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Heh, I've got a Vitamin D deficiency. It's basically reached epic disease proportions. I'm thinking this may be a long-term problem - I mean, my spine's been slowly curving, I broke my knee, I've been getting continually more & more muscle pain, my blood pressure's been going up... all these things are related to Vitamin D & calcium absorption. Come to find out, Vitamin D also helps your body produce good cholesterol & it seems like no matter how many good fats I've added to my diet or how much oatmeal I eat, that's been outta whack for a few years too. So, I bought a chewable version of Os-Cal. I'm willing to try it. At least it makes sense - I am not big on bovine lactation in any form (except ice cream, which normally isn't made w/fortified milk) & avoid sunlight like it's the plague, so... there's no Vit D in me. The doctor also gave me a prescription-strength form of Omega-3 fatty acids, which is cool. I hate trying to take those fish-flavored horse pills. I hate supplements, I really do - my diet is rich and varied, I'm not a sugar fiend even if other people don't believe it... but Vitamin D only comes from milk, egg yolks, a coupla fishes (salmon, canned-in-oil sardines, mackerel, & canned-in-oil tuna - all yuck except salmon), beef liver and sunlight. And I have to admit, I don't normally include any of that in my diet. (bizarre factoid of the day - according to the National Institute of Health, the new focus on breastfeeding has caused rickets to re-emerge because human breast milk has no substantial amounts of Vitamin D. I found out why all those Bugs Bunny cartoons always had parents punishing kids w/threats of cod liver oil - 1 tbs. of cod liver oil has @300% of the RDA of Vitamin D & was widely promoted at the turn of the century to prevent rickets - which it did. All these years & I thought it was a laxative!)
I'm gonna have to buy Pat Monahan's solo album, even tho he pissed me off for going solo. I just heard Her Eyes tonight & it's reinforced the idea that he's my soul mate. Even Rob thinks I'm dating him on the side.
I'm gonna have to buy Pat Monahan's solo album, even tho he pissed me off for going solo. I just heard Her Eyes tonight & it's reinforced the idea that he's my soul mate. Even Rob thinks I'm dating him on the side.
