Wednesday, November 23, 2022
First, Do Some Harm
Redpills come in a wide variety of grades and dosages. As far as health and nutrition is concerned, a classic “gateway” redpill is hospital food. If you’ve ever had the misfortune to be laid up in the hospital, or to visit a friend or loved one there, you probably won’t need to be told how terrible the food is. I remember vividly, back when I was perhaps a little less health-conscious than I am now, visiting my grandfather after he had a stroke. A nurse appeared and dumped a scuffed plastic tray on my grandfather’s lap. This, apparently, was lunch. Item one: a plate of three different kinds of watery mush, which pooled separately and refused to mix, as if somehow they were chemically incompatible with one another. Item two: a small cup of the thinnest squash I’d ever seen. Item three: a token, rather sad-looking, banana, exiled to the outer rim of the tray. And that was it. How, I asked myself, would any of this help an 81-year-old man to rally from a devastating stroke that had left him immobile and incontinent? The situation was only made worse, for me at least, by the fact that I had to try and feed my grandfather this dreck myself.
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Sounds about as bad as the mystery meat and questionable "sides" they were feeding my diabetic grandfather when he was in that grossly expensive nursing home. The food and care were shit but boy did they ever have nice furniture in the lobby and staff offices.
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My relatively recent experiences with hospital food were somewhat different. We were given a menu daily with selections for each meal...breakfast included the ability to select from oatmeal, scrambled eggs, toast of three types, juice, milk, coffee, tea, bacon, fresh fruit, yogurt, and a sustainment drink (ensure or equivalent). If you picked nothing, oatmeal, white toast, coffee and fruit showed up. You could pick as many as you wanted.
ReplyDeleteSugar, butter, and jelly were all on the tray.
Lunch was similar for beverages but included iced tea as an option, and selections were usually a couple of sandwiches and a light desert like jello and chips, fries, or other finger food.
Dinner was again the same beverages as lunch, with a prepared meat (roast, turkey, chicken) and gravy, potato or noodles, bread, mixed greens salad, steamed vegetables, a heavier desert like cake, and a soup of the day. Big difference being that it was a smaller privately owned hospital in an area where they weren't the only game around...there were three other private hospitals within 20 miles, and around 10 within an hour.
My comment to the nurses was "The room service at this hotel is great, but the beds aren't very comfy, and the staff keeps waking me up in the middle of the night." They were invariably amused.
The reason why stroke patients get mush is because they are at risk of poor swallowing. They also get few spices. Salt, for example.
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason why the food isn't to your liking in the hospital. What tastes good rarely is healthy for you.
Bull!
DeleteWhat makes food taste good? There are a few things: salt, fat, spices, sugar.
DeleteSalt- people with high blood pressure, cardiac, stroke, and kidney issues either can't have any salt, or have a strict limit.
Fat- Liver, many gastrointestinal issues, kidney, heart patients have limited or no fats allowed in diet.
Spices: many GI problems require bland, non irritating foods.
Sugar: diabetics, prediabetics, some medications, some surgeries, and other metabolic and certain infections require a limit on sugar.
Most health problems prohibit caffeine.
Many medications and health conditions restrict when, what, and how much you eat.
Believe it or not, the hospital feeds you for medical reasons, not because it is a resort hotel. For that reason, they restrict your diet. Your doctor makes that decision. He enters the order for dietary restrictions and the hospital staff is required by law to abide by that, because a dietary order is a prescription just as if he had ordered medication.
Well said. We may not like it but it's the troof.
DeleteI was in the hospital about a year and a half ago for a serious illness that required thoracotomy surgery. For the last several years we've raised most our own food, eat organic, lots of raw veggies, no processed food, no fast food and very few starches. I was shocked at the hospital fare which was about how well you'd eat out of a convenience store, was highly processed and rarely tasted like what it was supposed to be. Bananas, raw apple slices and peanut butter were about the only palatable and nutritive items available. I was even forced to eat ice cream a few times just to get some edible calories. There is no question that there is a major disconnect between health and nutrition in the industrial medical complex. Another point-I was being given a laxative since I was getting a massive amount of opiod painkillers...and to offset the laxative I was also being given medicine for loose stools (sorry for being graphic). Literally I was being given laxatives simultaneously with stool hardeners. Needless to say, I have little respect for and no faith in modern medical practitioners.
ReplyDeleteMy wife was in the hospital last week, so I had the privilege of seeing the food. The one that surprised me was chicken noodle soup. The menu called it a "blend", which I thought meant they added something healthy. Nope. It meant the whole thing was blended to liquid. I guess it's to make to easier to swallow, but it sure loses its appeal.
ReplyDeleteButter was not allowed BTW.
A couple of centuries from now, historians will pen, "They did what??"
ReplyDelete...and the answer will be "Everything except patching broken pieces and reattaching things that fell off was changed to do harm, from diet to pharma to the way medical professionals dismiss anything said by non-medical professionals."
DeleteStarve people of nutrients and then wake them up before reaching REM, when you need the proper nutrients (including meat fats) and sleep for your body to fix itself.
My last visit to university of colo hospital was for a couple weeks with peenewmonia. The food was excellent. The housekeeping was horrible with Somali dullards wiping the floors with the same rag as they later wiped down the sinks.One nazi nurse, the rest were top shelf angels.
DeleteDid you know hospitals were paid $30,000+ for each "Covid" patient they put on a ventilator? And if they also gave the patient Remdesivir (called "run! death is near" by nurses) they were paid over $1,000 a dose? No wonder so many died in the hospital.
ReplyDeleteI’ve been in S.T.A.R.S. Hospital in Brisbane thrice, each time the room service food was excellent, good enough that I eagerly consumed it and gained weight!
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