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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / March 2008Study of macular degeneration (in eyes)
A study of macular degeneration (in the eyes): http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=613570 >A study of macular degeneration (in the eyes): > >http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=613570 G'day G'day Robert, Thank you bringing the research to our attention. It matters a lot that we are able to share all current information. Some of us find it. Some interpret it. Some figure out what influence it might have on what we do if anything to ameliorate complications. Put simply, ASD is a group effort and the only argument worth winning is with the disease. So special thanks for starting the ball rolling once more in a positive direction. Best wishes,  SignatureQuentin Grady ^ ^ / New Zealand, >#,#< [ / \ /\ "... and the blind dog was leading." http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/quentin : >A study of macular degeneration (in the eyes): : > : >http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=613570 : > : G'day G'day Robert, : Thank you bringing the research to our attention. It matters a lot : that we are able to share all current information. Some of us find : it. Some interpret it. Some figure out what influence it might have : on what we do if anything to ameliorate complications. : Put simply, ASD is a group effort and the only argument worth winning : is with the disease. So special thanks for starting the ball rolling : once more in a positive direction. : Best wishes, : http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/quentin I emailed it to my retina doctor, with a few comments. If he hasn't already seen it, he will find it interesting. Of course, it may well be old news to those , like him, that always keep on top of things in their profession. Wendy >I emailed it to my retina doctor, with a few comments. If he hasn't >already seen it, he will find it interesting. Of course, it may well be >old news to those , like him, that always keep on top of things in their >profession. > >Wendy Wendy. I think you are GREAT. Let me explain why. Doctors are busy people. My own GP is by my reckoning the best in the shared practice. Others obviously hold the same view so he is very busy. It's a bit of catch 22 situation. The better they are the busier they are so the more they need people like you to feed them articles. OK, some of them will have automated the process somewhat by getting a journal to send them emails listing the latest relevant research. However, nothing is going to quite match the selectivity of a patient who knows what is relevant to them. One of the paradigms held by many people here on ASD is our prognosis is improved by taking responsibility for ourselves and finding ways to keep the medical professionals we deal with interested and up to date with what is relevant to us. Its a team effort. Best wishes and congratulations. SignatureQuentin Grady ^ ^ / New Zealand, >#,#< [ / \ /\ "... and the blind dog was leading." http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/quentin >>A study of macular degeneration (in the eyes): >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >is with the disease. So special thanks for starting the ball rolling >once more in a positive direction. True. When I was thanking people for their contributions here I missed out Robert. Sorry. Yet another one who digs out useful and interesting stuff. >True. > >When I was thanking people for their contributions here I missed out >Robert. Sorry. Yet another one who digs out useful and interesting >stuff. Thanks. I've been reading your posts with interest lately. People often remark that they turn to my posts to read first Whom do I read? Well you are right up there because I find what you have to say relevant and to the point. I chuckled to myself when I saw you chastising yourself for missing Robert from your list thanking people for their contributions. Funny that, isn't it. Only someone who considered it important to thank people and meant it would do that IMHO. Best wishes, SignatureQuentin Grady ^ ^ / New Zealand, >#,#< [ / \ /\ "... and the blind dog was leading." http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/quentin >>True. >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Thanks. I've been reading your posts with interest lately. >People often remark that they turn to my posts to read first And so they should. (Rabbit casserole with celery carrots and onions, broccoli and red wine tonight. Probably in a while I shall walk round the block if it isn't snowing yet. Breakfast was smoked salmon oatcakes toasted sunflower seeds and masses of salad. Later I shall have prawns cashew nuts and crushed chillies with sesame oil and bean sprouts with more salad and probably another oatcake. What have I missed nutritionally? If anyone knows you will) >Whom do I read? > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Only someone who considered it important to thank people and meant it >would do that IMHO. You are most kind. I consider it karma in a way, so many folks here have helped me so much, filling in information that doctors had failed or omitted to give me, and the result is that many many things I didn't even know were related have improved. Strangely certain people don't see this happening although it's pretty much a daily occurrence here in the real newsgroup as opposed to the figment of their imagination that they constantly criticise. If I was more organised I'd do a better job of reposting useful cites and previous posts, I'm working on it OK, I think I lied about the walk, this is watching crap on TV weather >>>True. >>> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >salad and probably another oatcake. What have I missed nutritionally? >If anyone knows you will) G'day G'day, Well that is a pretty amazing meal with a wide variety of foods. It is bound to include most things. I doubt you are missing anything so long as you're not eating this each and every day. It looks like a fabulous starter. If you have other dishes with as many ingredients is would be next to impossible to get a deficiency. Oatcakes are likely to be good choice of grain thanks to their soluble fibre content. The salmon besides providing omega-3 also provide astaxanthin, the pink stuff that helps prevent further deterioration of the beta cells in the pancreas. I'd include orange capsicums (bell peppers) for