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I saw Sid yesterday, & he asked me to post a photo of him, in his current slightly portly shape.

He has just started a Super-Diet (Nutrient rich I think?) & he wants to catalogue his progress. If you Update this regularly, we'll move it to the Diary Section, but lets see how you go first.

Then, when he has succeeded, you can buy his new book, "Sid Sheds Stones".  

I kid you not. Roll up, roll up.

Here is the "before" photo" though I think he has already lost a stone. Just the 2 stone more to lose, then.

Good luck Sid, & it was grand to chat yesterday. Great Tourney, too, good luck today. I so wish I was still in, but I went for a last hand double up, which did not quite go according to plan.  




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Thanks for posting the photo taken yesterday where I weigh 16st 11lb. Just over a couple of weeks ago I weighed 18st. It is because of my consistent weight loss of approx 1lb a day that I decided to write a book about it. The book will take about two months to write, in that two months I intend to lose an average of two stone a month, keeping up the 1lb a day weight loss. I intend to lose another three and a half stone at the rate of a stone a fortnight.

What I have done here is put myself all in - going out on a limb is going to motivate me. I also want to spread the good news on a daily basis - to motivate others to follow this diet because it is so easy - after three days food cravings dissapear.

I had all the information to write this diet book nine years ago after I wrote The Truth About Food - But I have no option than to write it now. The future is bleak for 68 year old men who weigh eighteen stone. All kinds of illness would be a given.

TK's Idea of a title for the book will do for now - but I do have a commercial title up my sleeve but that can weight for a couple of months when the book is published.

I will endeavour to update this thread on a daily basis listing the exact daily weight loss and what the diet entails. There are a few players that I have spoken to lately who know they have to take action before they fall ill. Hopefully this thread will motivate them - If an old guy like me can do it, you can too.

All the best Sid Harris  El Sid.

Well done Sid, and good luck.

68 years old, you say? Sheesh.

Day two of posting on Blonde, fortunately (or maybe not) many who have no interest in diet will not need to read this  continuing thread of an old man's journey from 18 stone plus to 13 st 7lb.

To those who have no weight problem; you will know plenty of people that do - this country, and indeed the western world, have a life threatening problem that lieaves terrorism in the shade. If you have a friend who needs help with weight management point them in this direction, they will thank you for it. I can assure you of that.

The thing that prompted this weight loss was a television programme by Joe Cross entitled Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. This title applied to me totally. Joe has his own internet site:
http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/

The bonus of these micro nutrient diet is that you feel amazing - it's a Brain booster and makes you feel amazingly optimistic as all toxins disappear from your system.

The first thing anyone who recommends a diet does is tell you to visit your doctor for advice. This is never a bad idea and a good idea, while your there, if you are on medication ask for a full list of the side effects. I am a fan of the medical profession and the good they do. But the more you can avoid the need to visit them the better.

It was an esteemed member of the medical profession that prompted me to learn more and more on the subject of nutrition. I was a humble eighteen year old greengrocer then who worked in the family greengrocery business. We had a shop at 140 Praed Street, Lloyds for Fruit. One of our customers was a surgeon called David Levy who ran the Lindo Wing at St. Mary's hospital, a few hundred yards up the road.

St. Mary's was where Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin from the bacteria of a rotting pear. My father always swore that the pear had come from out shop. My greatest memory of St. Mary's was how gorgeous the nurses were and how difficult is seemed to be to get them out on a date. To quote Ronnie Corbett "I digress"

David Levy bought tons of fruit that he distributed to his staff, he always came to choose what he wanted and he always wanted it fresh off the truck as it arrived. This is back in the 1960's and he believed in five a day long before anyone else really bothered.

Every visit to the shop meant an in depth lesson in the different attributes of fruit and vegetables - he was a fascinating man and I hung on his every word. One of the things he explained to me prompted me to write - The Truth About Food.

Everybody knows the effects of scurvy, which was the scourge of sailors in the eighteenth century, well David Levy explained to me that the effects of scurvy unravelled the body in such a way that a wound that had healed three or four years before would open up for lack of vitamin C. This profound thought of the body unravelling itself without vitamins prompted me to read everything I could about nutrition. When it comes to fruit and vegetables I am a believer.

I spent thirteen years in the family business from fourteen to twenty-seven which involved moving thousands of tons of potatoes in that time. When I started out they were in hundred weight (112lb) hessian sacks and as time wore on they were half hundred weight paper sacks, much as are used now. For the past few years I (and many like me) have been carrying the equivalent of a 56lb bag of potatoes all the time.

There is a long road ahead: as of today my weight in stones is 16.92 (using digital scales 92 is 92% of a stone) but because no food cravings are envolved it's not going to be such a difficult journey.

I sense quite a story developing here, Sid, loved all that background stuff.

I have fond memories of Praed Street from when I was 5 onwards, & I still get a thrill when I am there, for a very special reason indeed, but it has nothing to do with Vegetables (which I abhor) or St Marys Hospital......

If this thread continues in this vein, we'll move it to the Diary section in a day or two.

Any luck on Day Two at that Brighton Tourney?

LOVED your play with A-J in the penultimate hand on Saturday. The kids were going loopy at your bad play. Well, the kid who got forced off the better hand was....

Consider me subscribed.

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Fat-free popcorn, guv.

My table had some of the local lads on it who were well chipped up. Love to watch their personalities change and their mood swings, as their chips rise and fall. They just love the emotional turmoil and have yet to discover equilibrium. I took a calculated guess with that hand that none of them would have called me with anything less than AA or  KK so near the final bell, they were all good enough to put down AK or AQ they wouldn't be looking for a fity fifty. If they had it, good luck to them.

Time will tone down their egos and improve their play, they are luck enough to be super fuelled by testosterone.

Lately on the rare occasions when I sit down to play I make a decision to play in the style of a particular player, it might be Albert Sappiano, Ali Malu or Gary Bush, when I play in the style of Bushy I keep getting up and walking around the tables to see relative chip stacks. This is called mixing up your game - hopefully if I live long enough I will be able to play in the style of Phil Ivey - if I can master that I will stick to playing like Ivey all the way.

My last hand yesterday played itself I went All In with a pair nines to be called by a pair of tens. First card out was a ten so it was "Thanks for coming" which is the regular Rendezvous rubdown coined by the notorious Kouresh.

Wow, some great insight there, Sid.

For what it is worth, you forced one kid off A-K when you isolated the "blind" shortie with your A-J. The lad then said to me "would YOU call with A-K there?", clearly seeking some reassurance.

LOVE the enboldened part. I may just try that. Wonder who I can imagine being?

tThe feeling of not being hungry at all is starting to have some impact on my thinking. Really had no inclination to eat today and for somebody who hasn't gone a day without food cravings it's a bit of a shock. I had all the information to write this diet book eight years ago. Immediately after I published TheTruth About Food, I sent copies of the book to eight hundred medical practitioners in the London area. Their feedback was astounding and I realised that I had the basis of the book I am writing now. I could have saved myself a lot of lethargy if I had written it then and taken my own advice at the same time. It's easy telling other people what they should be doing.  Following your own advice is another matter.

I shall edit this post in the morning to enter my weight loss, this is not to bore everyone to distraction, it's so that anyone who decides to try the diet will know what kind of daily weight loss to expect. When recording a weight loss the best time to do it is first thing in the morning after ones ablutions.

Tomorrows post will explain more about the micro nutrients and how you turn your five a day into fifty a day.

*** Tuesday 6th August update 6.45 am.     Monday weighed  16 Stone.92
                                                            Tuesday weighed 16 Stone .84     Approx 1lb weight loss

And isn't that the truth!!

Good luck Sid, will be following with interest  :)up

Subscribed, number one Sid fan so not a surprise.

Today I weighed in at 16 stone .84, maintaining the approx. 1 pound a day weight loss.

The answer to the loss of food cravings are micro nutrients. To extract these micro nutrients from the planet you need a juicer. In the U.K a really durable juicer costs around £100. In the U.S.A they are far cheaper. No surprise there.

The bad news is a juicer has to be cleaned thoroughly each time it is used the good news is, because of the way this diet is set up, you only need to clean it every other day.

The diet ensures that you get your five a day multiplied by ten. The diet is based on a forty-eight hour cycle. All cravings for carbohydrates and sugars are gone after the first three days.

Exercise comes into the equation – for couch potatoes it means three or four ten minute walks a week, walking as fast as you can. But it’s going to be different for each person, according to their current weight and how much exercise they are already taking.

Will update tomorrow with a less dry post: I will leave you with a quote from my personal hero, Muhammad Ali –
“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life”

Subscribed because I'm juicing too, have been for about 2 months now. Same tablets as Joe Cross but stronger & you wouldn't believe how fed up I am about them & the situation.

FWIW I got an Andrew James juicer on ebay for about 50.00 & a smoothie to go from Comet.

To Supernova, thanks for following. What kind of weight loss have you had over two months and how do you feel in general?

All the best Sid.

Hi Sid

Good luck with your endeavours.

Im attempting to lose weight from 18st 12lbs but using the words 'healthy eating' instead of 'diet' as once I get down to a reasonable weight in region of 14st I want to keep it at that.

Im trying to enjoy my food but keep to smaller portions and although still enjoy the odd biscuit generally replace with fruit.

This has lead to a 9lb loss in 6 weeks and aiming for my first goal of 18st in next two weeks.

Should be doing more excercise as in walking my dog and swimming but blame the lack of that on work committments.

Ill be keeping an eye on your progress and that book.

cheers

Hi Sid,

Most people lose a lot more than I have tbf, I have only lost a stone and some can achieve that in 2 weeks but my body shape is changing too thank goodness due to exercise. I have breaks to go to APAT & start having solid meals a couple of days beforehand.

I also have no immune system due to my meds so I pick up bugs/colds/flu/viruses etc very easily. So my reasons for juicing are to get me off the meds & all the other meds I have to take to counteract the meds. My weight ballooned through them also along with a ridic amount of side effects both physical & mental. It was my cardiologist who swung it for me when I said I was getting very depressed about the weight the meds were putting on. He said that they clung on to all the salts & sugars etc that were in processed food & carbohydrates. While I was on the meds and eating 1200 calories a day containing some of these I'd never lose weight, no matter how much exercise I did.

