"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> 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:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.

You just couldn't make it up could you!!!!!!!!!

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