I cleaned up my diet.

2003 was the year I cleaned up my diet. When I saw my doctor about an
attack of Menieres, she took my blood pressure, said it was too low
and I should consume some salt. The worst attack I had was in 1999
when I had to be hospitalized for five days. I was connected to an
intravenous machine as my electrolyte levels were way too low. Other
previous attacks I had previously were once when I worked at Reading
University, on my 18th birthday and two previous attacks.
Since I have increased my salt intake, I have had a few attacks on
Menieres but they have only lasted one night, not several days. All
blood pressure tests since then have come back normal. Usually
Hypotension gets worse with age. One of the symptoms of Hypotension is
an inability to concentrate.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/low-blood-pressure/symptoms-causes/syc-20355465
I have done a number of vocational courses since 2003. Everyone of
them has an exam at the end. I am always the first to finish. It was
not like that with me at school. What changed?
For some time I have been buying 25KG bags of unrefined salt crystals
intended for livestock from a farm supplies shop. I have just bought
a grinder of E-bay for under $15.
2003 was also the year I found out that skimmed milk was giving me bad
haemorrhoids.I thought the opposite would by consuming butter. It
worked. About his time I read about margarine not being the health
food it was claimed to be. I also discovered the WestonAPrice website.
I was always a tad confused about nutrition. Finally I found a place
where everything made sense. It was Mary Enig from WAP who blew the
whistle on trans fat.
After three months of eating butter and cooking with dripping I quit
smoking. There is some science behind this.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-science-mental-health/202002/low-fat-diet-can-make-you-angry-irritable-and-depressed
Being angry, depressed and irritable is hardly the state of mind to
quit smoking is it?
Ancel Keys was a fraudster, a
conman an egotist who fooled millions. A real scientist welcomes
scrutiny and criticism. Why endorse the dogma of a bigot? Everything
he said should be completely disregarded. The evidence against
saturated fat is just not there.
Whenever I come across a book on nutrition that talks about saturated
fat in negative terms, I put it back on the shelf and leave it there.
Similarly a website that talks about saturated fat in negative terms,
I close off the tab and don't go back there again. If they have got it
wrong about about saturated fat, what else have they got wrong?