I  saw the Joe Cross video on YouTube and did a bit of research and decided to juice to help me get of the steroids faster as it's like a roller-coaster, you get the meds down then catch something and they go up, you get them down a bit then catch something else. Vicious circle. But I've looked into various vegetables now that have the natural alternative to some of the meds I'm on and I also know which ones can be detrimental.

I can honestly say I've never been more optimistic about curing myself and getting off them than I am now, it's become a bit of a pet subject but I think my skin etc has improved massively, I feel fantastic when I'm well. I also think I'd have been alot worse with my health without them. I missed having juices this weekend, it was like my body was craving them. I'm back on them today until the 31st and it felt great. My plan is to juice until I'm off the meds & lost the weight & even then I'll continue to have at least one a day when I can.

That's how good juicing is, it's all about getting the micro stuff in there in the best way your body can accept it.

I hope this helps and encourages you.

Shaz

Thanks Supernova (Shaz) for your in depth reply. I hope that you turn it all around, sooner rather than later. I know how the side effects of some of these drugs etc. are so debilitating, but also realise that they are a necessary evil.

Your confidence in juicing is highly encouraging and the wise words of your cardiologist are enlightening. The only foods I have heard about that may counteract the side effects of steroids are coconut oil and avocadoes. As an anti-inflammatory I put turmeric in every batch of juice I make. Turmeric’s efficacy is increased by the addition of black pepper.

Shaz, your optimism will speed your recovery.

                                                                                        

It was suggested recently that everyone over a certain age should be on statins to lower cholesterol. This is where the pharmaceutical companies add insult to injury. It has been acknowledged that their side effects definitely cause memory loss and possibly diabetes. 
                                                       
I have seen the effects of memory loss from statins on two of my friends. They came off statins and virtually immediately stopped struggling to remember what day it was. They have kept their cholesterol levels down by simply eating natural diet which includes simple foods such as oatmeal (a plate of porridge a day) and a couple of cans of three-bean salad a week. (Check out canned food to ensure there is no sugar or salt added.)

The medical profession ranges from brilliant to downright dangerous, do they seriously believe that we have gone so far up an evolutionary dead end that everyone in the country over a certain age should take statins? Look deeply into the side effects of any prescription drug you are offered.

Anyone offered a non prescription drug, in a pub or on a street corner; look deeply into your soul. I have lately seen more poker players than usual going for a quick high. Seeing some seemingly intelligent people imposing sickness on themselves, and their families, is not pretty to watch. They suffer with the famous blind spot syndrome “I won’t become addicted, this won’t happen to me.”  Every drug addict in the world suffered with this syndrome before becoming addicted.

Enough of the rant –

Today’s weight loss is negligible, down just 2% of a stone, due to the body rebalancing itself with water retention. The autonomic nervous system regulates weight loss by retaining fluid, this is so that the balancing mechanism in the middle ear has time to adjust to weight loss, specifically so that our spatial awareness catches up with our size and we don’t fall over as we walk; not being used to a sized down body.
 
I swim three to four times a week and since losing the initial stone I am putting more effort in. Hopefully some of the fat will turn back to muscle. If I can put in enough effort I may be able to replace each 7lb of fat lost with 1lb muscle gain.

Shaz’s encouragement has been taken on board and I will update tomorrow, in a much lighter vein, hopefully with a significant weight loss.

To Red Fox,

While it works for you continue - over the years I have attempted healthy eating but my gut always took charge over my brain because of sugar and carbohydrate addiction, which is rife in our society because of the amount of processed food we have all eaten.

When you get to exercise, short bursts of intensive exercise rev up your metabolism for 24 hours so little and often of more intense exorcise is the answer but take it easy to start with.

All the best   Sid

Fat cannot turn into muscle.

Fat is stored energy, which the body can convert to glycerol and then glucose to provide energy. You lose it by exerting yourself through exercise so your body needs more energy than you're getting from the foot you've eaten.

Muscle is made from protein - it's totally different.

Dear Andrew T,

Haven't eaten any foot. To be more explicit, I'll turn the fat into energy, use the energy to turn some protein, hopefully fillet steak, into muscle.

I'll correct myself, I have eaten some foot, after drinking champagne from her slipper I sucked Millicent Thurrock's toe. I forgot this incident as it left me with a bad case of athlete's mouth that I would rather forget.

Up at 4am - a vast change in well being. Finding a out a lot more about this diet as I go on. Weighed in this morning at 16 stone .77 - Three and a half pound lighter than when this thread started. Moving in the right direction. Will probably not post now until Monday when I hope to have hit my 7lb weekly target give or take a few ounces.

I will pick up where I left off the day before yesterday with a quote by Muhammad Ali.
“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life”
 
How do you get to eighteen stone to begin with, you don’t necessarily need to eat junk food to get there, you can eat too much good food.

My eating patterns changed dramatically throughout my life, but my early life set the pattern.

My mother and I spent a little time in prison, she was twenty- four and pregnant; it was December 1944 and she wouldn’t be giving birth to me for another four months. She found herself in this precarious position because she went absent without leave from the Royal Air Force.

For four years my mother was a cook in the air force, and cooked for the intake at Haverford West, at its busiest she and her team cooked for three thousand eight hundred airmen, well aware that this could well be the last meal they ever ate. Men we we owe our freedom to.

Corporal Goldie as she was known truly had a heart of gold.  My problem with her was; when she was eventually honourably discharged  she only knew how to cook in bulk. Subsequently I was seriously overweight as a kid and weighed fourteen stone at fourteen years old.

This was all about to change. My father could see that I needed to shape up so he sent me to the Polytechnic in Regent Street where I joined the boxing club.

Four years of hard training saw a big transformation, at eighteen I was a smooth moving, light heavyweight, 5ft 11in weighing 12stone 7lb. My trainers at the Polytechnic included Johnnie Carol, one of the best counter punchers the UK ever produced and the amazing Dave Thomas ABA Heavyweight Champion. I owe my life to Dave as what he taught me pulled me out of many tight spots throughout my existence.

Apart from having become half-handy at the game I was a mine of boxing information, a regular Nat Fleischer.

As mentioned my hero was Muhammad Ali, when he fought Sonny Liston for the first time he was an 8/1 underdog. I placed a full week’s wages, £15 on Ali (Cassius Clay at the time) and my confidence in him was well rewarded.

Around the time of the fight my compatriots in training and I, used to skip to the music of Duke Ellington’s, Take the A Train. We were emulating the fearsome Sonny Liston who, solemn faced, always skipped to this piece of music.

I have to digress here to mention that Duke Ellington’s – Take the A Train - is actually the handy work of Billy Strayhom. The story goes that Ellington liked Strayhom’s compositions and telephoned him to come to New York to collaborate with him on some music.

Strayhom asked Ellington for directions to where he lived. Ellington told him to take the A Train. Subsequently on the way to Ellington’s home Strayhom wrote this famous piece of music while travelling on the A Train.

Back to the Polytechnic Gym in Regent Street, there were two, intensive two-hour training sessions a week. Tuesdays and Fridays, in these hectic two hours we would use heavy bag, light bag, medicine balls bounced on flat stomachs, skip endlessly and spar for about half an hour. These two hours of perspiration would see a weight loss on the training session of 7lb. All quickly replaced by drinking an adequate amount of water. I never ceased to be amazed at this immediate and dramatic weight loss.

Apart from these workouts I used to run five miles twice a week, while having a physically intensive job. So how does a person go from super fit to super fat? Well it’s easy.

You only need to put on a just over a stone a decade to go from thirteen stone at twenty to eighteen stone at seventy; a weight rise of less than two pound a year.

Everybody’s weight history is different, there are the lucky ones who somehow managed to maintain a stable and healthy weight throughout their lives; they probably have no idea of how lucky they are.
For those of us who need to lose it – without food cravings it’s no big deal.

Nice bit of reminiscery there Sid boy.

I love to hear peoples stories, especially nicely presented potted histories like these.

More please.

Loving it Sid, very curious to know exactly what your intake is each day/week

Hi Sid,

Thank you for your reply & comments.  I've never been as happy & as positive about my life as I am now, some way to go I know but it's just a question of time.

I didn't know about the coconut oil - I have some somewhere which I'm not sure what to do with apart from cook a curry or make raw chocolate with, neither of which are options right now. I knew about the avocado, one of the plans I have to follow has a lot of recipes which either 1/4 or 1/2 avocado is listed, I try to stick to 1/4 due to the high calorie content but they provide good fats & blend into the green juices very well.

I'm really enjoying reading your story Sid & thank you for the tips.

Shaz

P.S. Is the turmeric you use fresh or powdered? I've read about it but fresh is non existent near me.

To Flushy, Once you reconcile your intake with your outtake, the body becomes balanced. My dearest friend Terry Cryer, once took a photograph of Satchmo, his face was covered in grease as he'd just eaten a plate full of lamb chops. Terry made some witty aside as he took the famous photo, (You can find it on Terry's internet site.) Satchmo's reply to Terry's comment was.
"The more you eat, the more you shit and the more you shit the thinner you get."

To Shaz, Glad to hear you are feeling so well, You can buy fresh turmeric in Indian and Chinese supermarkets. It freezes and loses none of its potency. It stains when you peel it, but the stains come off with lemon juice.

Went to Luton to play at Gentings for the first time, excellent place. Will update tomorrow, about the best laid plans.

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As they say in the trade, “If it’s Noah Boeken, don’t fix it.”

My Idea of writing a weight loss, diet book was stimulated by Joe Cross’ documentary, Fat, Sick And Nearly Dead. I believed that losing 1lb a day was the motivation people needed to go on a weight reducing diet.

I also realised that getting people to live on nothing but vegetable juice for the duration of the diet was only going to appeal to very few. In my wisdom, I was sure I could ameliorate the perceived daily grind of juicing (which is actually no grind at all, once you start feeling the benefits.)

The idea was simple (as most of my ideas usually are) it was to juice on alternate days, Juice one day and eat a no carbohydrate and no sugar diet the next.

