I'm guessing a 480 DDDDDDD.....but its just a guess. Picture is compliments of EnglishRussia.com.
Sunday, 25 May 2008
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I'm guessing a 480 DDDDDDD.....but its just a guess. Picture is compliments of EnglishRussia.com.
Health & Germany
I sat and read a blog site of a individual who's been in Germany for a number of years and chatted on their cholesterol rate. They arrived with a fairly high level, barely over 200....shifted to vegan....and it barely crept down at that point. They kinda hid out from the doc for several years and finally had the level tested again recently....finding it much lower. The analysis by the blogger was that Germany and its situation probably shifted their level downward.
In some sense....I have to agree on this analysis. In the past fifteen years....I've had three blood tests (yep, pretty bold for a guy approaching 50). I too....like to hide out and avoid the doc. When I arrived back in the early 90's here...my level for cholesterol was around 170....which was ok (not in danger of anything). This past month, my level was checked and I'm at 150 (at age 49). No issues.
My analysis? Well....I look at a number of things which are radically different from living in the US.
First, I'm eating barely twenty percent of the beef that I'd eat in the US. Germans simply don't have that many beef dishes. Hamburgers? I'm consuming a total of two per month today. I'm having thirty servings a year of fish in some fashion. Italian salads? I probably eat five of these per month....loaded with oil or various dressings. I eat some pork dish at least eight times a week now. Italian meals? Well....I'm eating pasta twice a week, and a pizza at least once a week.
Second, I drink a fair amount of red wine today. I take in almost 300 glasses of red wine per year, with a dozen glasses of champaign, and eighty glasses of beer. Before coming back to Germany....I had less than ten glasses of wine per year and probably forty glasses of beer per year. If you live in Germany, you can't avoid this trend.
Third, I drink water more than ever. Yes, I became a bottled water freak. I admit it....I consume eight big bottles of water per week. I'm a Evian freak and simply cannot give up the water today.
Fourth, my breakfast trend is strictly German. I have a German breakfast six times a week now. Lots of bread and jelly, a coffee, and twice a week a boiled egg. Rarely if ever....a sausage or stack of bacon. No pancakes. No butter. Rarely if ever....scrambled eggs. I've had one waffle in the past three years.
Fifth, my fruit intake today is twice what it was in 1990. I have around ten servings a week now of bananas, pineapple, apples, etc.
Sixth, I walk. Germans rig up the parking lots in a central location and you have to walk if you shop. My village has twenty miles of walking trails within four miles of the city territory. These are all paved or established trails. I probably walk up to seven miles a week on average.
Seventh, I used to consume one six-pack of Pepsi a day....yes, I can admit that today. That was in the late 90s. I probably have six sodas a week today.
Eighth, junk food? Well...in an entire year, I barely have a box of pop-tarts now....and barely consume one American candy bar a month now.
Am I doing something right or is my body doing just what its supposed to do? This is probably the better question to ask in this case.
In some sense....I have to agree on this analysis. In the past fifteen years....I've had three blood tests (yep, pretty bold for a guy approaching 50). I too....like to hide out and avoid the doc. When I arrived back in the early 90's here...my level for cholesterol was around 170....which was ok (not in danger of anything). This past month, my level was checked and I'm at 150 (at age 49). No issues.
My analysis? Well....I look at a number of things which are radically different from living in the US.
First, I'm eating barely twenty percent of the beef that I'd eat in the US. Germans simply don't have that many beef dishes. Hamburgers? I'm consuming a total of two per month today. I'm having thirty servings a year of fish in some fashion. Italian salads? I probably eat five of these per month....loaded with oil or various dressings. I eat some pork dish at least eight times a week now. Italian meals? Well....I'm eating pasta twice a week, and a pizza at least once a week.
Second, I drink a fair amount of red wine today. I take in almost 300 glasses of red wine per year, with a dozen glasses of champaign, and eighty glasses of beer. Before coming back to Germany....I had less than ten glasses of wine per year and probably forty glasses of beer per year. If you live in Germany, you can't avoid this trend.
Third, I drink water more than ever. Yes, I became a bottled water freak. I admit it....I consume eight big bottles of water per week. I'm a Evian freak and simply cannot give up the water today.
Fourth, my breakfast trend is strictly German. I have a German breakfast six times a week now. Lots of bread and jelly, a coffee, and twice a week a boiled egg. Rarely if ever....a sausage or stack of bacon. No pancakes. No butter. Rarely if ever....scrambled eggs. I've had one waffle in the past three years.
Fifth, my fruit intake today is twice what it was in 1990. I have around ten servings a week now of bananas, pineapple, apples, etc.
Sixth, I walk. Germans rig up the parking lots in a central location and you have to walk if you shop. My village has twenty miles of walking trails within four miles of the city territory. These are all paved or established trails. I probably walk up to seven miles a week on average.
Seventh, I used to consume one six-pack of Pepsi a day....yes, I can admit that today. That was in the late 90s. I probably have six sodas a week today.
Eighth, junk food? Well...in an entire year, I barely have a box of pop-tarts now....and barely consume one American candy bar a month now.
Am I doing something right or is my body doing just what its supposed to do? This is probably the better question to ask in this case.
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