[Devil Doc]

I dislike the urologist. Something about a grown man handling my junk is incredibly horrifying.

You prefer a woman urologist? Not me. If I'm going to talk about my plumbing, I'd prefer a man. Besides, if it were a woman, I might like it and that would be more embarrassing.

Doc

[Nordkapp]

You prefer a woman urologist? Not me. If I'm going to talk about my plumbing, I'd prefer a man. Besides, if it were a woman, I might like it and that would be more embarrassing.

Doc

yes, very good point.

[Guy 13]

You prefer a woman urologist? Not me. If I'm going to talk about my plumbing, I'd prefer a man. Besides, if it were a woman, I might like it and that would be more embarrassing.

Doc

Hi Doc,
I would also be embarrassed especially if the urologist is a Vietnamese woman. 

Guy 13

[Guy 13]

Vietnamese woman really raise my...... spirit ! 

[FullRangeMan]

Good luck on your surgery.
I thought even he was Nordic indeed.

[Guy 13]

Hi there,
Yes, I've survived to my hernia operation.
It was a very, very long day.
Got up at 5am, got to the hospital at 7.15am with an empty belly
by the time I went thru all the pre-admission tests and was laying flat
on the operation table, it was noon.
Someone in the operation room told me that I look like Putin the Russia leader,
that's almost like an insult to me,
I did prefer when they tell me that I look like a Vietnamese. 
I woke up around quarter to two and the first thing I saw
was on the ceiling a frame with blue back ground and some white couds,
I thought I had pass away and I was in heaven.
I was very comfortable and hot, but not sweating.
I've noticed that they had an hot air heater with a 3'' pipe stuck under my bedsheets.
(My past experience with the freezing to death in the wakeroom was horrible,
but not this time.)
Anyway, after about two hours, they move me from heaven to my room.
The pain was very tolérable, no real annoyance.
My only problem, is that I was hungry, did not eat anything for almost 18 hours,
my last meal was at 6pm the night before,
so they gave me a little cup of apple jam, a small glass of cranberry juice and four small,
read microscopic cookies, a snack typical from many hospitals.
Anyway, they gave me my discharge (?) I got out of the hospital at 9pm and got home at 9.30pm
and had a half decent meal around then 10pm
then jumped in my bed around 10pm and slept nonstop until 5am this morning.
This morning I still have some pain, but not enough to complain, but enough to mentionned it.
I have to go back for a check up next Monday.
Sooooo.... That's my hernia adventure, not a bad experience,
but an experience that I hope I won't have to do again.

Guy 13   

[Guy 13]

Up date:
Saturday morning, three days after my hernia operation.
Went to bed at 10pm yesterday, for unknown reason,
(Other than the operation itself)
I was completely exhausted,
got up at 7.45am, that's almost 10 hours of health repairing sleep.
The pain is a lot less noticible, but still there.
Yesterday while taking my shower,
I discover under my arm pit one of those succion cup
for the electrocardiogram,
the nurse missed that one... 
I am well enough to go spend the afternoon to the audio show
at Hotel Bonaventure, Montreal.

Guy 13

Well.... Not right now !


 

[Guy 13]

Hi all,
I saw something interesting on Facebook,
but could not download-it,
so here are the highlights of the article.
The little pell-off tab on fruits and vegetables
have code numbers and here are the meaning of them.
The code will tell the fruit or vegetable, country of origin, etc...
Organic : 5 gigit starting with a 9 Ex.: 94129
Conventional grown: 4 digit starting with a 4 Ex.: 4139
GMO: (Yes, the poison stuff....) 5 digit starting with an 8 Ex.: 84805
They say that the little sticker is edilable, eatable.

Guy 13
If part or all the above is incorrect,
please fell free to rectify.

[Guy 13]

This morning I have an appointment with the doctor who operate me for my hernia,
he will check if everything is alright.
The pain is now almost gone completely,
so I am on my way back to normal life.

Guy 13

Sometimes I wish I could do the same...