Well I tried this method last week from Monday to Monday and managed to lose just over 2lb in a week as opposed to the 7lb a week I lost sticking to the juice diet, virtually religiously. So my idea of making it easier for the man and indeed woman in the street still produced results, but not dramatically enough for it to have the “Wow” effect that a diet book needs to be worth writing.

Of course, the initial weight loss I experienced and the euphoria of the amazing way I suddenly felt, enthused me to spread the good news. This was no clinical trial, just the experience of one man, and it’s a well known fact that initial weight loss is faster than ongoing weight loss.

The real good news is that Joe Cross’ method of destroying Carbohydrate and Sugar cravings is amazing. I will be back on juicing every day this week and next; until I fly to Florida for the Card Player Festival.

As Shaz has attested in this post, the feel good factor in this juicing diet is truly amazing. My personal feeling is; give juicing a chance and it could well cure whatever ails you. In the words of John Lennon, “All we are saying is give juicing a chance.”

All the information you need can be found on Joe Cross’ own website, where you can find a link to his multi-award winning documentary: Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. Two other great sources of information on Facebook and Youtube are Dr. Mercola and a juicing fanatic, Drew Canole who has taken over the mantle of Jack LaLanne. Look up Jack Lallane on Youtube and read about him on Wikepedia, he lived well into his nineties and was as strong as an ox until the end.

Having sold thousands of diet books when I owned City Books in Hove, I am totally aware that a diet book based on anything but the truth is a waste of time; that’s why the vast majority of diet books are total crap.  

One good diet book I would recommend is Leslie Kenton’s raw energy. Another great book, if you are suffering from Carbohydrate and Sugar Addiction, as most overweight people are is, Potatoes not Prozac by Kathleen DesMaisons.
I shall hopefully make my way to my desired weight goal without boring you regularly with a 1lb by 1lb account of my progress.

With my new found energy I intend to return to playing more poker, but still in my old lethargic style of just calling where most players would raise.

All the Best  El Sid,  Sid Harris.

Added on the advice of a friend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WuJrfYG7oh8
Dr. Robert Young tells it as it is.

Interesting documentary and definitely some food for thought in it. I might get myself a juicer and try a few of the juices on the site.

Hi Sid

So enjoying this diary well written and extremely interesting story.

Im still endeavouring with my cautious style and trying to avoid snacks which were mainly biscuits, still successful and 3 lbs dropped this week.

I was interested in your boxing days and tried the sport when 19 mainly to get fitter for the sports I loved rugby and football.

My weight when that age was in the region of 11st 4 lbs and height similar to yours a tad under 5 11. I didnt last long due to conflict of interests but the coach at the boxing club felt if I was to box competitively he wanted me to get below 10 10 and fight welterweight. As much as I tried I couldnt get the 1/2 stone off - dipped below 11st but bounced back up to become reasonably comfortable at 11 7.

Still cant believe I nearly hit 19 st and all seems to be on the belly. Its not what I want and Im very serious to ensure I get this weight reduced for health and feel good reasons.

Im interested in what will you do once you hit your target weight - stop juicing and eat a balanced diet?

Cheers

ps Im on the verge of buying a juicer but tbh a wee bit worried taking weight off so quickly wont help after reaching my desired goal.

Hi Sid,

Raw turmeric found - on the web of all places, will have to see what condition it arrives in.

Re diet books, it's a known fact that only a small percentage of dieters keep the weight off, every new diet books sell in millions probably to the same people who bought the last one. Sticking to the diet is one thing keeping it off is another. People have a tendency to go back to old eating habits. What can really make a difference is a lifestyle change or as I call it a foodstyle.

You may or may not of heard of Jason Vale (the Juice Master), he got into juicing because like Joe Cross he was overweight, and very unhealthy. He brought out the lose 5lb in 5 days & 7lb in 7 days juice plans & has just done an extended 28 day juice with a group of volunteers with various illnesses for a documentary to be shown next year.

I can recommend a the following books I have of his that I've read (there are more):

Slim4Life - Freedom from the food trap

Turbo-charge your life in 14 days

Both are about why diets don't work, why we get hooked on carbs etc and how to change by adding juicing to your life even in a small way and there are some recipes in both books.

The fresh & funky juice book is also good, mainly recipies.


I look forward to your next update Sid & what your eventual decision will be on how you will continue.

Shaz

Hey Sid

You know I've been following along (asking some questions on FB etc) so thought I'd pop by.

I've not really found much info on how to build juicing in to regular diet once you've stopped the full juicing reboot period.  I am not a salad eater at all, been eating a lot of protein (Chicken, steak, mince) the last year and very little carbs at all.  Carbs no actually make me feel really bloated and uncomfortable and I really don't miss em.

so, my queston really is, can I go for a 2 juice a day and 'normal' evening meal for example ?

(I would do a 2 monthly or something 3 day complete detox)

I am not particularly over weight (maybe a stone tops) but want to do this for the health benefits.

Keep posting, great read.

P.S. For anyone else, this is something I found watched and sent Sid yesterday....pretty enlightening I thought...enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJrfYG7oh8

To Red Fox, Souperova (Shaz) and last but not least Coggy. I'll answer in reverse order or thereabouts.

The documentary By Dr. Robert Young that Coggy mentions is really worth watching. I hope your juicer arrived Martin and you are up and running.

To Shaz, the fresh Turmeric is a different gravy. When it comes to books on diet, my own The Truth About Food, is still going strong, It's on Kindle and has good reviews.

With juicing, you need serious dedication, but that's not difficult due to how good you begin to feel. In less than a month I feel a genuine twenty years younger. It might sound like a gross exageration, but it's the truth. My sugar and carbohydrate addiction was sapping my strength. I was running on empty and needed to sleep every chance I could.

Played in Luton at the weekend, did not get to sleep until 3am. Sunday morning, was up and awake at 6am. Did not go to bed until 11pm. Sunday night. A month earlier I would have laughed if you said I could do this without a second thought.

To any older guys reading this, go out and buy a juicer, Blow out the Red Bull, Alcohol, Junk Food, Carbs, Sugar and all of the other crap and reclaim ten or twenty years of your life, within a month. Keep going for 6 months and you will be entering triathlons, no matter how shite you feel at the moment.

As for me, Shaz, I will play it by ear, one day at a time, and intuitively find my way back to being forty, It's twenty eight years since I was forty and I can't wait to get back there.

I will then buy a baseball cap and trainers and start four betting as if there is no tomorrrow and listen to a load of crap music on an I Phone, Sorry meant Rap Music.

I will expound on bet sizing, tell players what I put them on as I am the seventh son of a seventh son. Explain that I knew their range within ten minutes of sitting at the table and a load of other bollocks.

Growing old is insideous, you eventually believe that you ought to feel lethargic, you start looking at care homes and begin visiting funeral parlours, to see if there are any good deals. If you want to disperse a crowd of older people, start talking about death, nobody wants to discuss the next thing on the agenda.

Nobody has a good word about the ageing process; and rightly so. If you manage to acquire some wisdom it will fall on deaf ears. Everybody insists on making their own mistakes - they willl never believe that you made that mistake virtually a lifetime ago and could tell them how to swerve it.

I was a mug, in as much as, I have had a juicer sitting in my kitchen for ages and never bothered to use it. This makes me bloody angry with myself.

Fancy somewhere within the rant, I answered Red Fox' question too. 0h! "Don't lose weight too quiclly" is something of an old wive's tale. If you're getting more nutrients than you did when you were putting it on, you are in a win, win, situation. After the initial fast weight loss, the body slows weight loss naturally, that's what gets the goat of dieters. Your autonomic system remains in charge.

I might have said this somewhere within the post but it's worth repeating. If the pharmacutical companies could get their hands on this juice, they would serve it up at £199.99 a pint. You can make a pint for about two quid.

Juicing is a no brainer. I have seen too many friends who had everything to live for - destroy themselves for the sake of eating a load of crap - or sometimes, too much good food.

Give yourself a shot in the arm, go out and buy a juicer and a tenner's worth of veg. Spring green, courgette, cucumber, beetroot, tomato, carrot, lemon or lime wash it well and throw it in with the skin. Any green veg you can lay your hands on.

Bang in some gnger, garlic, turmeric, some black pepper. Sod the fact that it doesn't taste as delicious as a McDonald's shake. (Grat drink for wannabee diabetics.)

Man up and drink the juice. Do it every day for a fortnight, you will be hooked by then and you will feel a million dollars. Your brain will function so much faster that you might go out and win a million dollars, you are in a game where anything is possible.

Will sign off for a few days now, as I have a pile of work to catch up on, thankfully now I have the energy to steam through it.

All the best. El Sid,  Sid Harris.

Magnificent Sid - a juicer it is then  :)

<3

I've just ordered this from Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Andrew-James-Professional-Juicer-Cleaning/dp/B003Q82Q3C

It has good reviews and is about 25% of the cost incurred when buying one of Heston's.

To Marky and Red Dog,

Sorry about the hard sell, just wouldn't like anyone to experience Illness when it can be avoided.

This is not snake oil, just common sense. Instead of five a day you will be getting twenty five a day plus.

The nutrients will be as fresh as you like and buzzing when they hit your digestive system and straight into the bloodsream. Load yourselves with micro-nutrients for a couple of weeks. Feel fantastic and then post here and get everybody at it.

If you feel like something in the way of solid food, go for a bowl of porridge made with water, flavour it with peanut butter, Merridian do one that is 100% peanuts and it contains the paper thin red skins which are an important nutrient.
All calories are not equal - peanuts raise your metabolism so in small amounts they half-negate their own calorie content.

The only thing I would definitely add to your juicing diet is the occasional avocado - no need to juice it, and each day a handful (and no more than a handful) of almonds and walnuts. ~ Get hold of a copy of The Truth About Food - On Kindle - The fruit and vegetable glossary at the back will be useful when you're juicing. The book costs peanuts.

As you make the transition - if you get the munchies - Oat cakes with smoked salmon - three or four
A couple of hard boiled eggs on oat cakes - three or four. Will not do any damage, most likely you won't even need to in the initial stages. Get over the first crucial three days and you will be flying.

