AW: The Demon Drink and Diabetes Type II

[Horst Luening]

Hello Pete!

Wise words. Even when you put them into a joke.

All goals in your life compete with each other. But if you look carefully
into my words, you see the solution to this paradoxon.

First: I said stop drinking any other alcohol than whisky! This keeps the
bad influence for whisky minimal. If you are thirsty, you should stay with
water. E.g. Beer is no ideal countermeasure against thirst. More and more
people her in Germany live this way. Avg. alcohol intake reduces from year
to year in our country since decades. With all side effects for the economy.
The beer producers suffer and add non alcoholic drinks to its portfolios.

Second: If you live longer and more healthy, then you stay customer of the
whisky company of my wife for a longer period of time. My wife runs no
quarterly strategy but a long time one. Look at Queen Mum (RIP). She used
the positive side effects of low alcohol consume to increase her life. (Well
in the end, you may speed things up - hopefully ;-).

But you are right. The actual white paper from the EC commission shows
massive threats to our branch. The EC-market is flat. The big 7 corporate
producers seek its lucks therefore in Asia and South America. But we have to
stay in our country.

This leads into the temptation to press whisky into the market (as most of
the dealers try to do). But you also have to warn (of course in smaller
letters) against the severe effects of alcohol misuse. We do it on every
page of our catalogue, even that there is no law for it here in Germany as
it seems to be in existence in France.

It is a tightrope walk.

Best Regards,
Horst


-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: MALTS-L at RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE [mailto:MALTS-L at RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE]Im
Auftrag von Pete Lamb
Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Oktober 2006 18:44
An: MALTS-L at LISTS.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE
Betreff: Re: The Demon Drink and Diabetes Type II


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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