the eyes, avocados and cranberries in some other dishes. >>Whom do I read? >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >give me, and the result is that many many things I didn't even know >were related have improved. That is one of the big surprises isn't it. People come here with the hope that they might get information that helps them with diabetes. What they find is that when blood glucose is controlled and one takes on effective exercise chances are so many other things that hadn't seemed to be related also improve. [snip] >If I was more organised I'd do a better job of reposting useful cites >and previous posts, I'm working on it Some people are that organized. I have to search with Google just to find my own posts on various subjects. Some I never find. >OK, I think I lied about the walk, this is watching crap on TV weather We've watched some Poirot DVDS. We like the DVDs but the stories are very short. Lots of the BBC productions take some beating. Best wishes, SignatureQuentin Grady ^ ^ / New Zealand, >#,#< [ / \ /\ "... and the blind dog was leading." http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/quentin >>>>True. >>>> [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >fabulous starter. If you have other dishes with as many ingredients >is would be next to impossible to get a deficiency. And that's why I was so fsking annoyed with the Clueless Dietician who basically told me I was not eating the sort of foods I actually was eating. The only difference was that then I was eating toxic levels of carbs, Healthy Wholegrain brown rice, Healthy Wholegrain muesli and Healthy Wholegrain wholemeal bread as well. Which were the things she told me to eat more of . . . . . . in retrospect it becomes impossible to believe they didn't know what was going on, the best spin I can put on their treatment of me was that they knew I had an untreatable progressive disease and were putting off telling me until it became unavoidable. Fortunatly my current bunch of Medical Professionals are far more, well, professional. I caught my GP buying stuff in the veg shop the other day so I was making sure she bought five colours (tongue in cheek) >Oatcakes are likely to be good choice of grain thanks to their soluble >fibre content. The salmon besides providing omega-3 also provide >astaxanthin, the pink stuff that helps prevent further deterioration >of the beta cells in the pancreas. Yup, and the prawns. I can't persuade mother to eat prawns as she's been sick after eating them once or twice. >I'd include orange capsicums (bell peppers) for the eyes, avocados and >cranberries in some other dishes. Yup, had the red yellow and green capsicums yesterday and today: the remnants of the rabbit with said peppers, mushrooms, bacon (puts off the rabbit poisoning I guess) and DIY curry powder made fromturmeric (with black pepper, thank you) coriander cumin and chillies and thyme (I removed the remains of the bay leaves) served over quinoa. Had the avocado the other day (and persuaded mother to eat the other half) I used to drink hordes of cranberry juice <sigh> haven't had the berries while they've been out of season but have just had some more strawberries, will they do? <G> >>>Whom do I read? >>> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >on effective exercise chances are so many other things that hadn't >seemed to be related also improve. Indeed, and one of the weirdest things has been how much easier the exercise is: I can recall at one stage I'd be doing something like cutting the hedge and be so exhausted after ten minutes I'd have to stop for an hour (unlike Chris Malcolm I don't entirely eschew power tools, I used to have a big powerful petrol trimmer which was quite a workout in itself, waving it around at arm's length and over my head while it vibrated - and being so fast and powerful meant there was a massive job of clearing up and shredding the trimmings as it cut so much so fast) in retrospect the BG was bouncing back and forth from high to low so fast my muscles barely had the chance to gulp enough glucose as it passed through "normal") >>If I was more organised I'd do a better job of reposting useful cites >>and previous posts, I'm working on it > >Some people are that organized. I have to search with Google just to >find my own posts on various subjects. Some I never find. I keep a database on my own disk, and copy certain posts into a keepfile. Agent has one exceptional feature in that it will import and export stuff in bog-standard Unix Mailbox ,mbx files, not uncommon except for Micro$oftware which has obviously never heard of standards. >>OK, I think I lied about the walk, this is watching crap on TV weather > >We've watched some Poirot DVDS. We like the DVDs but the stories are >very short. Lots of the BBC productions take some beating. For now. : And that's why I was so fsking annoyed with the Clueless Dietician who : basically told me I was not eating the sort of foods I actually was : eating. The only difference was that then I was eating toxic levels of : carbs, Healthy Wholegrain brown rice, Healthy Wholegrain muesli and : Healthy Wholegrain wholemeal bread as well. Which were the things she : told me to eat more of . . . Trink, you have to realize that these dieticians are trained to believe that al these "healthy Wholegrains" are absolutely essential to a "healthy " life and if they increase your bg,then your MD should prescribe more meds for you. By training they are unable to understad that you can get the same nutrient and fiber by eating low sarch assorted vegetables and not need as much medication that may well have undesireable side effects. It is duned into their heads at dieticians school until it becomes a total reflex. Wendy >: And that's why I was so fsking annoyed with the Clueless Dietician who >: basically told me I was not eating the sort of foods I actually was [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >much medication that may well have undesireable side effects. It is duned >into their heads at dieticians school until it becomes a total reflex. Yes, that's the distinction Chris Malcolm made between people who are trained vs. people who are educated. Wait and see what happens as grains become less profitable and dietary recommendations return to something more physiologically useful . . . (I used to believe the same stuff, though not to the degree of the "macrobiotic diet" where you exist purely on brown rice) |
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