Nigella Lawson's, recently estranged and speedily divorced husband - Charles Saatchi - Lost a ton of weight living on just hard boiled eggs. I wouldn't advise this diet, you might end up trying to strangle the missus.

Essentially, you are on to a good thing, your intuition will do most of the work, and as Dr. Young says - "You won't  have to give up the food that is killing you - It will actually give you up."

Remember - when you give up tea or coffee, you will have a headache for a couple of days, once it's out of the system - no problem.

I wish you all luck with Juicing. Hopefully the silent majority that just watch and don't write will give it a go as well and reap the benefits. All the best   El Sid,  Sid Harris.

My Heston turned up today and being the veggie hating chicken i am, I tried 2 tonight.  (after having steak as I'm planning to start this properly at the weekend and do 3 or 5 days juicing only).  BTW, is steak occasionally gonna be ok Sid ? I loves a steak !!!

I went for a Green Strawberry first :

6 strawberries
1 apple
6-8 kale leaves (I've no idea about kale and it came in a bag i got so i threw in a handful)
2 celery sticks

This i thought was ok, but the celery to strong a taste for me.  I'll try again and maybe add a 2n apple

Then a lemon zinger :

chunk of lemon (i had half)
2 apples
2 carrots
ginger
ice

This was awesome, came out orange but super lemony.

My housemate tried both and prefered the 1st so different tastes will obviously like different juices.

It's also pretty fun atm, felt like a bloke using a power tool :-)

Will check out some more recipe's as got a recipe book free with my juicer but so far more than happy.  See how i feel in the morning, but right now, i'm super full up !!!

Did you cash Sunday Sid if you were there till 11pm Sunday ?

I was there till well after midnight, it was well worth it. I have a major leak to plug before I go to Florida, but it's only one leak (that I know of) and easily fixed - It's about putting down specific hands; regardless if the buy in is one hundred pound or thousands. The Re-entry mentality has not improved the game, proper freezouts are the way forward. Nowaday's when you need to change gear, it's as if the sychro-mesh gearbox was never invented.

When I wrote The Truth About Food, I had been a vegetarian for twenty five years, all that changed and I went back to occasionally eating meat. If you really want to enjoy a steak, don't eat one for twenty five years then try one.

High quality protein is fine, include a few almonds and walnuts (no more than a handful) in the mix.

Good luck with your juicing. Three days on and three days off, will work wonders. Mix it up a juice in the morning and an evening meal. Once carbohydrate and sugar cravings are gone it[s easy to do it any way you like.

To those of you who eat anything. Those liberty takers Tesco are charging 40p each for an apple, that is disgusting,
but on the other hand BHS who do a massive full English for £4 are charging half price between 9 and 10 am. There can't be any better value on the planet.

Support anyone who gives value, the rip off merchants don't deserve to be in business.

All the best. Sid Harris. El Sid.

"If you really want to enjoy a steak, don't eat one for twenty five years then try one."


 ;tightend;

Haha.

So what meals you suggest ? (remember not everyone can stomach salads and veggies etc)

I'm assuming that after 'x' amount of time you'll go back to eating at least 1 meal per day, so what meals are ok ?

I've noticed the stuff I've found re Joe Cross and Drew Canole, they don't really say much and certainly not outside of salads with fish (I'm not a fish lover either)

Or is the idea these juices whilst doing the good will also change your taste buds ? (I've always liked the look of a salad just couldn't eat one !!!)

To Coggy, Play it by ear, any inclination you had towards, carbs, sugar, refined foods will diminish dramaticall - you will make all the right choices without trying.

All the best Sid.

Have posted this link - just about says it all. http://fitlife.tv/day-65-1-day-and-a-lifetime-to-go-with-juicing/

 1lb a day is an absurd rate of weight loss. How many calories do you consume daily? How many grams protein/carbs/fat?

1lb a day is an absurd rate of weight loss. How many calories do you consume daily? How many grams protein/carbs/fat?

To Patonious, I'll leave it to you to work out how many calories and grams of protein, carbs and fat are in a couple of pints of fresh vegetable juice which includes fresh ginger and turmeric. All I can tell you is that this absurd weight loss brought me, and has brought many others back from the brink in a very short time.

Go tell Joe Cross that he's absurd. Tell the people who have swerved debilitating prescription drugs.

You strike me as a man with a point of view and It would be interesting if you could enlighten me as to why losing a pound a day (for as long as the body is willing to lose it) is absurd.

Is it as absurd as having a gastric band fitted? Or as absurd as deciding that we are all going to hell in a bucket so let's eat another dozen doughnuts and a family sized tub of Ice Cream.? Is it as absurd as doctors prescribing statins to every mug and his missus regardless of the side effect; which is early onset dementia? Is it as absurd in us living in a prescription drug driven culture where doctors have five minutes with a patient? just enough time to prescribe the fashionable drug of the moment? -

Many of the drugs prescribed ten years ago are now regarded as not remotely what they were purported to be. Will this not be the case in ten years time for many of the drugs being prescribed today?

This is the dictionary definition of absurd - just in case you used the wrong word in error.
absurd  (b-sûrd, -zûrd)
adj.
1. Ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable. See Synonyms at foolish.
2. Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or value in human life or in the universe.
3. Of or relating to absurdism or the absurd.

I don't think I'm being ridiculous, I don't think I'm incongruous, I don't think I'm being unreasonable. I think that the idea of eating fresh, live, micro nutrients in tangible quantities is of value to human life.

Enlighten Me,  Sid Harris

Hi Sid, I'm as suspicious of juicing as any other diet/lifestyle/etc plan..too much vested interests on behalf of the main advocates for my liking.

What would be wrong with simply eating a moderate amount of unprocessed food each day and using our legs frequently to move around... kinda like we're supposed to

To Nirvana:
Who are the vested interests in juicing vegetables and fruit. The vegetable and fruit growers on this planet (Bless Them)
Once you've bought the juicer - that's your only outlay. The reason for juicing is you could never get the amount of fresh micro nutrients into your system eating vegetables and fruit, your system would never handle the amount in its regular form.

In juice form it goes straight in live. twenty to thirty minutes after you have made the juice it's losing its potency big time. You have to live it to experience it. Everybody is entitled to be skeptical about diet fads.

As for using your legs frequently, that's fabulous if you have legs, for seven years of my life I hobbled about with a stick due to an interesting sports injury. I could not get my leg fixed until medical technology invented the Birmingham Hip, make no mistake, I may moan at the medical profession when they are being absurd, but when they do it right nobody praises them more than me. But medicine is much like poker, doctor's often have to go all in but it's not chips that are at stake, it's somebody's life.

My lack of exercise was enforced by my physical situation - a fate that befalls many.

All the best     Sid Harris

Was thinking of the advocates for it - books, endorsements etc. Course they're gonna be evangelical but maybe it's just altruism.

Prob not gonna try drinking neat veggie juice, prefer a glass of red generally with a nice balanced meal.

Good luck of course and interesting point on the legs, forgot some people dont have them

Sorry if I came across as dismissive. You seem to have had great success with this diet and sound happy with the results. My tone is directed more at the fact that you are recommending this diet without alluding to any of the basics of weight loss. Certainly if you are not familiar with counting calories or macronutirents then you are not cut out to be writing a book on the subject of weight loss. I am not a medical professional but I know that there is a healthy and an unhealthy way to lose weight. For example, when you eat in such a large caloric deficit without monitoring your fat and protein intake there is a good chance that you are deficient in one or both of these things. If you want to lose any muscle you have or have messed up hormone production whilst dieting then eating in a huge caloric deficit without monitoring protein/fat intake is a good way to go about it.

What I should acknowledge though is that some morbidly obese individuals are in need of rapid and extreme weight loss and this sort of diet may well be a good way to go. This is only in individuals who have a life threatening weight crisis. It is not advisable to embark on such a diet without at least consulting some sort of medical professional or educating yourself on the basics of weight loss beforehand. All other individuals would be better served to lose weight in a more sensible and controlled manner which I'l try and outline below.

The basics of weight loss;

There are 3 things you should know before you start any sort of diet;

1. Your BMR or Basal Metabolic Rate (how many calories you'd burn daily if you sat in bed all day)
2. Your TDEE or Total Daily Energy Expenditure (your actual daily calorie expenditure)
3. 3500 calories = 1lb fat.

To lose 1lb of fat a day your weekly caloric deficit would have to be 3500*7 = 24500kcal.

My BMR is 1830kcal and my TDEE is around 2800kcal (this has to be an estimate as activity levels will fluctuate, you can find this out simply by googling tdee and inputing your height/weight/age etc.)

In order to be in a 24500 calorie deficit I would have to eat nothing for just under 9 days (2800*9 =25200). This sounds ridiculous, and it is. It is possible to lose 1lb a day but what you are losing is lean body mass (muscle) as well as fat. This is due to a low protein intake. Now, that's fine because not everyone wants to lift weights and have big muscles but what I've pointed out is that it is impossible to lose weight this quickly without losing a decent amount of muscle. Whether you are bothered about that is a personal decision.

If you are bothered about this you would want to lose no more than 2lb a week in order to keep your protein intake high enough to maintain muscle. A widely accepted protein intake (no citation use google or ask any doctor/pt) for losing weight whilst maintaing muscle is around .8 - 1g protein/lb bodyweight.

For fats it's advisable to go no less that around .4g/lb bodyweight. Fats are essential for hormone production/joint repair/skin/nails/hair and so on.

Carbs are not essential in the way that protein/fats are but most people would go nuts and feel very lethargic without them. I'd advise people to work out their protein/fat requirement and fill the rest with good sources of carbohydrate. 'Good' sources come from wholegrain sources and fruit which contain plenty of fibre and essential micronutrients/vitamins.

So using myself as an example in order to lose 2lb/week I'd have to be eating in a deficit of 1000 calories per day (1000*7 = 7000, 7000/3500 =2). TDEE - 1000 = 1800kcal. I'm 12st 5 (173lbs) so going by the guidelines set out above I'd be looking to eat around 170g protein per day and 70g fat.

carbs 1g= 4 cal
protein 1g= 4 cal
fat 1g= 9 cal

So my calories from protein would be 170*4= 680
calories from fat would be 70*9 = 630

680+630 = 1310. 1800 - 1310 = 490

This leaves us with 490 'spare' calories that we can use for carbs. 490/4 = 122g carb
Our overall daily macronutrient plan for an 1800 calorie diet would therefore be - 170g protein/122g carbs/70g fats.

