Postby Harriet » Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:54 pm
Beginning in 2005, I guess, as the B L trainer, he was asked about food a lot. I was a show fan, and I remember that by 2010 he would answer in interviews that his own diet had become vegetarian or vegan. He liked it because it kept cholesterol low and used to tell back then what his cholesterol was, but I don't remember. But I never heard him promise anyone he was committed to being a forever vegan. It was what he was doing at the time.
In late 2013 he famously became an advocate of Paleo eating and he gave up all beans/peas/lentils and all grains of any kind, adding in 2 to 3 eggs each morning, butter in his coffee and lots of meats and fish. He had a new book he was already writing, but maybe had already gone to print before his Paleo decision, coming out in April, 2014, and it had the recommendation of one meatless day a week. In Feb 2017 he was thankfully near a doctor working out at the same gym when he had the massive attack. The dr found no heartbeat, but the gym had a defibrillator and the doctor knew how to use it, bringing him back. In his late-2017 book he names quinoa and brown rice as "super carbs" (title of book), and credits the Dean Ornish program/advice with his heart-attack recovery.
Last I heard he is now a pescatarian, meaning vegetarian who avoids dairy and eggs but sometimes eats fish. He's complained because some people keep questioning him, worried about the fish, which of course would add oil and pollutants, but he rightly said, "I'll do me, and you do you", and later said he understands that these are well-meaning - maybe even worried - fans. He has said he thinks genetics was a big part, but the history of heart attack in his family was at age 70 and he was 51. To me, with age factored in, then, genetics doesn't sound as significant.
Harmony, as far as awareness, I don't know what you can do except say to him to be more aware. ? That sounds lame, doesn't it? I think completely fainting was a lot to ignore - that wasn't a little thing. Mr. Harmony would notice fainting!
Thinking about him sleeping cold, was he just exhausted those nights and falling asleep before he got comfortable? I think I'm an odd one in that I have to get situated just-so or I can't sleep. I will pull covers over my head like a hood, and I have hair, after all. HRH and ds laugh at me because of course HRH has less, thinner hair and ds has almost none at all (shaven), but I'm the one who wants covers around my head.