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 A tentative blog to test the temperature. |
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Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end. So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.     |
| Diet There was a time when I was on the seafood diet. See food and I eat it, of course. Old age has had the last laugh, however, and now I am confronted with the need to think before I eat. This has recently become complicated by the fact that I have more than one major consideration in deciding between diets. On the one hand, I have been sticking to a reasonably heart-friendly diet for the last few years. It seems to have worked for there has been very little change in my relevant numbers in that time - I am holding my own, it seems! But now I find that I need to start being kind to my kidneys as well as the old ticker. These guys are not what they used to be, apparently, and are demanding an easier time from me as a result. And that’s where things begin to become complicated. Heart and kidney diets don’t overlap a great deal. What’s good in one case is often a definite no-no in the other. And I find that my options on allowable food are shrinking almost to the point of non-existence. There are about five foods that are more or less guaranteed not to kill me and real invention is required to devise new ways of combining these into something vaguely palatable. Not that I’m complaining. It’s an interesting experiment and my wife is endlessly creative when designing new dishes from so restricted an ingredient list. I’ve always regarded food as just fuel so it’s fairly easy for me to adjust to new and unheard of meals. Looking into the future, however, I can’t help but wonder about any third requirement that comes along. With my luck, there’s something that will give new instructions for a specific diet or it goes on strike. And what happens if that wipes out my last remaining foodstuffs? Life was always a bit of a crap shoot, wasn’t it? Word count: 326 |
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