- This is a very simple explanation of how calorie consumption works and how a diet should be designed, in my opinion.

I'm very happy for you having lost all that weight. If more people were as health conscious as you then regardless of how they go about it they would probably lead a healthier and longer life. What I have a problem with is people recommending diets when they don't explain why and how it works. Yes it works because you are eating only fruit and veg and eating in a huge caloric deficit. I could eat 3 big macs a day and lose weight but that wouldn't make it a good diet.

All that said, I think the juicer concept is interesting and probably a good way to get some essential micronutrients in to the system. What is your favourite/number one concoction?

To Patronius,

If the basics of weight loss could be explained to people as beautifully as you have, we would have no overweight people on the planet. You basically take your BMI measurment from your CBA syndrome, add the smell of some freshly baked bread and the sound a steak sizzlling on the griddle and your three golden diet rules are about as useful as relative hand values in a game of poker.

I see by some of your previous posts that you believe poker can be turned into an ongoing equatioon and with the benefit of retrospective analysis you have set yourself up as someone who can figure out where millions of poker players go wrong every day. The operative word here is believe.

It could well be that the poker advice you give, so freely, is putting some players in mortal danger, you might take a natural, intuitive poker player whose unconcious was capable of working out if he was in front or behind in any given situation (who did not give a toss if he didn't get it right every time) and fill his head with a few pseudo elaborate theories that destroy him, send him to Carey Street and leave his wife and kids starving. Of course you always have your get-out clause in these situations. You can blame the variance.

Might well be that you are "not cut out" for giving poker advice as you have no idea of the abysmal life changing effects you might be engendering.

As for me, "not being cut out" for writing on ths subject of weight loss, some would agree with you - but on the other hand, many of the thousands of people who bought - The Truth About Food - The Anti Atkins Diet -and believe it helped them, would tell you a very different story. I took medical advice abut The Truth About Food, I sent it to six hundred GP's in London for feedback- If I was to be found wanting in the, "not cut out for" area, I would have found out big time.
                 
       What doctors told me about Atkins  From the Argus, Thursday 15th July 2004

Before starting a diet, consult your doctor. The warning is given on every eating plan and diet sheet.
But how many people actually visit their doctor for a check-up before embarking on new eating regime?
Sidney Harris, author of The Truth About Food - the Anti-Atkins Diet, decided to find out.
Mr Harris, from Hove, wrote to more than 600 GPs to ask them how many patients consulted them before starting a diet.
He also asked if they would recommend the Atkins Diets to their patients.
The answer was a resounding "no" to Atkins and the medics revealed that fewer than five per cent of dieters consult their doctor before cutting out calories.
Mr Harris, whose book condemns the Atkins Diet as "a form of self-cannibalism", says the results of his survey are further proof the diet is not good for you.
He said: "We had an excellent response to the survey which shows more than 90 per cent of doctors would not recommend the Atkins Diet to their patients.
"And, despite the recommendations to always see a doctor before dieting, people rarely do.
"Warning people to see a doctor is an easy get-out for the diet people. They know people will just go out, buy the book and start dieting."
Mr Harris sent out the questionnaires to London doctors because of the diversity of the area. He said he was thrilled at the results from the survey.
One of the doctors who responded, Dr OG Agbim, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, said the Atkins Diet was unnecessary because "nature got it right to begin with" and suggested all doctors' surgeries should consider stocking Mr Harris's book.
Mr Harris wrote his book in an attempt to combat the near-hysteria over the Atkins Diet, which he believes can seriously damage your health.
The book, published by As-Is, has almost sold out of its first 25,000 print run. A second edition, with comments from the doctors and new findings, is planned for Christmas.
Mr Harris is also closely watching the progress of Florida businessman Jody Gorran who is suing the Atkins company, claiming the 1999 version of the diet made his cholesterol soar from 146 to 230 in two months and eventually caused a heart artery to become 99 per cent clogged.


  Watch this youtube link for instant enlightenment  - 
 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6aNzFYHyz8

 "I wouldn't have put it on, unless I was good at it."  All the best. Sid Harris, El Sid.

Pretty much.

Subtle genius.

Loving this thread, great read.

Pretty sure that juicers would be a benefit to many if it gets them going from no fruit/veg intake to some.

I invested in a nice juicing machine, was a bit disappointed to read a short while back that they were getting a negative press. It said basically that on the one hand the major benefit of the veg/fruit fibre, namely creating calorieless work and bulk for your digestive system, disappeared because of the removal of most of the fibre. Also, this blitzing caused the sugar in the food (and it's really high in fruits, and in the likes of the aforementioned carrots) to be really liberated in drink form, creating a really fast sugar absorption in the stomach (would normally be seriously slowed by unblitzed fibre). As well as creating complications for weight-loss attempts, it can also I'm guessing increase your risk of Diabetes and Kidney problems.

I suppose a lot of these downsides would be reduced by blending instead of juicing, but only in part.

"Health" drink

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I've started eating a lot of the rice disk things, some of them salted, some of them caramel coated. They stop the bingeing for me. I tend to top them with creme fraiche and some tasty condiment during a proper diet. They're getting a bad press now too (GI problem?) but they seem to work for me.

I've seen a lot of talk of the merits of the two-days /week fast. But I don't have the stomach for it. Would be interested in your thoughts. Good luck.

That's brilliant!

I have nothing of value to add to this thread.
Just wanted to say what a great read it is and finding your stories fascinating.
More please

Like reading one of my own posts in the 'Blonde will make you thin' thread :D

When I was lifting a lot, as well as eating properly.I prescribed very much to these methods, and used to have fun with 'IIFYM'

I always used to operate in a 1k deficit per day, measuring out the rice/veg/chicken to the gram, and if I wasn't lazy I would go find some of my old posts :D


I like the idea of getting some nutrients in this way though, because I'm very much a meat and potatoes guy that has never been that fond of my 'greens'

I'll most likely just ping a couple protein shakes in alongside some juices, and then bang a chicken/fish/steak with some sweet potato or stir fry veg at night.

Thanks for liking the thread, to each his own when it comes to diet. Having met many experts on the subject and tried many different angles on diet. I will stick with the humble Australian Joe Cross.

There's a quote I used in The Truth About Food, by Jackie Mason, "Metabolism, It's somewhere in the body but nobody knows exactly where it is."

Mason's quote just about sums it up. Eating is a very different experience for the odd autistic poker player and the overwrought house wife looking for some comfort; especially if she is married to said individual. (sad can be transposed for said here)

Because so much crap has already been written on diet in the last hundred years, obfuscation in the future is a given.

All the best Sid Harris  El Sid.

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Until I hear otherwise I'm taking this as the foundation of my new weightloss attempt. I'm not fat, just 40 and can't shift that last bit. I do have a 6 pack, it's just tucked away behind a duvet and the rest of the shopping at the moment.

I buy vegetables, which lead to some good weightloss and muscle toning. Stock up, carry back from shops, put in fridge, eat vastly more interesting chocolate products, rebag, carry to bin, repeat. 2000 calories gone, right there.

I have taken the liberty of copying an article in today's mail. I have been trying to explaiin to people the for the last few years that pharmacutical companies cannot get the edge on evolution and produce a cure-all, for one and all. If you are on statins and you doctor tells you it's the only way, you might do well to ask the advice of another doctor or maybe two or three doctors.

The brain is composed of mainly fat, it needs good cholesterol to function. No cholesterol, leads to poor brain function and you end up not knowing what your hole cards were - If the following hand looks like a pair of aces to you - change your doctor.  Aspades 4s.

Or at least consult one of the hand analysts on this site. I have it on good authority that some of the hand analysts on this site do palmistry, on the side, and can actually tell you which games to swerve completely. So apart from retrospection and introspection they can actually improve your erection, by helping you to avoid the stress of travelling to a venue whre you are doomed to failiure and the ensuing psychological damage.

Four million patients on statins don't need them: Half of those on cholesterol-reduction pills risk side effects with little chance of benefit, doctors warn
By STEPHEN ADAMS
PUBLISHED: 02:33, 18 August 2013 | UPDATED: 02:34, 18 August 2013

Up to four million people have been wrongly placed on statins, putting them at risk of side effects with little chance they will benefit from the drugs, doctors warned last night.
More than half of patients put on the cholesterol-lowering pills to prevent  a first heart attack or stroke are in fact ‘ineligible’ for the treatment, a  Birmingham University study found.
It suggests that more than £100 million a year is being wasted because GPs have a scatter-gun approach to prescribing the drugs.
Not so great after all? More than half of patients put on the cholesterol-lowering pills to prevent a first heart attack or stroke are in fact 'ineligible' for the treatment, a Birmingham University study found
Not so great after all? More than half of patients put on the cholesterol-lowering pills to prevent a first heart attack or stroke are in fact 'ineligible' for the treatment, a Birmingham University study found
Over the past decade the number of people in Britain on statins has risen from five to eight million. The drugs lower the risk of heart attack and stroke in those at medium and high risk, but they can also produce side effects in up to a fifth of takers.
These can include muscle pain, fatigue, stomach upsets, sleep disturbance and erectile dysfunction.
 
The study, based on data from 365,000 patients at 421 GP practices and published in the journal PloS ONE, found six in ten statin prescriptions to prevent first heart attack or stroke go to ‘ineligible patients’, such as  middle-aged people with raised cholesterol but no other risk factors.

Side effects of statins can include muscle pain, fatigue, stomach upsets, sleep disturbance and erectile dysfunction.
And among those who are meant to get the pills, such as the elderly, only one in four does so.

Dr Tom Marshall, from the Birmingham School of Public Health and Population Science, said: ‘These are useful drugs but they are not getting to the right people. 'There are lots of people who could benefit who are not on them, and there are lots of people who are on them who will not benefit.’

