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Findecanor:
Once you have turned 50 or so, please do one thing for yourself every ten years or so: get a colonoscopy!
The worst part is the prep: fasting and cleansing the colon. The actual procedure is a breeze: lay back and relax, and look at the screen and wonder at how you look on the inside .. or choose general anaesthetic during the procedure. It is not dangerous. It is not demeaning. It is generally not painful.
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common and most dangerous types of cancer: if left to grow, in time it often spreads to vital organs, showing no symptoms before it is too late.
Luckily, it normally takes a long time to develop from pre-stage to polyp to full-blown cancer — and during that time it can be nipped during a colonoscopy.
(I know, I have nagged about this in other threads already. But I've known people in my parents' generation who did not get it and died from child tumours in the liver, or got it too late and was lucky to only have radiation therapy and surgery that sew their anus shut and wear a poo-bag the rest of their life — and that is just so ridiculously unnecessary!
Myself, because of my aforementioned abnormally bad genetic mix, I have to get a colonoscopy every year. That is why I can recommend it.)
chyros:
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Guys, take care of yourselves. Eat healthy and exercise - cliche but true.
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I read this as I was eating a Pop-Tart.
Eating well is hard to do long term. I can do it for a maybe a month if I'm dedicated, but eventually convenience always swoops back in and woos me (generally when I run out of groceries and don't feel like shopping). But seeing how my parents turned out, I definitely need to heed your advice and at least keep the weight off.
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It's not just the weight. When you eat the standard western diet, it's 30-50% calories from fat. This stuff gets into your arteries and tears up the endothelial lining < the lining which generates oxides to lubricate blood flow> The lining then begins to scar, and that becomes your atherosclerosis.
The problem is people do not eat for energy these days, they eat for "fun." This is a major psychological shift, such that modern humans are COMPELLED towards greasy hyperpalatables , and they consider that NORMAL.
Without a major operational change in mindset, a person making superficial day to day emotional offsets on consumption will inevitably acquire the SAME disease of affluence which leads to the #1 and #2 killers, Cancer + Heart disease.
Wholefoodplantbased solves the problem, the barrier is that it takes a tremendous amount of homework to actuate, You add in the peer pressure and rationalized collective failures of common proximal hughhmahnns, one really needs to be a recluse like Tp4 to stand a chance.
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I'd say the real barrier is that it's ****ing disgusting :p .
Sintpinty:
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Y'all oldies @ gekha feeling it lately?
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No im still in my prime
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