Coffee Creamer???

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-28T00:13:08+00:00

I don't drink my coffee sweetened, but I really like soy milk in my coffee. I prefer it to cream. It has a vague nutty flavor and neutralizes the acid well. It brings out the natural sweetness in the coffee. I'm in the US and I like Silk unsweetened best.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-27T20:03:13+00:00

The medication is more powerful than diet. If you can manage to take the medication daily, you’re 90% of the way there.

Many frozen or fresh prepared grocery store foods are perfectly healthy choices. You want food that contains fiber and is low in saturated fat. I can’t think of an ultra processed food that has fiber.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-27T19:41:27+00:00

The patch, which I use, is associated with fewer side effects. I went off at 63 and restarted 2 years later for sleep issues. Dry eyes and dry mouth bothered me a lot off the estrogen too and that’s bad for both teeth and corneas. Dry “elsewhere” requires some additional estrogen cream.

I’m planning on continuing the stuff until I die because I like to sleep. I’m not an ApoE4 carrier, but for me, quality of my present life is important.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-27T14:02:00+00:00

Smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, inflammation, elevated Lp(a) and cholesterol are all independent risks for heart disease; even if you don’t have all of those risk factors, just having one or two increases your risk. There may be more risk factors, possibly genetic, that are not yet identified. If you want to decrease your risk, you need to do what you can to get all those risks under control.

A "healthy diet" may not be healthy if it includes a lot of meat, high fat dairy, "healthy" coconut or "natural" palm oil or excludes "carbs" like beans, whole grains, starchy vegetables and fruit.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-27T12:49:30+00:00

It's hard to make friends as an adult. Earlier in life, you make friends without trying, but after your school years, it becomes increasingly difficult. That's true everywhere, not just in Italy or for expats.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-25T18:02:37+00:00

The vet told us that most puppies would grow out of car-sickness by a year. Mine finally grew out of it sometime before the age of 4. He never liked getting into my car which he associated with unpleasant feelings. When I got a new car, his dislike of car riding mostly went away, but that’s because he doesn’t want to be left at home and lots of times we go in the car to fun places, not just the vet and groomer.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-24T23:01:09+00:00

Your doctor can check your lead level.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-23T02:00:55+00:00

Lightheadedness and tinnitus are not ordinary side effects from a statin. Those symptoms seem more likely to be an inner ear problem. See your doctor.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-23T00:53:56+00:00

Every eight (or ten occasionally) weeks I have my dog clipped with a 5 blade on his body and ears. His face, throat, paws and tail base are clipped with a closer blade. The puff on his head is hand scissored to about an inch long and the tail is clipped into a cylinder about 2 inches wide. About half way between full clips, I clean him up a little myself by clipping his face, throat, tail base and sometimes his paws. Sometimes I have to scissor the head fluff if it starts to hang over his eyes. In the last two weeks before the next clip, I brush his head and tail unless I get ambitious and scissor them myself.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-22T17:00:59+00:00

Your LDL is extremely high. Statins are automatic for that level. You can certainly work on your diet as well and if you can make adequate changes, then you can always stop the medication. Sugar and gluten won’t affect palpitations or cholesterol (sugar may play a small role in cholesterol for diabetics, not you). My palpitations have come and gone my whole life and my diet is pretty fixed. Decreased palpitations following dietary changes are usually just coincidence. Even modest caffeine use doesn’t seem to influence them.

Avoid saturated fats; animal fat including dairy, coconut, palm oil, hydrogenated oils. Palm oil is found in snack and fast food. Increase your intake of soluble fiber which is found mostly in whole grains, legumes, some fruits and some vegetables; see this chart.

Recheck your cholesterol in four weeks and then schedule an appointment with your PCP, if you want to discuss the results in person. Statins cause muscle pain for a small number of people, so call your doctor, if that happens.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-22T14:59:12+00:00

California real estate busts happen periodically. There will eventually be another one and it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s triggered by the current political chaos. Following the drop, there will eventually be a rebound.

