healthy living

Interesting talk on radio 4as I was driving. Latest research shows chondroitin etc makesno difference to oa! Just as I always thought!

I hate the 'healthy bores' the 'sweets and coffee never pass my lips' bores etc etc. Moderation is the key - by all means be a vegan/green tea drinker but please let me enjoy my coffee and meat in peace.

Being lectured is always boring. My DH and I have a pact that I am allowed to lecture him about diet coke once a year and no more.
I agree susie scientific background is important. But it is also hard work. Much easier to latch onto a few simple good/bad concepts and treat them as a religious doctrine.
Food is something we can control, people like to feel they are in control of their bodies, therefore some get fixated on food and health.
You could try something pleasant but slightly deflating like:
"I know green tea is good for you. Apparently it is even better than the ordinary kind. Both full of antioxidants aren't they." And then change the subject.
(tempting though it might be don't say "my neighbour drinks green tea and she has just gone down with a really nasty painful incurable terminal disease, so there!)
If she has kids/ or grandkids ask her how they are. This always works. People never say 'not bad' and then go back to talking about green tea. Do they? Well maybe they do but only if they are upset about something and don't want to share it.
In which case try: How is your cat/goat/llama?

I think it would be better to get completely genned up on the subject of healthy foods, and argue it out with her until she gets tired of it.

Refers to your question in orginal post.

"Can I say to her that I appreciate that she has her own ideas about healthy living and that I have mine and can we keep them to ourselves."

jingl Does YES YOU CAN BUT I WOULDNT ADVISE IT. refer to Have a lovely day. Or alcohol in moderation and laughing in great quantities.

Yes you can. But I wouldn't advise it.

I too try to avoid doctors at all costs and try to live healthily but for me the important thing is to read proper scientific research with an enquiring and questioning mind. Couple this with understanding what your body requires and it will tell you this by means of making your life uncomfortable with indigestion, constipation, headaches, skin reactions, obesity etc. I wouldn't say I have got it right I still have weight to lose but I also wouldn't say I foist it on anybody else unless of course you come to stay and I just serve up the same food which is very simple lots of fresh food, fruit and veg, low fat almost no salt (we are both treated for hypertension) more chicken and fish than red meat, miniscule processed meat (the occasional bit of bacon) wouldn't waste my money on organic produce, alchohol in moderation laughing in great quantities.

Have a lovely day.

Sounds to me as though she needs a few E Numbers!

Yes! Absolutely. You can say that to her.

Add that a little of what you fancy does you good.

Moderation in all things is the key. If you occasionally eat/drink something that is less than healthy, your wonderful system will deal with it. The exercise is good for it.

If you overwhelm the system, of course, it will not be able to cope, but people who follow the "my body is a temple" dogma are not any healthier than those who just use common sense.