> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 08:37:34 -0500, Nancy Young
> > wrote:
>
>>On 12/6/2013 7:28 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>
>>> "jmcquown" > wrote
>>
>>>> On 12/5/2013 5:55 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
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>>>>> Really, if cake is what made them eat, here you go.
>>
>>>> really think he could taste much else. Mom was the opposite, but then
>>>> always did prefer fairly bland food. You give them what they'll eat
>>>> and try not to fret about it too much.
>>>
>>> I never did understand this thing where very old people are put on a
>>> restricted diet! Hell why???? Let them enjoy whatever life they have
>>> left!!
>>
>>Really, and last I heard, grown people get to decide for
>>themselves if they want salad or they want cake.
>>
>>A lot of doctors should be more concerned about the plethora
>>of scary conflicting medications older people seem to be on
>>than if they ate plain chicken for dinner. Just my observation.
>>
>>nancy
>
> The two that bother me - statins which make so many of my friends feel
> ghastly and taking a small dose of aspirin daily. Studies have shown
> that although that might save some, it's only something like one
> person in 200 but the damage even the small dose of aspirin can do to
> so many seems lost in the mist.
>
> The best bet is to be very leery of anything big pharma makes a bundle
> on !

We take the small asprin (one at night) but wouldn't touch statins with the
proverbial!

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