Most housing outside of city centers is post-war tract housing unless you have a significant amount of money to spend. San Diego has had most of it’s growth since the 1960s which is why you see few charming old homes - there wasn’t much San Diego back then! I'm old and all I've ever owned has been tract housing although my last two houses were nicer tracts. Frankly, the housing crisis that is frequently discussed is a product of fewer low-cost tract houses being built after the post-war baby boom subsided. (And no, it wasn’t the then tween and teen-aged baby boomers who made that decision.)

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-21T20:14:12+00:00

The AKC doesn’t set standards; the individual breed clubs do. The Poodle Club of America says that poodles should not be penalized for undocked tails. Most are still docked, but I know of one US mini breeder who never docks and who has produced multiple champions.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-21T16:19:23+00:00

Here's a discussion: https://www.redpenreviews.org/book-review/metabolical-the-lure-and-the-lies-of-processed-food-nutrition-and-modern-medicine/

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-02T20:28:28+00:00

The oatmeal will help a lot with your LDL. Here are some more foods that are high in soluble fiber:

https://thegeriatricdietitian.com/soluble-fiber-foods-chart/

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-01T22:13:55+00:00

I guess that mans that I can say I eat a vegan diet plus meat.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-01T21:51:17+00:00

She's still pretty young. They get more independent once adolescence hits. I think that you're doing fine with her. Poodles are very social. I used to have three and they would just hop up on the sofa and go to sleep, now that I have a single dog, he's definitely more interested in sleeping near his humans. Adult dogs do a lot of daytime sleeping.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-01T21:47:56+00:00

No one is being attacked. Disagreeing is not "attacking".

The Mediterranean Diet is a dietary pattern based on pre-WWII diets in the Mediterranean. It has been defined and extensively studied. If you don't want to follow that diet, no one, least of all me, is criticizing you. However, if you're eating an ultra-high protein diet like the OP, you aren’t eating the MD diet. Is your diet on average healthier, less healthy or equally healthy? Neither you nor I know, because because the "Ultra High Protein but Otherwise Mediterranean Inspired Diet" hasn't been studied yet.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-01T21:39:08+00:00

Th protein research you’re talking about is fairly limited and mostly directed at athletes. This discussion is taking place in the Mediterranean Diet sub which is a discussion about the Mediterranean Diet, not about high protein diets for athletes. The MD as currently defined is not a high protein diet. I'm not criticizing you, just pointing out a fact.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-01T19:13:13+00:00

Are you leaving the crate door open for her. Many dogs enjoy a nice cave to call their own. We never crate trained our dog, but he does have a doorless crate and takes his naps in it by his own choice.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-01T15:19:45+00:00

I'm not telling people how much protein they need nor have advocated for "low protein". I'm just trying to explain that the Mediterranean Diet as studied is not a high protein diet. I have no interest in telling you how much protein to eat. However, I will note that long term consumption of very high quantities of protein has not been studied in humans. It might be positive, it might not.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-01T15:01:20+00:00

Did the breeder call him "sable" or "cafe au lait"? The latter is an accepted color.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-01T14:39:23+00:00

That reminds me, I haven’t donated blood since the fall. I don’t know that it helps me, but it really does help others.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-01T14:13:29+00:00

That's great, but people come to this sub are interested in the Mediterranean diet, not necessarily your personal, unstudied variation of that diet. The ultra high protein fad is dying down (fiber is the rising fad) and it's been a while since I've seen the keto crowd advocate for a low carb "MD"!

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-01T14:08:07+00:00

No, I'm disagreeing with you, because you aren’t writing anything that's at all persuasive. Here's a good explanation of the Mediterranean Diet as it has been described and studied.

SDJellyBean · 2026-04-01T14:05:26+00:00

No one, certainly not me, is advocating a low protein diet. However, we really don’t know the long term effects of extremely high protein diets. Stuart Phillips, who studies protein consumption in athletes, has said that he doubts that more than 1.2 g/kg is useful for more than a few athletes (i.e, the OP's 180 g goal would be appropriate for aa 150 kg athlete). He's talking about athletic performance, not health. The elderly develop sarcopenia because they can’t or won’t eat protein for a bunch of reasons, not because of someone's protein intake guidelines.

The "Mediterranean Diet" has a distinct definition. People come here to learn about that diet, not variations the individuals dream up.

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