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davidnAs I'm sure you're keen to be updated on my constantly poor health as my conditions and cures continue to suck all the possible enjoyment out of life from every available angle, I've just been told that I should try to limit my intake of oxalates to hopefully prevent a repeat occurrence of last month. Even though I attempted a chemistry degree for two years I didn't know what exactly these were before yesterday, but they're found mostly in plants and berries, and other things virtually at random.
Most of the things on ze list aren't things that I'm going to have a lot of difficulty avoiding - indeed, I'm very pleased that I now have a legitimate reason to refuse my mother-in-law's tofu nut balls, and also to avoid brown bread. But there are a couple of pretty big ones hidden in there... chocolate is dangerously high in oxalates and has to be avoided. Who (except![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quadralien) survives without chocolate? At least it's only a component of a few of Britain's best biscuits (others being Jammie Dodgers and Fox's Crunch Creams).
Virtually all kinds of nuts are bad, and even though that wouldn't normally bother me, there's a certain cereal that I have eight boxes of in the cupboard (having received a new shipment from my brother just the other day) that I now have to severely limit my intake of. Breaking the rule against the foods on the red list won't instantly kill me but is just generally a bad idea - maybe if I'm strict with other yellow-classified foods I can work them in occasionally.
Soy sauce is on the red list as well. That was something that I'd never had before coming to America - it's very nice indeed, as long as you get the kind that's not just salt water with some caramel food colouring in it. Though that's the only variety I'll be having from now on.
So that's a brief overview of the refreshed dullness of the future of my natural lifespan, but to look on the bright side, without the power of Crunchy Nut that time's probably going to be significantly reduced.
Most of the things on ze list aren't things that I'm going to have a lot of difficulty avoiding - indeed, I'm very pleased that I now have a legitimate reason to refuse my mother-in-law's tofu nut balls, and also to avoid brown bread. But there are a couple of pretty big ones hidden in there... chocolate is dangerously high in oxalates and has to be avoided. Who (except
quadralien) survives without chocolate? At least it's only a component of a few of Britain's best biscuits (others being Jammie Dodgers and Fox's Crunch Creams).Virtually all kinds of nuts are bad, and even though that wouldn't normally bother me, there's a certain cereal that I have eight boxes of in the cupboard (having received a new shipment from my brother just the other day) that I now have to severely limit my intake of. Breaking the rule against the foods on the red list won't instantly kill me but is just generally a bad idea - maybe if I'm strict with other yellow-classified foods I can work them in occasionally.
Soy sauce is on the red list as well. That was something that I'd never had before coming to America - it's very nice indeed, as long as you get the kind that's not just salt water with some caramel food colouring in it. Though that's the only variety I'll be having from now on.
So that's a brief overview of the refreshed dullness of the future of my natural lifespan, but to look on the bright side, without the power of Crunchy Nut that time's probably going to be significantly reduced.
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Date: 2009-08-02 06:59 pm (UTC)Well, I'm glad you're generally better!