Quote from: Igebotz on Today at 12:51:35 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 12:32:58 AM

I found out I was diabetic in fall of 2018. I weighed 240 at 6foot and my a1c was 12.1 which pretty much means you are going to die if you dont treat yourself.

My parents had to deal with a lot of diabetes crap before they died; neither of them lived to reach 65 years old, and 98% of diabetics are genetic, if I am not mistaken. I tried to cut back on my sugar intake because I'm afraid I'll develop diabetes, but no one in my family has ever had diabetes, so where did both of my parents get it?

I used to hit daily push up and upload on my Facebook page in my late 20s , now I'm a shadow of myself.

I doubt that diabetes is genetic.

Sure there are likely people who are more disposed to diabetes than others, yet diet can go a long way in terms of reducing sugar and/or carb intake or other foods that convert to sugar.

Also it is good to eat natural fats and to remove various seed oils (overly processed oils). Philip's description of his foods are generally pretty good for someone who is wanting to aim towards dietary control of diabetes, which would likely help with a lot of folks with diabetes, even if it might not completely cure them (perhaps some folks lack discipline to stay away from carbs and bad oils).

Regarding pushups: Even if you are falling out of shape, you probably would benefit from adding pushups into your daily routine.. such as starting out doing three sets of 8-12 and then work your way up from there.

When I started this challenge 310 days ago, I had not been doing pushups for many years, probably more than 15 years.. yet I did have some various kinds of resistance training that I had been doing from time to time in the past 15 years.

I came to pushups and I was thinking that it was going to be too difficult for me, yet I thought that the fact that it is a challenge related to bitcoin, then I will try it out and see what I would be able to do, and so I was anticipating that I probably would ONLY be able to do sets of 15-25, and the first week or so I did mostly have pushup sets that were between 15 and 35, and I was pretty sore even though I spread the sets out through-out the day to try to mitigate some of my soreness (and to give me lots of recovery time between sets), and little by little my quantity of pushups per set gravitated up and my number of sets per day also gravitated up... and sure a lot of soreness along the way, but dedicating a certain amount of time and space every day for pushups.

Quote from: Igebotz on Today at 01:26:43 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 01:08:30 AM

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Almost everything is unhealthy for the system, including too much water.

Sure a person can overdose with water, yet it does not mean that we should not attempt to think through which ingredients are more problematic and which ones are less problematic.

The Weston Price foundation talks about eating what your grandparents ate (perhaps great grandparents for some younger folks), which is getting away from processed foods and promotiing the idea of eating natural and whole foods without so many of the processed foods.

Another thing is that the human body can take a lot of abuse, yet if many of us have been eating relatively poor diets for a large portion of our lives, then we build up a kind of insulin resistance, and our body becomes no longer able to process or tolerate some of the bad ingredients, including the carbs.

It likely is true that if we are able to eat a pretty clean diet, then we could still eat some of the poor foods such as beer and deserts as long as we mostly do them in moderation. Of course, some of the bad foods create addiictions for more bad foods, so I would not even say that you have to stay away from beer if you were able to otherwise maintain a decent diet that does not have a lot of carbs and/or a lot of the bad oils.

Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 01:49:21 AM

Quote from: Igebotz on Today at 01:26:43 AM

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Finding things that taste like pasta and bread is very hard and when I do find them they cost bigly.

I question several of your low carb processed food recommendation, but sure, maybe those items are better in your diet than comparable products to the extent that they are helpful in your diet (or satisfy your carb cravings).