Food for staying well & looking good - live webchat with Linda Doeser 11 January 1-2pm

"a touch of indigestion, a sensation of bloating, feeling and looking tired, poor sleep, middle-age spread, aching joints, constipation and muddled thinking as the inevitable outcomes of advancing years."

My God, Cari! Have you got all of that?!!

Ambrosia and Nectar are the only foods recommdened for our dreadful condition!

Has Linda Doeser a book that is due to be published soon - is that the project?

If so, might this be a form of advertising?

Just feeling picky........

Don't like the concept of passive decline either - and would be hard pressed to think of any of us on GN that would fit that particular attitude to ageing.

To be honest, I don't mind if there's a book in the offing. I guess no-one does this kind of thing for nothing.

Just so long as they give good, informative answers it's ok.

I was on a bit of a passive decline yesterday. But the sun is shining today and I feel much better.

I think sun is more important to feeling good than the kind of food you eat.

Or, failing sun, fluoxetine. (which works in the same way)

Someone needs to actually ask a question. (This is turning into a chat )

- Glad you're no longer in passive decline jingl - and I agree - the sun does wonders.

Yes - reasonable diet, a bit of exercise ( preferably in the sunshine) and good friends. I didn't feel that any of the points in the intro really applied to me so that's why I haven't asked a question. However my 35 year-old daughter has Rheumatoid arthritis and I feel she could be more careful with her diet, although she is an excellent cook. Any advice?
PS Who came up with the phrase 'passive decline'? That's not the same as having an 'off day' is it?

I would have to say that one of the pleasures of retirement is having more time to grow our own fruit and veg, visit markets and spend even more time cooking and exploring new cuisines. In the spirit of asking a question though -

I have always lived by the maxim, "Everything in moderation and a little of what you fancy does you good." Is there any reason to change that as I get older?

Should we actually eat less as we get older - I still don't understand why when I was 18 I could cut down on food and easily lose weight, but now I can't lose an ounce - I also feel I am as active if not more so than I was then?

It's the metabolism that changes, unfortunately

One of the delights of ageing......

I have already changed to a healthy diet but I would like to ask if dementia can be related to poor eating. My SIL was a vegetarian and was then told by a quack nutritionist that she was allergic to wheat, citrus fruit, dairy....more or less everything. She was reduced to eating salads and some nuts and I wondered if that diet accelerated her Alzheimer's.

By the way, I keep reading the title of this thread as 'Dosser weds' - I thought at first it was a news story about a tramp's wedding.

I don't know if it's ok for me to ask this as I am a mum and not yet a gran ...but am suffering from that hideous January need-to-lose-weight-but-permanently-ravenous thing. I'd like to drop a stone and am not interested in any of these celebrity diets etc - but how can I stop myself from being starving all the time?

I second beeble's question!!

Butternut, I don't think the metabolism would necessarily slow if we could just keep doing the same amount of moving about as we did. The problem is, tiredness cuts in more than it did.

Hello Linda. Could you please tackle flatulence. I experience far too much of it.

There, I've said it!

I think it's the healthy foods, like porridge and fruit, that are the worst culprits, to be honest, so what can I do about that?! I want to eat healthily, but I don't want the embarrassment!

Oh, I wonder if it's Cari or Geraldine that's gonna read that! Or all of 'em! [nightmare]

You can delete it if you like.

I can cook/eat healthily
I can cook/eat cheaply
I can cook/eat to lose weight - and need to do so before my daughter's wedding this summer as I am at least 2 stone overweight.

What I cannot do is all 3. So many "cheap" but nutricious recipes are also fattening, "lean" slimming food is expensive - so what can I do?

he he!

Not to mention Jerusalem Artichokes!

Should I raise the tone by moving from flatulence to fish?

Much is said about the benefits of oily fish. I like salmon, can't abide mackerel or sardines and always have a decent stock of tinned tuna. How much should I be eating, what should I be doing with it and what will it do for me?