[Guy 13]

Hi all,
saw the doctor this morning and after a quick look at my lower body parts
he says that I am good, recovering well,
good for 30 years run or 100,000 miles which ever comes first. 

Guy 13
Still hurt a little...

[Guy 13]

Hernia up-date !
The pain is almost completely gone,
only my belly button hurt hen I touch it,
I know, why would I want to touch my belly button ??? 
here are still some skin discoloration (Purple) but it's slowly fading away.
Soooo... Soon this will be a thing of the past.

Guy 13

[Guy 13]

Hi all,
this morning I had my daily oat meal
(Sometimes organic when on promotion,
which is rarely the case.).
I make it with almond-coconut milk
(Which to me, is more like tasty distilled water
with a small percentage of almond-coconut juice.
Anyway, to me, it taste better than just tap water.
I also add some zero calory Stevia.
Of course the oat meal is of the slow cooking type.
(Good for diabetic type 2 like me.)
I also add one quarter apple (Gala type)
and half of a banana.
It's the best oat meal up to now.
When the price of strawberries or blueberries or the same is
more reasonnable I add them, but still keep in the apple and banana.
When I will be back on planet Vietnam,
I will add crushed cashew nuts, because on planet Vietnam
they almost pay you to eat them,
just a funny way of saying that they are really inexpensive.
A big bag for 2 USD, the same in Montreal would be around 20+USD.
Bon appétit !

Guy 13
 
It's so good, it's finger bowl liking good. 

[Guy 13]

Nearly 60 Percent of the American Diet Is 'Ultra-Processed' Food

Step away from the chips, cold cuts, and frozen pizza. They may provide on-the-fly meals, but these fast forms of sustenance come with a hidden cost: They tend to be “ultra-processed foods," which are terrible for our bodies. And according to a recent study published in BMJ Open, we’re eating way too much of this junk food. In fact, more than half of Americans’ calories come from ultra-processed foods, the Mayo Clinic reports.

You may know that processed foods contain added sugar, salt, fat, oils, and other ingredients. Ultra-processed foods also contain components that you would typically never add during food prep—colors, sweeteners, emulsifiers, etc.

Examples of ultra-processed foods include sodas, packaged snacks and baked goods, candy and desserts, instant noodles and soups, and frozen meat products like chicken and fish nuggets. They’re tasty—but they also account for 90 percent of all the added sugars Americans eat. (Sugar is linked to a host of health problems, including obesity, elevated blood pressure, tooth decay, diabetes, and a risk of death from heart disease.)

In the new study, researchers from the University of São Paulo and Tufts University examined data from the 2009–2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for more than 9000 people and found that a staggering 57.9 percent of their caloric intake came from ultra-processed foods. In contrast, minimally processed or unprocessed foods (meat, plants, eggs, pasta, etc.) accounted for 29.6 percent. Meanwhile, processed foods like canned soups or cheeses made up 9.4 percent of respondents’ caloric intake.

“Decreasing the consumption of ultra-processed foods may be an effective way of reducing the excessive added sugar intake in the U.S.,” said lead researcher Euridice Martinez Steele. By simply eliminating sodas and flavored fruit juices, pre-packaged foods, and pre-made meals from our diets, we can easily improve our health, she says.

In other words, stop relying on your office vending machine, and pack yourself a real lunch.

[FullRangeMan]

In most countries foods are irradiated also.

[Guy 13]

Over one in eight adults are now obese -- a ratio that has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five by 2025, a major survey reported Friday.

Of about five billion adults alive in 2014, 641 million were obese, the data showed -- and projected the number will balloon past 1.1 billion in just nine years.

The research warned of a looming crisis of "severe obesity" and disease brought on by high-fat, high-sugar diets causing blood pressure and cholesterol to rise.

"There will be health consequences of magnitudes that we do not know,"  author Majid Ezzati of Imperial College London told AFP.

The survey, published in The Lancet medical journal, claimed to be the most comprehensive of its kind conducted to date.

People are divided into healthy or unhealthy weight categories based on a universally-adopted measure dubbed Body Mass Index (BMI) -- a ratio of weight-to-height squared.

