Fresh Food
My parents always avoided processed drinks and foods, especially meat and fish. They tried to avoid higher prices and food ingredients you did not need and could not identify. They did not want their food, chopped up, disguised, watered down with water and sauces, cheating them of the basic product.
Fresh salmon was a rare treat. Our one mistake was eating smoked salmon, a party treat, later as we grew more affluent, along with more delis and supermarket food,
I had never realised that smoked salmon was literally smoked, preserved by adding smoke from fire, which dried the fish and made it less friendly to tiny life forms, 'germs', which we later identified as bacteria, which created illnesses treated with anti-biotics.
Fresh Fruit And Potatoes
My late father lived to 93. He was born in WWI. From childhood he had eaten an apple a day for lunch all summer. As a child he had a potato in its jacket, containing vitamin C, in winter.
I recall hotels and restaurants had trolleys of desserts, which included fresh fruit salad.
Nowadays restaurants serve bread while you wait.
When I was a child, you either had potatoes, or bread, not both. You had bread in home made sandwiches for a quick lunch.
Diabetics and Sugar
After my mother died in the year 2000, I used to go out to eat with my father and prepare meals for him. He had late onset diabetes, which meant avoiding foods contianing sugar. I made fresh fruit salad for dessert.
I read the labels of everything to avoid sugar.
He said he like marzipan. That is basically ground almonds with sugar. I gave him a tiny amount once as a birthday treat. I bought it from the supermarket.
My husband had lymphoma, a form of cancer. I take thyroxine medicine for thyroid failing to function.
He looked at the diet advice on the Cancer Research websites. For the five years whilst he was in remission we were very careful what we ate.
Browned Food
My husband tried to avoid browned food.
All the grills.
Fast food with the outside heated to a crisp and the inside raw.
Raw And Uncooked Food
Raw food such as raw fish in sushi and sashimi,
and steak tartare,
and gazpacho,
Covid
Covid drew our attention to the fact that being overweight made you more vulnerable.
I still reduce the number of times a day I shake hands, and use elbow bumping elbows instead.
In 2026 I still use toilet paper to wipe toilet seats, toilet handles, taps, toilet cubicle handles.
Holidays in Hot Mediterranean
Stress
Too much food
Too much alcohol
Gas in drinks.
Not only Champagne,
which started as gas as a by-product excreted by yeast, like burping bacteria.
Like aligote - my favourite, but it is made with sweet fruit syrup to balance the acidity of the white wine.
spumante, (sparkling)
fizzy drinks,
gassy water instead of sin gas.
Do as I say, not as I do. I love Champagne, Asti Spumante, Prosecco.
Toasters dry out bread and cook it, turn toast brown with black edges when the toaster set to a different thickness of bread.
Does heating the bread in toasters kill off bugs, or burn the edges to charcoal?
Stress limited
We now have newspapers and news on phones all day. My friend S is a jolly person whose husband is in a wheelchair, he was an ear nose and throat specialist. She recently told me she no longer watches the news, nor lets him watch the news, because it is too stressful.
A measure between the two extremes of having the news flashing past every minute, and never knowing what is going on, would be to go back to the old system of reading printed newspapers, checking morning and evening news.
Sufficient Sleep
Many studies have shown that sleep is vital. The signs on motorways no longer merely warn that speed kills. They tiredness kills. They tell you to stop for rests.
Review your home and holiday behaviour. I try to cut out flights and ferries at times which require my losing sleep. Alternatively, I catch up on sleep before driving or going out.
Rest, relax, stay healthy and happy.
Useful Websites
cancer research
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/diet-and-cancer
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer
daily mail
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