Brexit, for once some facts.

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Sugar is the big problem, and when it's blood suger - wholegrain anything doesn't seem to slow down the conversion of carbs to blood sugar, by very much... I still get heart palpitations, if my blood sugar was low ie if hadn't eaten for about 12 hours.

Black tea, even cheap and nasty leaf tea, is surprisingly palatable (but substantially less so with milk); I keep forgetting to give up milk, but when I do it's pretty easy to get used to.
I switched to a pleasant Sri Lanka tea - which is far better basic quality than most tea. And it is really nice. I wouldn't choose any ordinary supermarket tea that is intended for drinking with milk and sugar.

Wholegrain has the advantages of actually having slightly fewer calories per unit weight. As well as being slightly slower to digest and absorb. Also affects the gut biome. And mine usually has something like a bit of rye added.
 

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I do agree with all the attention paid to diets and micro dieting... And reducing sugar /fat intake is in general obviously beneficial... But... (and playing devil's advocate a bit)
First of all, I love my food and at times of restricted activity through injury/illness I find I enjoy it even more. Bacon sandwiches, curries, chocolate puddings...Sunday dinners, the whole gambit. I don't smoke or drink (OK, occasional medicanal whisky) but eating is one of life's pleasures. When others are on hold I invariably think stuff it... In my mouth. There is a balance.
Secondly and more importantly... How many people as they get older find themselves with heart/circulation or some such issue. Most I, d guess. Then many say to themselves.. Right lose weight and get fit...
To my mind that's already problematic.
To lose weight you must eat less than your body requires, simple really. If you don't your body will not start utilising the reserves its laid down over last few decades. You must be under nourished to produce weight loss.
And then you start putting demands on your body to get fit.
Something must give. You, ve got some illness, you are under nourished, still overweight and then wondering why you can't perform like you did 2 or 3 decades ago. Well you weren't this heavy, you weren't ill and you were eating properly. And you were enjoying your food.
I, m not suggesting what I do is best, far from it. I, m in regular guilt thinking I, ve either eaten too much or wrong stuff, with wife and medically trained daughter saying you should not eat this or that... But I can not bike, train, run or sail with my condition and diet at same time. It doesn't compute.
When inactive I cut back, eat fruit, loads of veg, no butter, cream or puddings and aim at losing some weight. Once active... you get the idea. And stay same weight. And enjoy my food.
I, m firmly in flecc's camp on this. I, d rather enjoy my remaining time than worry about prolonging it by not doing things I love. (that includes eating)
 

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But I can not bike, train, run or sail with my condition and diet at same time. It doesn't compute.
I very much agree with this, it's why I do them separately - a week or two of 5 days restricted (weekends off!) calorie diet, then a week or two of a small smattering of exercise or intense mental actvity designed (badly) to give rise to my actually doing some exercise... which might or might not produce the emotive force necessary. Slow jogging while restricting colorie intake, gave me a weird cold, which wasn't actually a cold. For ebike riding, the way I usually do it (no effort at all), was an easy activity to be enthusiastic about anytime, requiring zero psyching up to engage in. But I've been ebiking wrong and it's broken and I have to fix it, so I'll be fast walking and very very slow jogging later on the way to get my phone screen repaired.
 
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Wow! A whole 127 HGV drivers have applied for visas.

That was another wonderful success brought to you by Johnson/Patel/tories.
The only solution is recruiting ordinary drivers who own estate cars and SUVs, to transport large jerry cans.
 
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Did you see the story of the French one?

Paris serial killer of 80s and 90s was ex-police officer, DNA shows
François Vérove took his own life and mentioned crimes in suicide note after being called in for questioning
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/01/paris-serial-killer-of-80s-and-90s-was-ex-police-officer-dna-shows
Even French serial killers are more sophisticated. As copper, over the years he must have been watching the increasing capability and use of DNA sequencing for solving crimes with dread...
 
