The Demon Drink and Diabetes Type II

[Pete Lamb]

Wise words - Horst but be careful not to preach to much!! If all your customers suddenly took your advice and only had 2 whiskies on a Friday and never drank in crowds your wealth happiness would soon be diluted as less people drink whisky and therefore less people buy from you making you unhappy on both the wealth and the fun side as you would have less whisky to have fun with.
 
Only joking really.
 
Pete
 
www.malthead.blogspot.com
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: luening at DR-LUENING.DE
To: MALTS-L at LISTS.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE
Sent: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 5.23PM
Subject: AW: The Demon Drink and Diabetes Type II


Hello Ralph!

I decided several years ago, after looking into the graves of my parents and
several beloved friends, to change my life completely.

What is life?

You have two choices. One is doing nothing and let the winds blow you into
arbitrary directions. Let your surrounding take care of where you will find
yourself in a few years.

The second choice is much harder. You have to bring down you life to a few
self given goals. You need a full weekend for it. Write down all thoughts
you have. Then bring them into sequence and discard things, which add no
sence to your life.

You will end up with 5 to 10 single points on your list.

If you have a quite normal structured brain and life, then you will find
health, wealth, care for your family and near friends, fun and a few other
things on this list.

Back to the topic!

Where is Single Malt Whisky on my personal priority list? I am working in
the whisky trade. And I love working in it. So Whisky is as well high in the
wealth category (earning) as it is high in the fun tree (I love it).

But whenever I have to decide to bring health and Whisky into correlation -
health always wins. When I am able to live really long, then the fun of
consuming little whisky will add up to more whisky in the end then those
people, who have more of it in a short time and think they have more fun of
it.

I also know people with Diabetes Type II. Most often it has to do with
overweight. Alcohol contains lots of calories and adds to your weight on a
daily basis. But when the weight comes down significantly, then the diabetes
symptoms seems to become less severe as well and these people are again able
to live without swallowing pills.

I have also seen people in our surrounding, who suffer from high alcohole
intake and overweight. Bad nerves, bad livers - all you can imagine. But
there are also bad secondary influences for other parts of your body. The
joints of your legs show more wear to overweight and your are becoming more
and more out of breath from every kind of physical effort. This indicates
overload of your heart and circulation.

What to do?

Reduce weight - as long as you are able to get rid of it without sideeffects
to your body.
Get help - have a councellor. I have a relative - she went down from 120kg
to 90kg in 12 months with the help of the weight watchers. And - this is the
most important thing: She is able to keep the weight.

And - stop drink any other alcohol than whisky. Stop drink a beer or a wine
beside your meal. I have another rule for myself. I do not drink when it is
not dark outside and I do not drink in a party of people. In particular I
only have a dram or two on Friday and Saturday evenings. Dramming on other
days would not allow me to keep the high pace and output in my daily working
life.

Ok, I also have a stone to loose. But a slight overweight (10 to 15% over
norm/ideal) gives you a longer life expectation, as studies show. But when
you go over +20%, then you have to live with these severe side effects like
arthrosis and diabetes.

Enough for now. Homo Sapiens should be controlled by the neurons in its
brain and not by the hormons of its pituitary gland. That's the animal
heritage in our body.

But all this is theory and hard to follow.

Live long and prosper Y

Best Regards,
Horst



-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: MALTS-L at RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE [mailto:MALTS-L at RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE]Im
Auftrag von Ralph Katzenell
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 16:43
An: MALTS-L at LISTS.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE
Betreff: The Demon Drink and Diabetes Type II


Ladies, Gentlemen and others,

So it goes. I am now obliged to busy myself with adult-onset Diabetes,
otherwise known as Diabetes Type II, and its many derivative topics. The
fearful scourge of wee, fat, ageing boozers. They  dont call me "Glenrothes
Man" for nothing!

Has anyone on the list something to contribute on the inter-relationship
between drinking (specifically, whisky-drinking)
and Diabetes Type II. I'm hoping for info and experience on effects, and on
tried and true techniques and procedures to limit ill-effects of moderate
dramming.

I will happily and carefully respect the confidence of off-list discussion.

But maybe it has relevance to MALTS-L. After all, we are all of us going to
age (gracefully, we hope), and I guess that many of us are at risk, if not
actually there. Come on - out of the cupboard, you lot!

Your thoughts, please.

Uncle Ralph

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