About a quarter of the population over 40 are on statins. They are the most widely prescribed type of drug in the country by a large margin. In England alone, statins cost the NHS almost £300 million in 2012.

Dr Marshall said too many GPs were putting patients on statins merely because they had a high total cholesterol reading. This was particularly the case among 55 to 70-year-olds.

Dr Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London, said part of the problem was that GPs were given cash incentives to check people’s cholesterol level, meaning they focused on that and failed to make a broader assessment of risk.

‘Financial incentives are distorting clinical medicine,’ he warned.

The answer to most cholesterol problems is a change of diet - Oatmeal literally drags bad cholesterol out of the system.

Leave the last word to Joe Cross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=e5khfK_AOEc

ll the best. Sid Haris  El Sid.

Sid, How you get your juicing done ?

Do you work from home ? as with work I'm struggling to get juices done without getting up an hour earlier and then having to keep a juice for lunch (and storing aint as good I know).

To Coggy, 

Yes I work from home so I have the time to do the juicing. but all things being equal it's a pain in the arse job that becomes a labour of love.

The feel good factor is so acute that it would be worth you getting up half an hour earlier to do the deed. There was a big article in the Mail's You magazine at the weekend, It seems that juicers are in short supply as demand for them is so high. It mentions Joe Cross, amazingly eight million people have watched his video.

I seem to be involved at least every other day juicing, and sometimes do three or four days on the trot, the truth of it is nothing good comes easy, and messing about with a juicer for twenty minutes or so, does reap amazing benefits.

Keep at it, you know it makes sense,

All the best  Sid.

The lazy man's way of getting the message across, let a couple of experts do it for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL7YKya_R1ROttKvb5rhpMxi3BbUrrpK26&v=xGyf27CocxM&feature=player_detailpage&t=4

All the best Sid Harris   El Sid

When you're losing your 1lb a day, are you primarily getting rid of it through number 1s or number 2s?

At a guess, I would say you're getting rid of it via 2s, but they're likely to be disguising themselves as number 1s :)

Tony listens to a lot of shite disguised as number ones.

In which case isn't it a lot of fluid loss, a loss that's simply replaced by drinking water - as with any other crash diet?

I was only joking, haven't a clue what happens to your digestive system when you juice it up.

Detox to me has always been no takeaways, drinking lots of water, and eating chicken, steak or fish, with sweet potato, or stir fried vegetables...

To Marky, you will only appreciate your digestive system in retrospect, once it's poggered all manner of strange things will happen to you in the crap department. Some aliments are reversible but many aren't.

There are millions of silent sufferers, men in particular, of all manner of illness.

Watch a few Jay Kordich videos on youtube and give him a chance to convince you. If you take the standpoint of "Nobody can convince me of anything". Someday (propably today) you might miss out on some interesting information that could enhance your life.

You could easily say that Kordich has always had the agenda of selling juicing machines, but we all have an agenda. Arms  and drugs dealers (local or international) have a dangerous agenda - I would suggest that anyone promoting a healthier lifestyle has something approaching a worthwhile agenda. 

My digestive system has a tag team partner in MS,  and between them they do their utmost to keep me on my toes :D

I'm a very open minded person Sid, so will try anything once and most likely again if I shouldn't! 

My Andrew James juicer has arrived today as it happens, so am in the process of compiling a shopping list. I don't think I'll be going full blown juicing, but to tip my toe in I shall be trying a few of the recipes listed in Joe's reboot.

Sid, where did you learn the word "poggered"?

Ha!

I know why you asked that. I googled the word as soon as I read it.

;)

To Marky and Red Dog,

Firstly to Marky, so absolutely pleased that you have bought a juicer and hope that within a few days on the green stuff etc. you  feel a major difference in your well being. (The dark green leaves on spring green are brilliant at the moment to produce the elixir you need.)

The amazing side effect with juicing is the surge of optimism that it brings with it. I would like to do a clinical trial with one hundred pessimists, on juice, and see if the glass is half full or half empty at the end of a fortnight.

To Red Dog, There are a lot of fancy notions as to the origin of the word poggerred. It just so happens that the earliest use of the word was in the village of Stoke Poges in the thirteenth century.

A knight of the realm Robert Pogeys had married the heiress of the parish, Amicia of Stoke - Within a few months of the nuptials Robert Pogeys developed the clap - he went to a well known apothecary of the time - Basil Renshaw at the Cock Marsh Tavern.

Renshaw gave Sir Robert the bad news, it was definitely the clap. The distraught knight begged Renshaw to keep the matter to himself as it would interfere with his favourite past time which was whoring.

Renshaw administered a well known cure of the time (which is too dangerous to mention here, as anyone reading this who has contracted the clap might decide to try it in an attempt to avoid the embarrassment of visiting their GP.)

Rensahw's cure was short lived and Sir Robert succumbed to all manner of scabs and the like, in fact he became totally parashivik. It prompted Amicia his wife, the original carrier of the filthy disease, who showed no outward signs of the malady, to abandon him, her final words to Sir Robert Pogey's were, "You are of no further use to me Sir, you are truly poggered."

Next time you are in Buckinghamshire, visit Stoke Poges, as they are all conversant with this story in the ale houses.

All the best,   Sid Harris,  El Sid.

To Kinboshi.  This takes up close and personal to a new level. I haven't been monitoring my excrement and urination levels as, real life doesn't give me the time. However, there are some interesting facts knocking about on how much waste our bodies secrete.

The average fellow passes approx. 120 gallons of urine a year as opposed to secreting approx 60 gallons of sweat. The big eye opener is that we produce 20 gallons of tears a year which evaporate into the atmosphere after they have stopped our eyes from drying out.

As for excrement the average for a human being is 1lb of crap a day, this sounds innocuous until you multiply it by the 7 billion, or so, people on earth, In essence the human race is producing over 22 billion tons of crap a year, this makes my contribution hardly worth thinking about.

While on the subject of crap, I will re-post something I wrote on the Camel's thread " Things I wish I knew" It was in connection with the weight of crap.

Crap is light and due to the time space continuum will get lighter as time goes on. You will note that their are more floaters than there used to be as gravity slowly loses its power. Crap weighs less in the Arctic than in the Antarctic

The Germans are highly interested in crap, they like to join their wives in the Schmidthous to watch the proceedings and evaluate the outcome. The Japanese have invented a small underwater camera fixed inside the toilet base which shows each new piece of crap leaving the body and plummeting down into the water - This piece of equipment is available on E Bay and is known as Kami Carzy Anus Zoom; don't buy one secondhand.

My dad used to tell the most wonderful crap jokes the following one was my favourite as a kid: A guy is sitting on a bus and asks the fellow next to him "Have you just shit?" The fellow replies, "Yes!" - " Well why don't you get off the bus? - The fellow replied, "I haven't finished yet."

I suggest you buy a set of digital scales - they will show the difference.

All the best,  El Sid    Sid Harris.

Great story Sid.

Will you be bringing out your own juicer soon, Sid? :)

To Celtic, No juicer from me, somewhere along the line there might be a book, probably called: Joe Cross Saved My Life.
but I have invented a piece of exercise equipment, I took a patent out on it last year, it's called The Stretch Specific.

Lightweight and highly portable (The kind of thing that sells by the million on shopping channels) Guarantees that no injury is caused by lack of a warm up in any form of sport. A ten minute workout on this piece of equipment will keep anyone (regardless of their age) in condition.

It can perform most of the exercises associated with a ski cross trainer, but the whole piece of equipment weighs less than 6lb. and when manufactured will sell for less than £15. (Truly a working man's price)

If there are any sports orientated entrepreneurs out there who want a piece of the action, private message me.

Whoever is interested will have to put in some spade work in turning out a viral, preferably with a well fit young lady (possibly a celebrity) putting the equipment through its paces. (I'm not being sexist, that's the way these things are sold)

The range of exercises the Stretch Specific is capable of producing is quite unique and its portability and price make it a sure fire winner. Any mover and shaker, with some sort of a track record in sport, who's willing to take a punt on an original idea, could develop a handsome income.

I was there in Paddington Street, when Dave Prowse, (Darth Vader) was starting out, selling Bullowrkers, he and his four assistants couldn't pack and post them quickly enough. Dave made a small fortune then - this kind of item is always in demand. (Dave endorsed the bullworker and had a franchise from the parent company)

All the best,  Sid Harris   El Sid.

It was a serious question.

When you lose weight, almost all of the weight loss is via the toilet. If you're losing a pound a day it will be either through increased urination (which is how weight is usually lost on crash diets and then replaced when the person is properly hydrated) or it's all crap.

To Kinboshi, my problem is, I'm not a serious guy, I can't get serious about crap, I just want to be happy, it's not always easy to achieve - I have strange beliefs, I believe in pure joy - whenever you can get hold of it.

I can tell you I had a decent crap this morning but I just flushed it and forgot about it.

This morning when I woke up, it just so happened that I remembered Anne Bancroft's words, "Who gives a shit?" and felt sad for Mel Brooks, living on without this amazing woman. Notwithstanding, that time heals and it has been some time.

I know that there are a lot of other people living on without their partners and for those who truly loved this is the most tragic thing.

Pure joy is different for all of us, for me it exists in timing and delivery, if you can add the chemistry of two devoted people in love, to the mix - it really is pure joy. I live to continuously flirt with the missus, add some humour and you have the Mel Brooks syndrome - pure joy.

The following clip on youtube is Mel Brooks favourite piece of work. You have to see the original film To Be or Not To Be. - to appreciate the original dance routine.

I love it when the funny guy gets the girl; this is Karma at its best. The first time he met Anne Bancroft, (The amazing Mrs. Robinson; one of the greatest actresses of her time) he said to her "I'm Mel Brooks" she replied, "Who gives a shit?"

Watch this Youtube for pure joy, the begining is a little contrived, but once they get into the song - everything in the universe makes sense. http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLIrjJ2esJ4Qk0jVEOGsl62vDdFNND9WLU&v=Saz0FrMvlq8&feature=player_detailpage#t=6

So the weight loss is predominantly crap then?

To Kinboshi -

Namna fulani tuna got yakidhoofishwa katika crap, kwa namna fulani tuna kupata nje yake. Tafadhali kuchukua neno la mwisho juu ya somo na sisi wote kuondoka.

