Friday, April 22, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
After reading an interesting article in the NY Times about sugar research and a bit of digging about in the associated studies, I decided to give up sugar. Not entirely, that would be too tiresome and fanatic. But in line with what I understood from those studies, to simply stop adding sugar to my coffee which I calculate is the major source of sugar for me. Thank goodness Asti secured a supply of Zucrinet for me. With enough of that my morning coffee is still quite acceptably sweet and tasty.
Since we don't eat much processed or packaged food I think we have very little hidden sugar in our diet. The shift away from processed food was a response to my dislike of the UK formulations - everything was too sweet or too vinegary or had a weird texture.
Coincidently, last week I had some extensive blood tests done so in a month I shall ask my doctor to repeat them and we'll see if there's any change. Again, according to the studies, the response to removing fructose from the diet is surprisingly rapid.
A harmless experiment and an interesting one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Since we don't eat much processed or packaged food I think we have very little hidden sugar in our diet. The shift away from processed food was a response to my dislike of the UK formulations - everything was too sweet or too vinegary or had a weird texture.
Coincidently, last week I had some extensive blood tests done so in a month I shall ask my doctor to repeat them and we'll see if there's any change. Again, according to the studies, the response to removing fructose from the diet is surprisingly rapid.
A harmless experiment and an interesting one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
A good day at Oxford ACCU AGM. Lovely drive there and back; sunshine and light traffic felt as if we were in some other country. ;)
The meeting was classic. Just goes to show what happens when you piss off old politicians. I, of course, always enjoy theatre and this was a very worthy production, long in the making. Among other excitement, Alan was elected secretary, taking the position over from a retiring colleague who had taken over from Alan over 10 years ago.
He who controls the minutes, controls the world.
This will be an interesting year.
My only regret was that we decided to go directly home to avoid what looked like horrendous traffic heading farther into Oxford. I'd originally wanted to detour through Oxford centre to stop in at the ONLY decent noodle house in the UK and buy some chow fun - several orders of it in fact - to put in the freezer. This is soul food for NY Jews.
The meeting was classic. Just goes to show what happens when you piss off old politicians. I, of course, always enjoy theatre and this was a very worthy production, long in the making. Among other excitement, Alan was elected secretary, taking the position over from a retiring colleague who had taken over from Alan over 10 years ago.
He who controls the minutes, controls the world.
This will be an interesting year.
My only regret was that we decided to go directly home to avoid what looked like horrendous traffic heading farther into Oxford. I'd originally wanted to detour through Oxford centre to stop in at the ONLY decent noodle house in the UK and buy some chow fun - several orders of it in fact - to put in the freezer. This is soul food for NY Jews.
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