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In my case, and I think this is common, the foot issues come about from a combination of mucinous deposits, changes to muscle and tendon mechanical characteristics, changes to ability of tissue to repaiir itself, possible changes to blood characteristics, etc. That is, PF seems to be a consequence of hypothyroidism which, all too often, is autoimmune in origin.

I have seen more in the recent past of research into actual causes - but still no clear-cut explanation..
What's most concerning is that the immune errors compound themselves elsewhere... my damn eyes for example, which is yet another long tale of woe. System wide inflammation means vital clues to things like tumours may be missed, in all the confusion. I had a friend who had a lifetime membership to some private medical care outfit, and he had a whole body CT scan every year to locate possible tumours. I asked if he was worried about the increased risk of diseases due to X-ray radiation (I also kindof assumed that a yearly and through X-ray once a year, was a good way for his private medical company to kill off troublesome pensioners). He died a couple of years ago of cancer, I don't know what type.
 
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What's most concerning is that the immune errors compund themselves elsewhere... my damn eyes for example, which is yet another long take of woe. System wide inflammation means vital clues to things like tumours may be missed in all the confusion.
My hypothyroidism is unexplained - not autoimmune. But partner's is autoimmune. I see both aspects!

There are many eye and sight issues due to hypothyroidism.

Discomfort, poor focussing, impaired colour vision (down to B&W), dryness, ability to cope with bright light (such as oncoming headlamps), 3D-perception, floaters, glaucoma, and on and on. That is without even a glance at Graves' ophthalmopathy. There are a number of articles about the dangers of driving when hypothyroid.

Some of the issues seem to be due to mucinous deposits. Some to pituitary hyperplasia pressing on the optic chiasma. Some to slower brain processing.

Much of the above is totally ignored by the medical establishment.
 

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Even French serial killers are more sophisticated. As copper, over the years he must have been watching the increasing capability and use of DNA sequencing for solving crimes with dread...
I am actually fairly convinced that some police have used increasingly sophisticated DNA technology as a threat. And I can understand why.
 

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My hypothyroidism is unexplained - not autoimmune. But partner's is autoimmune. I see both aspects!

There are many eye and sight issues due to hypothyroidism.

Discomfort, poor focussing, impaired colour vision (down to B&W), dryness, ability to cope with bright light (such as oncoming headlamps), 3D-perception, floaters, glaucoma, and on and on. That is without even a glance at Graves' ophthalmopathy. There are a number of articles about the dangers of driving when hypothyroid.

Some of the issues seem to be due to mucinous deposits. Some to pituitary hyperplasia pressing on the optic chiasma. Some to slower brain processing.

Much of the above is totally ignored by the medical establishment.
I've got CSR:


...which is yet another medical mystery. Nobody knows what causes it, can't really be treated and even if you manage to get rid of it - like Arnie, he comes back! But unlike Arnie, it doesn't get progressively nicer when it does. They offered me a green laser treatment (especially at my local hospital's optical malady department - but the odds look very bad for that wavelength (I hear "They gave me laser treatment and it didn't go well! Far too often in the waiting room), and the only yellow laser (far less damaging to tissues) for the same job is too expensive for my local hospital and the one which does have it, is unbelievably resistant to serving anyone who isn't in their local area. So I use Macushield Gold and eat as much spinach as I can cope with. Maybe it'll make me look like Popeye. And jogging helped get rid of it last time, nobody knows why jogging also staves off dementia.
 
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I've got CSR:


...which is yet another medical mystery. Nobody knows what causes it, can't really be treated and even if you manage to get rid of it - like Arnie, he comes back! But unlike Arnie, it doesn't get progressively nicer when it does. They offered me a green laser treatment (especially at my local hospital's optical malady department - but the odds look very bad for that wavelength (I hear "They gave me laser treatment and it didn't go well! Far too often in the waiting room), and the only yellow laser (far less damaging to tissues) for the same job is too expensive for my local hospital and the one which does have it, is unbelievably resistant to serving anyone who isn't in their local area. So I use Macushield Gold and eat as much spinach as I can cope with. Maybe it'll make me look like Popeye. And jogging helped get rid of it last time, nobody knows why jogging also staves off dementia.
And the obvious question, from my point of view, is asked here:

Can Hypothyroidism Cause Acute Central Serous Chorioretinopathy?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31646925/

With the conclusion Hence, hypothyroidism might be associated with CSC.

