General Chat

Yvonne... You gave me such a laugh...and I'm with you all the way! Unfortunately for me, though, all my lot keeled over at an early age .... every one of 'em smokers and lard eaters! And I do get a frisson of fear every time I light another cigarette! And I deffo drink more than the recommended amount of red wine per day. Still...whatever we do, the fact is we will still die at some point..so can I join you in the last dance......? In the words of the DJ at a BBQ I went to yesterday.. 'Keep shaking what your Momma gave you.....!' Dee x

Carol, Jeanette & Yvonne I'm with you lol. I smoke and drink and like me bacon fried:)) My gran cooked everything in lard for about 3 hours and lived to 95. I've known smokers and drinkers who have lived to long healthy ages and died peacefully in their sleep and fit young healthy living people who have died horrible deaths with cancer. I believe your time comes when it comes:)

I think the older folk knew how to eat better. Meat and two vedge and dessert. We had no snacks when I was a kid none available. Try to follow same. I feel better it I don't eat too much of the wrong food. Have lost weight, one and half stone in about two years ( I get hungry) I feel better now. But winters coming (will I put on like last year). Kids were thinner once when school meals were based on trad style, then they introduced chips etc. If they kept to same they would get used to it wouldn't they. Were kids kept happy with little thought of their health. Rosemary.

As for myself.. well I want to die on a dance floor.. p****d to the eyeballs with a fag in my mouth. At least Ill die happy not miserable, worrying about what if this is full of this or that, do I look thin enough for my coffin. Oh no! when I die I wont even notice cos Ill be too busy looking good. Yvonne

What a load of rubbish! my mum is 81, still smokes, eats the way she was brought up, ie cooking in lard, doesnt use low fat spreads or that rubbish, and is still working and has no arthritis or any heart complaint. she has no illnessess whatsover. When she went the nurse about her cholestral she told the nurse straight. Im not changing nothing, at first it was slightly high and still not cutting anything out, the next time she went it was normal without using low this and that. So its all a load of rubbish. Regards Yvonne

Jeanette!!tut tut!!lol

Hi Roxanne I've just had a fry up and now I'm having a fag. I may have a tipple or two later on. So if I'm not here tomorrow you know why! lol Jeanette x

Harry!!!lol very smug,lol i bet you do too!!! x

Dear Marj, I do all those things, but my halo gives me bad headaches. what am I to do? happy days.

Rosemary, true!!excercise is a great way of keeping fit and healthy!! Roxanne xx

I don't drink or smoke, eat the right spreads, trying to cut out hydrogenated by cooking own cakes where possible. Just had blood test today for chlorestral and potassium (have high b.p.). Last reading 6.1 and 3.8. Husband not so careful at present (heart attack 13 years ago) dosen't take drugs any more for this, has chlor. of 5.5 takes drug for this because of heart. He does walk a lot my reading was 5.8 when I walked to school with sons. I think this is probably one of the main causes of these things. No exercise. Rosemary.

Bryan, Very true, I dont smoke but do enjoy a nice glass of wine in the evening!!

the best advice i can give is. .....everything in moderation. bryan.

and die of bordom...oh no Auntie Roxanne did I spell that right....not the brightest of BC's kids

........and live to a ripe old age, well Im not convinced but it would probably seem like it!!!lol