All the best - Sid Harris   El Sid.

Just wanted a sensible answer, wasn't after any crap ;)

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One of the reasons I came to the conclusion that The Diary was in the bargain basement section is because, although I have tried hard to navigate there, it's not particularly easy to find.

It could well be that my computer an Amstrad 1512, is at fault but it manages to do most things on the internet as I have a florexia  power booster model 3.5 attached to it.

If somebody could give me directions of how to get to The Diary - I will be intrigued as to why I couldn't find it.

On another note. At exactly the same time as Alan Sugar was cooking beetroot in the East End, I was cooking beetroot in the West End.

The great secret to cooking beetroot, to ensure it doesn't lose its colour is to throw in an onion. I'm sure that Sugar knew this as not much seems to have got past him. I daresay, if he knew what was going on here, he'd resurrect the company and produce an Amstrad Juicer.

Glad to see that in the fullness of a couple of hours much of the unpleasantness has dissipated. Not sure about my earlier notion about the incest though, might still be prevalent, albeit slightly.

All the best,  Sid Harris    El Sid.

Enough, enough Kinboshi bashing, I don't care if he leaves his room like a schmidthouse or if he momentarily became obsessed with crap, all I am saying is "Give Kinboshi a chance."

Yesterday I was harsh and unfeeling, today is a new day and I awake a better man; benevolent and feeling good about the world.

I also have some interesting information for many of you who (due to sitting long hours at the poker table) suffer with the Farmer Giles, (Hemorrhoids) not difficult to get rid of with the modern elastic banding technique used by the medical profession (outpatient orientated) (invented in Russia) but there is an easier way, and a way of those without them, not contracting them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pYcv6odWfTM

Once you have seen this video you could easily use an upside down plastic bowl to solve the problem.

Many suffer unnecessarily with the farmers (an extremely debilitating complaint) the only thing in its favour, for the sufferer is, when playing poker these guys are hard to read as they are constantly pulling strange faces and shuffling about in their seats, it makes it hard to tell if they have it or not.

I am still a believer in the future dictating the past and this thread seems to have aligned itself to crap, so be it.

All the best Sid Harris    El Sid.

What are your views on the suggestion juicing may be linked to episodes of schizophrenia?

I got completely confused with some of the posts going on for a bit there !!! haha

Links to what your on about please Redsgirl ?

You at rondy tonight Sid ?

I think Sid has gone to Florida for a hioliday, but he'll doubtless reply upon his return.

Just a poor attempt at a joke Coggy, don't mind me!

To Redsgirl,

I would class myself as a schizoid as I write under a dozen different pseudonyms, in more than one language.

As with most  complaints the grey area between multiple personality and schizophrenia is further muddied each time an expert steps into the mire.

I am fortunate in that all the characters I manifest are, invariably, benign and helpful.

My schizoid beginning goes back to childhood, but this story is my ace in the hole. I have been working on a book about it for years; hopefully, I will compete it before the biblical three score and ten.

One per cent of the world population is schizophrenic, I would hazard a guess that for every diagnosed schizophrenic there are half a dozen that aren't; so you probably, inadvertently, know quite a few.

Schizophrenics make excellent  bigamists.

I'm in two minds, about juicing and episodes of schizophrenia - could be that juicing is the cure.

To Coggy,

As Tikay mentioned I'm off to Florida early next week for a fortnight.

Message to any local burglars, Deaf Albert, his mother and Creepy Vinny will be staying here. I wouldn't want to tangle with Deaf Albert's mother.

Hope your juicing is going well Coggy and that you continue to persevere; hopefullly you will be feeling major results in a week or so.

Doh  ;frustrated; !!! I knew I shouldn't post in public places when this tired !!!

I'm sort of half hearted atm Sid, still trying to figure out veggie ones I can stomach !!!  Got a shopping load in yesterday though and I'm off work next week so more time for doing this.

I'd loved to see somebody post where they show their daily diet when just mixing juices in.  I mean, one where it aint all just salads or juices as that wont be happening with me ever !!!

To Coggy, It isn't easy for everyone, hope you find the way through.

Sid,

If you wish to reply to a specific Post, such as the one to Coggy, you can use the little blue "Quote" Button, which is above each Post, right hand side, next to "Modify" "Delete" & "Split".

That's why I will be doing Coggy, I will most likely post my daily food intake on the 'Blondes thin' thread mate.

I definitely don't think living through a straw is for me :D

Sid - When you say you add Tumeric and black pepper in to your juices, do you just springle in at the end then stir ? surelly you don't put through the Juicer ?

(unless I've got the wrong tumeric !!!!)

Also, excuse my ignorance here (never been a veggie eater) what exactly are spring green ?

could you post link on here when you do please ? I'll follow along

FWIW, the fruit ones I've made have been lush, could drink them all day and they very filling, but I'm aware that it's the veggie ones that are more important

There you go Coggy.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=56169.0

The link takes you to Page 1, probably best if you skip to the end = page 264!

We have all used that thread. I'll be back on there next week, too. Sigh.

Using that thread as motivation, I lost 2 stones earlier this year. I've now put the bloody lot back on. And forget juicing for me, I don't eat vegetables. Secret of my health & longevity, imo. I always think vegetables are for girlies.

To all and sundry,

Spring green is a form of cabbage, it's main attribute for the purpose of juicing is it's very green and vibrant this time of the year.

Initially when I started juicing a few weeks ago, I was making far too much of the stuff. It's easier to handle if you keep the volume under a pint.

Re. Tumeric, if it's dried sprinkle it on at the end. If you are lucky enough to find some fresh root bang it into the juicer.

I know I always resort to posting Youtube links - this next one is particularly interesting when it comes to taking small steps to achieve your goal. The speaker - Dr. Robert Maurer - is fascinating, not only for the content but for his speed of delivery.

As for vegetables being for girlies, it just so happens that the girlies are much tougher than the guys these days. They bring up kids singlehanded and can drink most men under the table.

For those interested in contextual accuracy an innocuous piece of this thread went missing to preserve a fragile ego. Probably not an unusual event. Hate being bound and gagged - no good for the IBS.

A piece of this diary went missing because you were very rude to someone who was totally innocent and just trying to be helpful.

The only fragile ego here appears to be yours.

Keep the tanks tight. They can dish out but they don't like it up them.

Nothing you have posted, or others have posted on your threads, has been deleted. I have even double checked by going through the list of all deleted posts in the last fortnight

The thread where you complained is locked and can be found at http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=62062.0

If there is anything there that you think needs to be on this thread, then let us know and we can move it across

To Tight End,

First you see the mountain, then you see the mountain then you don't. Either Red Dog's right or you are; unfortunately one of you must be mistaken. You will have to accept that, even from a fragile ego.

Miraculously, the piece that was removed, according to Red Dog, because it was "Very Rude" suddenly reappeared. Who took it off in the first place and who replaced it, that's the question?

Colin Crompton just contacted me through Betty Shine, a clairvoyant who died a few years ago, saying that there was a meeting of the comitteeee. I say bring back the wheeltappers and shunters if you want to hear "Very Rude*

If you had the foresight to let these fragile egos fight their own corners, they would toughen up and be capable of some kind of banter, instead of resorting to one line reiterations - or shouting "NURSE" repeatedly.

I would not say anything on here that I would not say to anyone face to face. I don't know if a lot of these characters have even met anyone face to face.

I don't actually care how your inner sanctum works, or if it even matters, I just like to see fair play. It's far from unusual for me to make a blunder, I do it all the time, when I do, I put my hands up. It's the twats that can never be wrong that you want to beware of.  (If twat was too rude for you, please accept my apology in advance.)

All the best, Sid Harris   El Sid.

Sid.

Nothing has been removed. Not then, not now, not ever.

NONE of your Posts have been removed, deleted, or Edited by the Mods.

Every Post you made remains on view, all of them in their entirety. Some are still on the other thread, the rest are here.

Then both Red Dog and my good self have blundered, I put my hands up, wrong again. Sorry to have got you all out of bed.

All the best,  Sid Harris,  El Sid.

Aren't you in Florida Sid?

In which case, shouldn't you be out having the first steak of the day by now?

To Marky,

Florida tuesday, if all goes well.

No problem Sid, I accept your apology.

Marlon Brando once glued me to a yak, but that's another story

Have a fry up, juiced if necessary, you'll feel better.


Kind Regards, Tom McCready, RED-DOG.

I heard the story about you and Marlon Brando, It's when you both auctioned for the film Deliverance, Burt Reynolds got the part that Brando wanted because Brando asked for too much money, and thankfully Ned Beatty got the part you were after. You had heard that there was some wanton sex going spare in the movie; but didn't realise that you would be on the receiving end of it. Is it true that a shiver runs up your spine every time you hear, Duel for Guitar and Banjo?

Brando iterated his greatest line when a mass of reporters turned up at his house after Christian, his son, had killed Brando's son in law. He said, "Tragedy has come to my door." indeed it had. Brando's eating disorder was second to none excavated by the catalogue of family tragedies that visited him from that moment.

Deliverance is acknowledged as the only decent film Burt Reynolds ever made; he did make a poker film called Deal. It should have been called, No Deal. You see more creativity on this site on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, in the bad beat section.

As for Ned Beatty, he was a no nonsense grafter, no fragile ego here, he should have got Oscar for best actor, let alone best supporting actor in Network. Can't remember offhand the movie in which he made a totally riveting ten minute speech, which must have picked him up one of his many awards.

But the interesting part still remains, the now you see it now you dont bit.

A piece of this diary went missing because you were very rude to someone who was totally innocent and just trying to be helpful.

At least enlighten us to the helpful innocent who I was very rude to? I will send him a basket of fruit from Fortnums to make up for my rudeness.

Time is running out, I am about to put my life savings on the line in Florida, I have nothing to lose, I will be the terminal at the terminal, so I don't give a shite.  Enlighten me before I go.

All the Best,  Sid Harris,  El Sid.

If you don't give a shite there's not much point is there?

