See when one scampered off to get checked out for coeliac
disease...
Results that were inconclusive, ironically due to
eliminating the cause of great pain and suffering from the diet in the form of
gluten. It seems that without a steady supply of inflammation going in the
system, the blood tests can't tell if you are or aren't. Apparently all that
they can do to tell for sure is a bowel biopsy; a simple day procedure. To be
honest at the mention of sharp pointed objects being aimed at oneself the need
for conclusive results disappeared. In fact it was enough to make a deal with
the doctor... one will live happily with an inconclusive result and just stay the
hell away from things that cause gastric distress. She laughed... mutters
doctors are natural sadists whatever the oaths may profess.
... they also checked all the vitamin levels in the body.
Vitamin D came back in the red. Actually it was flat lined.
Yes in yet another ironic turn of events, like so many others who live in a land of endless sunshine, it seems one is Vit. D deficient. It's the new epidemic in this country. For years our government has been preaching slip, slop, slap and for a change the citizens have actually listened. No more are babies popped out into the sunshine...
Yes in yet another ironic turn of events, like so many others who live in a land of endless sunshine, it seems one is Vit. D deficient. It's the new epidemic in this country. For years our government has been preaching slip, slop, slap and for a change the citizens have actually listened. No more are babies popped out into the sunshine...
Now here is an interesting bit of trivial for those that
love such things....
Vitamin D is the only vitamin not found in mother's milk.
They think it is because we as a hairless mammal evolved to synthesise our own
Vit.D. All other mammals and birds ingest it from their fur and feathers when
they groom themselves. For this reason there
is a school of thought that says we were not meant to ingest Vit. D...
In fact one whit has suggested that we would have just as
much joy licking the family pet. This does, He quipped, give a new meaning to
those people who love their dogs a bit too much. Sighs see what one lives
with??
...but do what we were designed to do... bask in the suns
radiance.
So here one is...
Basking...
In the suns radiance...
And His approval
Oh and taking Vit. D supplements too 'cos hedging bets is
always a smart thing to do J
5 comments:
I'm a bit low on vitamin D too, but hey, I live in Sweden. It's a chronic illness here. A hundred years ago it was a common cause of death of children (the English sickness it was called).
In a couple of months we wont even see the sun, more than a grey glimpse of it for a few hours hovering around the horizon at midday. Send some of that sunshine up north if you have a chance, willya'?
Happily... in jars even :)
Seriously though living in a place like Sweden the lack of Vitamin D is to be expected. Here though they estimate that one in three women are deficient and that figure is set to rise, judging by how many very fair young women and children one sees coming into work. The trouble is that no one thinks to get tested other than the elderly and even then it is only after something has been broken.
It's a problem in Wisconsin, too. I have to try to remember my Vit. D this winter when I won't see the sun at all. In the summer I'm out in it quite a bit.
You'll love it When you reach green.. Vit D deficiency makes you extremely tired.
Well so long all the extra energy doesn't interfere with the afternoon power nap :D
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