A healthy BMI ranges from 18.5 to 24.9.

One is considered underweight below 18.5, overweight from 25 up, and obese from 30 -- when the risk of diabetes, stroke, heart disease and some cancers escalates massively.

With a BMI of 35 one is categorised as severely obese, and from 40 upward as morbidly so.

Among men globally, obesity tripled from 3.2 percent of the population in 1975 to 10.8 percent in 2014 (some 266 million), and among women from 6.4 percent to 14.9 percent (375 million), said the survey -- 12.9 percent combined.

This was equivalent to the average adult, 18 and older, being 1.5 kilos (3.3 pounds) heavier every decade.

"If the rate of obesity continues at this pace, by 2025 roughly a fifth of men (18 percent) and women (21 percent) will be obese," according to a statement by The Lancet.

More than six percent of men and nine percent of women will be severely obese.

- Weighty flip-flop -

The ratio of underweight people in the world declined at a slower rate than obesity grew, said the authors -- from about 13.8 percent in 1975 to 8.8 percent for men, and 14.6 percent to 9.7 percent for women.

"Over the past 40 years, we have changed from a world in which underweight prevalence was more than double that of obesity, to one in which more people are obese than underweight," said Ezzati.

At current rates, more women will be severely obese (a BMI of 35 or more) than underweight by 2025, and the world will miss its stated target of halting obesity at 2010 levels.

In 2014, the world's fattest people lived in the island nations of Polynesia and Micronesia, where 38 percent of men and more than half of women were obese, said the study.

Nearly a fifth of the world's obese adults (118 million) lived in six high-income countries -- the United States, Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

The US was home to one in four severely obese men and almost one in five severely obese women in the world.

- Surgery as a solution?  -

At the other extreme, the paper said, Timor-Leste, Ethiopia and Eritrea had the lowest BMI numbers in the world, with averages as low as 20.1

More than a fifth of men in India, Bangladesh, Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, and a quarter of women in Bangladesh and India, were underweight.

"The global focus on the obesity epidemic has largely overshadowed the persistence of underweight in some countries," the research paper said.

"To address this problem will require social and food policies that enhance food security in poor households, but also avoid overconsumption of processed carbohydrates and other unhealthy foods."

Like being underweight, severe and morbid obesity has many health risks.

"We can deal with some of these, like higher cholesterol or blood pressure, through medicines," said Ezzati.

"But for many others, including diabetes, we don't have effective treatment."

The paper says stomach-shrinking bariatric surgery may become the "most effective intervention for weight loss and disease prevention" as waistlines continue expanding.

The data was compiled from 1,698 studies involving 19.2 million adults from 186 countries which are home to 99 percent of the world's population.

Unlike earlier research, studies were only included if the participants' height and weight had been measured -- not self-reported.

The data did not include statistics on children and teenagers.

[Guy 13]

How many bones there are in the human body ?
I think it's 302 ??? (Correct me if I am wrong.)
Well, give or take a few and all of them hurt,
I had fever, all the bones in my body hurts...
I took a hot (Burning) shower and went to bed
at 9.30pm
almost all dressed up and pulled two heavy blankets
to be hot and to sweat a lot
and this morning I was 80% good.
By tomorrow morning I should be 100%.
Did not take any medication, but did drink a lot of fluid.
We you are sick you feel like you want to die.
That was me yesterday.

Guy 13
I probably got a virus from someone in the public transportation bus,
because many are caughing and don't put their hands or better an
handkerchief in front of their mouth. 
 

[FullRangeMan]

Seems it 206 bones:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_ossos_do_esqueleto_humano

[Guy 13]

Seems it 206 bones:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_ossos_do_esqueleto_humano

Thaks FullRangeMan for the info,
but anyway, regardless of how many, all and every single bone did hurt ! 

Guy 13

[FullRangeMan]

According Skeletor you got a cold.

[Guy 13]

According Skeletor you got a cold.

Mister Skeleton is right, I do have a cold,
however, it's slowly going away... 

Guy 13