[jambutty]

Well I’ve got a gob full of mercury fillings and I’ve got to 71 OK. So they can’t be doing me much harm.

I’ve been breathing in toxic fumes from industry and vehicle exhausts all my life as well as smoking tobacco. Naturally that has had an effect but I wonder how much the tar in my lungs has prevented the air toxins from getting to my blood?

Vegetables and me have been mortal enemies for as long as I can remember but on the other hand, I’m like Jack Sprat of nursery rhyme fame, I do not like the fat from meat, even though people have constantly told me that it’s the best part usually coupled with, “Don’t be so soft. Get it eaten.” I won’t eat ‘rare’ meat, no matter what.

I have sugar in my tea/coffee/cocoa etc and also on the breakfast cereal, although recently I have taken to using liquid honey as a sweetener on breakfast cereal instead.

I am partial to dairy products, eggs, white bread or what passes for bread these days. I cook using salt but there is no need to add salt to the meal whilst eating.

According to the practice nurse I am doing everything wrong and she continually nags me to change my eating habits, but I’m still here and able to look after myself. I am about 15 pounds over weight for my height and have been for some 60 years. But my bones are thick and strong and I’ve only ever cracked one rib, broken and dislocated the little finger hand knuckle on my left hand and two fingers. Broken nose three times.

OK! So pills have to prop up the heart and keep the blood fluid but that’s why we have doctors and pills.

I stopped playing football at 45 and a year later stopped playing cricket and stopped roller skating shortly after my 50th birthday and table tennis a couple of years later. There comes a time when the joints don’t bend quite as quickly or easily.

‘Experts’ continually tell us, or rather suggest that this, that and the other MIGHT BE bad for us only to be contradicted a few years down the line by other ‘experts’.

The problem is that research scientists need funding to carry out their research so they come up with a “this might be bad for people” so that their funding is renewed. Life and living is really all about money and how to get more. We, the general population, are just convenient guinea pigs.

What I’ve done all my life has got me to 71 so I really see no need to change things.