Letters to the Editor
Amerigo
Published Letters: 955 Editor's Choice: 60
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Your cheating heart
[Read the article: My boss wants me to apologize to his wife]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just like oral sex is cheating, doing "everything but sex" with someone other than your spouse is cheating to me.
Wow, you are setting the bar for cheating awfully low here. What about secret masturbation? I guess that is cheating too, because it is a kind of love affair with yourself. Is religion cheating if you love Jesus more than your spouse? Is smoking cigarettes cheating because you love cigarettes and you are spending money and wasting time outside your marital chores.
And what is "everything but sex"? Does that mean going on vacation with someone, but with separate rooms? Or does it mean talking dirty but not touching.
I think it would be a good idea to have National Cheating Week. It would give everyone something to look forward to, one week in the year allowed as a salve for the chafing of marital shackles, and it would make it so much easier for everyone not to cheat the rest of the year with the embarrassing memories of last year's cheating fiascos always fresh in the memory.
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Insulin and weight gain and diet
[Read the article: The diet that's too good to be true]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have to agree with County Girl here on most points. Over the last 35 years I have had dealings with many type 1 diabetics and they are rarely overweight. Type 2 diabetes, now that is a different matter. The Type 2 diabetic is not dependent on insulin, but is managed with oral hypoglycaemics (drugs) and diet. One of the main CAUSES of Type 2 is obesity--when you make your body so big, your pancreas cannot produce enough insulin, though it does not entirely shut down production as in Type 1.
For Type 1, the point of insulin pumps and frequent testing should not be to allow the diabetic to eat all kinds of sugar-laden crap ad lib, though occasionally they may want to eat a piece of wedding cake, or something, which they should be able to do without becoming comatose.
Effective management of Type 1 means eating regularly on schedule and eating a diet that provides adequate nutrition without concentrated carbohydrates, like sodas that contain 11 teaspoons of sugar in one 20 ounce drink. It means not eating a whole pack of cookies at once, etc.
In fact it would do all of us, diabetic or non diabetic, no harm at all to adhere to a 2000 calorie American Diabetic Association diet.
A quick answer to a post above regarding the cost of healthy eating. I don't think it is necessary to go to expensive or distant stores for special foods. The key to healthy diet is to buy basic ingredients, preferably fresh, cook standard recipes for your culture, ethicity, or preferred cuisine, and eat regularly scheduled meals--breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Avoid extra high fat and sugar items like cheese cake and full-strength Ccoca Cola except as occasional treats. As a general principle avoid supermarket processed and prepared food as they are generally high in sugar and fats. They also cost more than preparing your own food.
Avoid fast foods and takeout for the same reason, or if you must eat out, pick your spot. Half a block from my house is a Mexican tienda or supermercado that has a cafeteria corner that serves dinner daily. The Mexican family that owns the place eats this food, and you can often see up to about 20 of them (a few in-laws, cousins, grand-dads etc. and the numbers soon add up) all sat down together eating their daily dinner around 5:30 p.m., so you can say this is as close to home-cooked food as you will get--and a full dinner inclusive of tortillas and fresh salsa is $6.42 including tax. This type of take-out is OK, but try to avoid anything with a national brand because they will always try to tweak their recipes (it seems to me) for maximum profitability by stacking them with cheap fats and sugars.
Even for the diabetic, it is never the individual meal that does you in. A single Coca Cola will not kill you or destroy your teeth--(you will need up to whole case for that!) but your regular eating habits, the things that you repeat over and over and over will make or break your health in the long run.
Hence you might as well get used to drinking unsweetened ice tea right now. It is incredibly cheap to make and all you need to do is drop some tea bags in a pitcher of cold water, place in fridge and wait one hour to drink.
You also need to watch out for consumption of alcoholic beverages. For some reason these do not have nutritional information labeling, but rest assured that there are plenty of calories in beer, alcohol is a carbohydrate, and a small beer is about 150 calories which is about the same as a serving of chocolate fudge pudding.
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Can I sell...
[Read the article: J.K. Rowling's Crucio curse on fan's Harry Potter book]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... Florida 'Gators T-shirts and jackets? It is a public university and I am a tax payer, so I am more-or-less a cooperative owner of the franchise. They would be happy to have me making people aware of the existence of their sports teams, wouldn' they? I could do it as a public service and make myself some cash as well.