A few more possibly interesting papers:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Central+serous+chorioretinopathy+thyroid&filter=hum_ani.humans&sort=date
 
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Even French serial killers are more sophisticated. As copper, over the years he must have been watching the increasing capability and use of DNA sequencing for solving crimes with dread...
I do really think Taliban have it right over heinous crimes. Once proven guilty victims family should decide sentence... Wayne Couzens should face capital punishment. Family in this case would merely decide method. Burning at stake?(this is not said in jest)

On the tanker driver shortage. Can we really be 100,000 short. Can't see it myself. We are short but 100k???
https://fullfact.org/economy/fuel-shortage-hgv-drivers/

Seems nobody knows? Which is nearly as scary..
To be fair we haven't struggled getting fuel at all??? Never sat in a queu or seen one on road side. Saw some bloke in a hire van filling 25 litre Jerry cans up.. He was telling us all it was for "plant equipment"...??
 
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And the obvious question, from my point of view, is asked here:

Can Hypothyroidism Cause Acute Central Serous Chorioretinopathy?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31646925/

With the conclusion Hence, hypothyroidism might be associated with CSC.

A few more possibly interesting papers:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Central+serous+chorioretinopathy+thyroid&filter=hum_ani.humans&sort=date

Cor! That's interesting! Thank you. I'll print some of those out and present them to the hillbilly Opthamologists at my small provincial eye disorders unit - they are clueless as to it's cause and won't speculate (Doctors never seem to speculate unless there's a specific treatment for something specific, approved by NICE). Accused me of taking steroids, said jacked up bodybuilders get it (I was just fat), but also mentioned that very stressed people get it too. Hmmm... And it went away after a year of (slow shuffling masquerading as) jogging, plus the consumption of fieldfulls of spinach. Exercise in general does get the entire endochrine system working properly, I really must do more somehow and soon!
 
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I do really think Taliban have it right over heinous crimes. Once proven guilty victims family should decide sentence... Wayne Couzens should face capital punishment. Family in this case would merely decide method. Burning at stake?(this is not said in jest)

On the tanker driver shortage. Can we really be 100,000 short. Can't see it myself. We are short but 100k???
https://fullfact.org/economy/fuel-shortage-hgv-drivers/

Seems nobody knows? Which is nearly as scary..
I read somewhere that many HGV drivers (not necessarily Taliban) have defected to online delivery companies, where the hours and pay are better - I'll see if I can find the article.
 
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To be fair we haven't struggled getting fuel at all??? Never sat in a queu or seen one on road side.
Went to supermarket again ths morning and risked going the way with the three fuel stations.

Mistake.

Ist and 2nd no problem. 3rd had a queue in the other direction over two miles long, containing trapped buses and refuse trucks since it's a narrow road with continuous traffic in the opposite direction. One idiot pulled out to try to pass them all so blocked our direction for a while.

Returned the country way with no fuel stations and little traffic.
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Went to supermarket again ths morning and risked going the way with the three fuel stations.

Mistake.

Ist and 2nd no problem. 3rd had a queue in the other direction over two miles long, containing trapped buses and refuse trucks since it's a narrow road with continuous traffic in the opposite direction. One idiot pulled out to try to pass them all so blocked our direction for a while.

Returned the country way with no fuel stations and little traffic.
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There is a marked difference in the situation between urban and rural areas.
Is this due to population density, or the density of the population?
 
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There is a marked difference in the situation between urban and rural areas.
Is this due to population density, or the density of the population?
According to reports London and South East have suffered worse....??? How come??? Tanker drivers picking on southerners???
Honestly, I have not seen a queu... A couple of garages with closed pumps and 2 with sold out signs... To be fair tho I always avoid any kind of rush hour traffic... Travel in working hours or late night/very early morning..
 
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