-meal measures are thought to strengthen the ability of lipid levels to predict cardiovascular risk. This observation may stem from the fact that most people eat several meals plus snacks during the day. That means we spend most of our time in a “fed” state, not a fasting state.
So lipid levels after eating may best reflect our normal physiology." Farewell to the fasting cholesterol test? - Harvard Health Blog - Harvard Health Publishing