Enjoy Florida

To Red Dog,

Do you think anybody gives a shite, you have created a rule for yourself and a rule for any poor bugger who wanders onto this site. All you have done, by avoiding a straight and honest answer is devalued your integrity and the integrity of the site. (That's the dropping of the H; shite without the H).

I have nothing against you personally, at least I have met you in real life and you come over as a decent and above board character. Somebody on this site spoke of character assassination. Why would you want to do that to yourself?

There is no shame in being wrong, maybe you jumped to a conclusion, there's no shame in that. The shame lies in avoiding the simple issue and making it look like you weren't mistaken and that others are in the wrong. That is hardly fair.

I would far sooner that you and I were both in the wrong, than it was passed on to others by means of evasion, just to save another frail ego.

If I am accused of pedantry here, that's fine, much of the ethos of the place is a pedant-fest.

This is all constructive criticism which will improve the Blonde experience in the future.

I'll make an educated guess that there are many who attempted to say something on this site and came up against one clique or another and never bothered again.

By preserving, and protecting, the hard core cliques, for fear of losing the few, you would have lost multitudes. If you ever find the time to read Elias Canettis, Crowds and Power, you will get a notion of where you are going wrong.

All the best Sid Harris. El Sid.

You back Sid ?

how the trip go ?

Did you continue juicing whilst away or have a lapse/sabatical ?

Thought of you as I made my first ever 'juice'

I hope you're well, wherever you are, squire ;)

Have to say that this, for me, was another example of a great thread on blonde.  I think that there were some superbly thoughtful posts from multiple contributors starting with Sid's passionate preaching of the benefits of juicing to the queries from others as to the beneficial claims of juicing.  Personally, I learnt a great amount from the debate  especially Patonius's calorie deficit post.  The only disappointing aspect for me was how it somehow ended like many threads here with some form of dispute, snide comment, fallout etc. but I guess that's forums for you and to some extent part of the blonde entertainment package.  To some extent reading this thread encouraged me to amplify a healthy eating drive that I had started around the same time. Since then I've cut out carbs (particularly bread and pasta), stopped eating sweets/chocolate (for the most part..have the odd bit at the weekend), reduced consumption of fizzy drinks from 1 a day to probably 1 a week and have added in lots of veg, meat/fish, fruit and increased my sporting activities...not rocket science but it's been effective for me.  Am down 16lbs and still loosing ~1lb a week.  So what's my point?  Well maybe I'm trying to say thank you to Sid, Patonious and everyone else for a great thread.

Thanks for the kind thoughts:
Interesting thread I came across:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OoYZUhGNiuQ

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10545857/Vegans-powered-by-raw-food-complete-year-of-daily-mar

Food for thought.

Oioi!!

Happy New Year, Sid ;)

Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to you Marky and to all Blonde followers.

What's next on the Sid checklist?

Had gambling and food.

How about a book about sex?

Could be juicy

The whole juicing phenomenon is, like any health subject, a very ambiguous and debated one. There are people religiously against it, and people swearing by it. I myself have researched health and nutrition solidly for...I am into my 3rd year now. Probably on average more hours a day than I play poker too!! So I can pretty safely say I probably know more about the subject than virtually any GP (lol that profession) in the world, and perhaps even the majority of most health "professions". The people who get into anything to do with health, be it doctors, nurses whoever, "learn" so much then use what they were "taught" as gospel and rarely carry on seeking the truth. They don't realise that they've only been taught what the goverment wants them to preach, and that my friends, is how to make money and shorten human lives, otherwise the planet will be overpopulated far too quickly.

Cancer cures aren't wanted, they don't want us to find out how to be TRULY healthy. For decades it's been preached that cholesterol is bad. LOLOLOL IT'S ESSENTIAL!!! It makes up 80% of breast milk!!! So they spread the bullshit that cholesterol is bad, get everyone on drugs that in fact gives them alzheimers, parkinsons and generally shortens lives by decades, and job done!! Cholesterol is just a pee in the ocean regarding the amount of crap governments have spread around the world about nutrition.

However, even what I've just typed above has only been "read" by me on some internet pages, so maybe that could all be bullcrap too...but common sense tells you it's really not likely. After all if you had to choose who to believe, is it going to be all the sticklers screaming about what was naturally put on this earth for humans to evolve from/with, or goverments trying in vain to inject toxins into your system that are used otherwise as industrial waste cleaner and the like. Yes I'm talking about the contents of all vaccinations, another massive topic on the poisoning of the human race.

Anyways, what I wanted to comment mostly on was the whole FIBRE issue with juicing. I've only recently started juicing and before that was blending. Blending keeps all the INSOLUBLE fibre. All I can relate to it so far is that this is the stinky part of food lol. When you juice, the pulp that comes out the end contains most of the insoluble fibre and you immediately notice the smell, and realise wow this is what my farts reek of after a load of broccoli eaten as an ordinary meal, or what your poop might smell of too.

This is where I get confused. I'm reading juicing isn't great because it excludes this fibre and basically extracting certain parts of any given natural food surely can't be good. It's like the whols MSG thing, MSG is a vegetable extract, so at first you think well hey, VEGETABLE, it must be good then. But it's actually extracting a certain part of not just vegetables but mostly rotten veg scraps no use to anyone, and is just a highly concentrated protein without everything else from a vegetable that would make it safe, has now rendered it extremely harmful.

Obviously that comparison isn't even close, there's no way on earth extracting the insoluble fibre from fruit n veg is as bad as MSG in a million years, but it got me thinking. When I think of theories as to just what humans are MEANT to eat (as no bugger actually knows), I try hard to imagine just wtf nature is trying to tell us. Ok so there's loads of this insoluble fibre in fruits, green leaf etc and if we eat veg in copious amounts we're gonna get diarrhea and have lots of gas, stomach pains etc. Surely this means nature only intended us to eat SO much veg. Let's imagine 50k years ago, they probably went days sometimes weeks without any food at all and then found a shedload of plant/bushery or whatever was edible back then, so had to ration it out not knowing when they would find more. Or even if they had constant supply, chances are they weren't gorging so much of the stuff in the volume that we are getting it through juicing. They would've eaten just enough to stop being too hungry, and if they ate too much they would've have digestion problems. Nature's insoluble fibre saying "eh up, you've had enough, that's all you need for optimal growth/existence".

However, maybe nature intended us to discover juicing. Just like we created drugs today, way back then they would've looked for ways to heal people who got ill through whatever means (altho technically you could say if they're eating fruit n veg they should never get ill), and I'm pretty sure they would thought up ways to extract the juice from fruit n veg using whatever means, pretty easily. And used it as a medicine. Simply a more concentrated form of what we're meant to eat. What turns it from food to medicine is the fact they've taken out the pooey fibre which enables them to overdose to buggery on the vits/mins/enzymes without the problem of shitting throught the eye of a needle. Not to mention the theory I have that all pips, seeds, stones etc of fruits were perhaps meant to be collected up and possibly used as a medicine also, as the arsenic, cyanide and whatever else is contained in them can be used to attack diseased cells and give them a good pasting.

After all this soluble v insoluble fibre confusion, it then occurs that perhaps juicing ISN'T separating it as much as it's preached. When I juice, I notice a thickish foam forms on top of the mesh that sits on the juice catcher, and when this builds up it actually stops more juice getting through. This must be like kind of half juice half pulp that didn't make it throught the pulp exit but isn't juicy enough to make it through the final mesh and this too has a bit of a smell to it, indicating that at least SOME insoluble fibre does get through. What I then do is mush that lot thru the mesh using the prodder thing, then pur it all out and back through the mesh once again, mush it through again and repeat and eventually it all becomes as thin as the rest of the juice. Pretty sure that's enough insoluble getting in there then!

If it isn't however then I am blending fruits anyway. I'm not even using the juicer for fruits, solely veg. I'm still gonna continue to blend fruits because in the diet has to include stuff like coconut oil, coconut itself, maca powder, sometimes cacao powder, chlorella, spirulina, all thgins that can't be sent through a juicer, and mostly just to be absolutely sure we are getting a decent amount of insoluble fibre too.

To conclude, all juicing can really be is either cheating nature and finding a way to turn it's food into almighty powerful, or simply doing what nature intended us to do, make medicine that we actually now use as daily food instead which prevents disease in the first place. COMPLICATED SHIT EITHER WAY!!!!  :dontask:

There's a lot of common sense in Raz's infinite reflection. In my (not humble) opinion. Half the people visiting a doctor in the UK are after a sick note or trying to cadge a few bob under the pretext of being alcoholic or various other ploys. The Government are rather keen on true alcoholics as no matter how much they give them in sick pay they spend it on drink which is taxed at 75% plus. It's a win win situation for the system.

As for the other half of people who visit the doctor, half of them need not have bothered as they would have recovered in a week or so. This leaves the residue - the 25 per cent that are not wasting NHS time. Of these the Doctors will manage to help half of them and make the other half worse. We have limited knowledge and medicine is a work in progress.

Best wishes to the Camel: I doubt that I will write another book on sex. My only forray into the subject was when I wrote a book under a pseudonym aimed at the lesbian market. This was in the eighties when lesbianism was becoming very fashionable. The book was not well received - one reviewer said it sounded as if the book had been written by a drag queen on drugs. You have to know your limitations.

Hey Sid, are you still on a strict diet? What exactly does your daily intake consist of, much cooked food? I'm currently experimenting with juicing mixed with blending and generally find even a pint of juice barely does anything to satiate me and am left feeling still hungry after half an hour or so. I haven't as yet tried going a whole day drinking say 3-4 juices and no solids at all, it feels a bit much as it equates to absolutely tons of veg and just feels weird.

That does seem odd - I'd have thought they'd have lapped it up.

Seemingly late in replying Ragz, but time's just another illusion we are all hung up on. Juicing is a difficult proposition - wish I could make more of an effort but real life keeps getting in the way. Watched this interesting video. Interesting take on cholesterol and statins etc. Worth watching

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/06/28/cereal-killers-movie.aspx?x_cid=20140628_cerealkillersdocumentary_facebookdoc

Hope you and the locals are well.

Welcome back Sid.

How are you? All good, I hope.

All is well, Thank You.
I'm not quite back, but on the way there.  Look after yourself and stay happy.