Guest guest Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 tobacco, alcohol has never been a problem for me, and although I love vegetables and all of the other things considered healthy, I picked up drinking coffee heavily when I got married and made it for my husband a lot throughout the day. I also picked up eating fast foods and sweets. Sweets I had a problem with anyway. I have cut back drastically but working on cutting out completely especially the processed foods and sugar. My husband eats lots of the fried things, cheese, peanuts, steak, shrimp chocolates, ice-cream, rich foods, although he will eat salmon too, very little salad. But he is as healthy as an ox. I sometimes think healthy diets depends on the individually since this works for him. I am constantly making many dishes or 2 dinners with my arthritic hands just so we both can have the things we like. I sometimes give in but don't care for fried foods or shrimp, not much red meat either. Deli meats I eat way too much of, however. Joy: And Joy, I think your daughter is right about the no meat thing if you can do it every now and then should be helpful as well. peace, Ebony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 I agree that foods affect people differently and RA is affected by stress,weather etc. so it makes it hard to figgure out if a certain food is affecting it. In my case, i can guarantee a flare-up by a couple of deep-fried meals... i travelled to visit my daughter in college...ate at mcdonalds for lunch and then a fried seafood buffett for dinner...i was down for a week, hitting the prednisone...i should have known better...but forbidden fruit you know...frank Ebony <stillbreathing29@...> wrote: tobacco, alcohol has never been a problem for me, and although I love vegetables and all of the other things considered healthy, I picked up drinking coffee heavily when I got married and made it for my husband a lot throughout the day. I also picked up eating fast foods and sweets. Sweets I had a problem with anyway. I have cut back drastically but working on cutting out completely especially the processed foods and sugar. My husband eats lots of the fried things, cheese, peanuts, steak, shrimp chocolates, ice-cream, rich foods, although he will eat salmon too, very little salad. But he is as healthy as an ox. I sometimes think healthy diets depends on the individually since this works for him. I am constantly making many dishes or 2 dinners with my arthritic hands just so we both can have the things we like. I sometimes give in but don't care for fried foods or shrimp, not much red meat either. Deli meats I eat way too much of, however. Joy: And Joy, I think your daughter is right about the no meat thing if you can do it every now and then should be helpful as well. peace, Ebony --------------------------------- Check out the all-new beta - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 Just a final note on ssi/ssd...the determination guidlines are pretty rigid....they assume your condition is the same day-to-day as it is in most cases like back problems and other diseases...we all know that thats not the case with RA...theres good,bad, and so-so days....i found that they didnt want to hear ambigous answers like " well sometimes, on a good day/bad day etc...they want absolutes...so give them what they want....the bad day scenario....remember, they are only concerned with your ability to gainfully work.. and we all know that work is impossible on bad days,and most employers wouldnt tolerate an employee that had to take a couple of days or a week off periodicaly. frank Ebony <stillbreathing29@...> wrote: tobacco, alcohol has never been a problem for me, and although I love vegetables and all of the other things considered healthy, I picked up drinking coffee heavily when I got married and made it for my husband a lot throughout the day. I also picked up eating fast foods and sweets. Sweets I had a problem with anyway. I have cut back drastically but working on cutting out completely especially the processed foods and sugar. My husband eats lots of the fried things, cheese, peanuts, steak, shrimp chocolates, ice-cream, rich foods, although he will eat salmon too, very little salad. But he is as healthy as an ox. I sometimes think healthy diets depends on the individually since this works for him. I am constantly making many dishes or 2 dinners with my arthritic hands just so we both can have the things we like. I sometimes give in but don't care for fried foods or shrimp, not much red meat either. Deli meats I eat way too much of, however. Joy: And Joy, I think your daughter is right about the no meat thing if you can do it every now and then should be helpful as well. peace, Ebony --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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