On 12/6/2013 7:28 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>> On 12/5/2013 5:55 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>> On 12/5/2013 4:29 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>> On 12/5/2013 9:47 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
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>>>>> I don't know, it's been my experience that older people start
>>>>> going for the sweet stuff. Even my mother, she never got the
>>>>> point of frosting, saying Wouldn't that make it sweet? has
>>>>> developed a liking for cakes and pies in the past few years.
>>>
>>>> We had the hardest time getting my mother-in-law to eat and keep from
>>>> wasting away. She did like sweet stuff but we never tried cake and
>>>> frosting. That would have been great if she ate that. I would have
>>>> bought her all the cake she could handle.
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>>> It was the same with my inlaws, it got to where I'd always bring
>>> a decorated bakery cake or those tins of butter cookies. I don't
>>> know if it's just a taste bud thing or what. Maybe more to it than
>>> that.
>>>
>>> Really, if cake is what made them eat, here you go.
>>>
>>> nancy
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>> My dad consumed a lot of bakery-made pastries and the like.
>> (Apparently he had a serious sweet tooth in the last few years of his
>> life.) The only way to get him to eat was give him something either
>> sweet or with a bit of a kick to it (like spaghetti sauce). I don't
>> 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.
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> 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!!
>
I don't understand that, either. When Mom was in the hospital they had
her on some gawd-awful low-fat, low-sodium diet. I took her some crab
cakes. The nurse was horrified. "She's not supposed to eat that!" Why
on earth not? She's 82 and she's not eating the crap you're feeding her.

Jill