a/c programed PERHAPS
 

The a/c has options for week days/ week ends/ wake up times for both/ . . . .


I believe that that we set the thing for 77 degrees night and day for all seven days 24 hours a day.


We can check later today that our programming seems to have worked.


M

Hooray! :yahoo:

Glad that you got your meds and hoping that you can get caught up in your sleep ASAP!
bizi

Had to have a talk w/ hubby about Glycemic Index -- told him to stop
 

Hubby has been telling me random bits of information apropo of nothing because he has been reading a book on diabetes.
He mentions that some food has a this or that number on the Glycemic Index.

I repeatedly tell him that
1 Although diabetes runs in his Mother's family, he is not diabetic.
2 I does not run in my family and I am not diabetic.
3 Neither one of us is cooking or shopping for a diabetic.

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More importantly, the Glycemic Index is useless because it is not based on science.
Science has to be reproduce-able and the Glycemic Index was not.
It is only a random chart to confuse people who really are diabetic.


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I wish I could disappear the book and hand him one I like.
M

Maybe find a good source that discusses Glycemic Load?

It integrates the GI science, so he can build on what he has been reading, but GL much more practical, for eating concerns. If you do this, make sure the book discusses GL for meals... not just a chart on GL for specific foods... because mixing foods changes the load.

wonder why he got the book?
bizi

The glycemic load is also bad science.
Actually, it has no science.

Hubby has been watching food programs on netflix and bought
Joel Furhman's book on diabetes.
Hubby's mother died in her 60s from a heart a attack that was related to her diabetes.
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Joel F's first book, Eat to Live, is good. It is about trying to be vegan 90% of the time.
He has become weird -- one of those guys that makes wild claims like Dr. Oz does.
For example, Hubby told me that Furhman said quiona is good to eat.

Of course but so are other things.
What makes quinoa better than rice or anything else?
We had to sit with the two foods and their labels in front of us looking at numbers.
Hubby concluded for himself, that rice was just as good as quinoa and tasted better.
I said, eat the rice and take a break from this nonsense.

M

Mari

I know you really can't. But tell him that even diabetic's(me) don't read
that stuff. We listen to what our doctors say, and in my case a nutritionist
for diabetics.

Donna :hug::grouphug:

The glycemic index and glycemic load concepts certainly do have some science.... the same dang science that backs low-carb benefits! Example:

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/71/6/1455.full

But of course plenty of sources making hokey recommendations based on these concepts. Popular books, health sites, and blogs all make pretty wild claims about almost every health concept on the planet. The claims all seem to be lack and white, while the science is seldom so. But making things simple, radical, and sensational is appealing. It is easy to understand. It sells...

Twenty years ago fats were bad. This led to "low-fat" foods padded with starches, and people overate sugar, more and more. Now we are all getting fat, and people have "discovered" that carbs are bad, especially sugar. Well duh, a diet based on empty calories is bad. Duh duh duh.

There is actually science showing ills of fats as well as carbs, but pop nutrition sources go well beyond what science has established. I expect that in 20 years or so, they will be telling us protein is bad. Because by then, enough people will have been brainwashed into high-protein diets for long enough that there will be fall out from it, and there will be science against protein... new book fodder. Eventually, someone might even figure out a way that fiber is bad... perhaps based on the overuse of today's fiber-based supplements to promote weight loss. :rolleyes:

Re: rice versus quinoa... they have different protein profiles. Quinoa has a very "complete" amino acid content, as grains go. That's no reason we should all suddenly replace our rice with quinoa. This is one of those black/white, cut and dried things. Life just isn't.

Hubby has settled for now on a book I found in his stacks:
J. Fuhrman's Eat to Live.
I did this for six weeks one summer and loved it because i felt great.
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It is less gimicky than some other stuff of Fuhrman's and does not talk about magic foods.

It is straight up
1 vegan
2 portion control

Re portion control: for ex, one pound a day of greens (cooked), one pound a day of raw veggies, . . . .and other stuff like small amount of beans (one cup), one carb (very small amount), four fruits, . . . . . .

This might keep him occupied for three weeks until he moves onto something else.


M