Middle Age health check from GP

[Wobblers]

Despite what everyone says inlcuding those who don't understand the statistics, alcohol is a poison and any amount is 'bad for your body'. Small amounts will have no real affect but the concept of 'some being good for you' is false.

I say this as a person who drinks sometimes as I'm no purist but I dare say that someone who is solely looking at it medically form your body's point of view, then the amount that is good for you is very much lower than the 'recommended' allowance.

... except that moderate drinkers tend, on average, live longer than teetotalers...

 

[Wobblers]

They've probably got you down as a lying old soak and think it's more like 3 or 4 bottles.

Sounds like you're speaking from experience here, 3BM...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Sounds like you're speaking from experience here, 3BM...

Wine is for gurls and poncy nobbers.

 

[Shortmember]

I was given my first health check recently at the age of 65.The probable reason it was delayed for so long was that I hadn't had to visit the doctor for the last 12 years, because I was in pretty good health. Nevertheless, I was warned that I was 8 kilos over the recommended weight for my size,I was drinking a little too much, and my chest was a bit wheezy etc etc; as if getting old was a curable condition.

I expect my health to deteriorate as I get older- it's natural-so I have no intention of altering my unhealthy lifestyle just so I can enjoy the dubious pleasure of a few extra years of coughing, sharting , tottering about on my walking frame and having some unfortunate carer having to wipe my butt.

 

[Wobblers]

Wine is for gurls and poncy nobbers.

So that's whisky on your toasted cheese then?

 

[robjh]

..... sharting .....

I don't know this word. Does it involve shouting and farting at the same time? If so, I might try it myself (I'm sure it's excusable at my age too)

 

[Fnaar]

I'm up for a bit of sharting too!

 

[ASC1951]

... except that moderate drinkers tend, on average, live longer than teetotalers...

Isn't that because teetotallers tend to be slightly odd people, not because alcohol is good for you?

 

[Markymark]

... except that moderate drinkers tend, on average, live longer than teetotalers...

This is the trouble with the stats and people taking the wrong conclusion.

You are correct that people who drink moderately drink live longer than those that don't. The trouble is that the tee-totalers include ex alcoholics, those with long term medical conditions, cultures who don't drink but also have an unhealthy diet etc.

If you drink moderately, you're with lots of healthy people. If you give up drink, you are more likely to live longer but become part of a group of people who are likely to die sooner. Therefor people inaccurately conclude that drinking moderately is good for you.

 

[Dave Davenport]

Had a check about a year ago, we glossed over the alcohol consumption.
I was listening to something on radio 4 a few weeks ago where they said that a small amount of alcohol per day was good for your heart but any amount increased your chances of cancer and the more you drank the more it increased.
You pays your money, you takes your choice (of drink, in my case).

 

[summerdays]

High cholesterol runs in my family, so I'm assuming that at some point I will be on drugs to control it - I'm aiming to make it later rather than sooner (and hopefully to be after my siblings despite them being younger).

 

[gbb]

You need to increase your alcohol consumption.

I hope this has helped. But fear it may not have.

Sometimes, just a few words bring a smile to your (my) face....

 

[Milzy]

I remember having my pulse checked & she thought I was on drugs because it was a much lower reading than most people.

 

[Scoosh]

Mrs Scoosh had a check of some sort from the Nurse at the practice a while ago and she (the nurse) said that the alcohol consumption figures given by those interviewed are always assumed to be 'conservative' , so they are increased as a matter of course.

Honest, Miss, I only have 1 drink a week ...


[aye, right ]

 

[Dave Davenport]

I remember having my pulse checked & she thought I was on drugs because it was a much lower reading than most people.

They said my resting heart rate was in the normal range (mid seventies I think), but I'd only got off the bike from cycling to the doctors 5 minutes before they took it.