Quote Originally Posted by badger View Post
My dad eschewed sweets in the months before he died, being told that sugar's bad. We all said "why not eat what you enjoy?" as my mother's a fabulous baker and he's always loved cakes and such. I'm sure if he had known that he would be gone in a few months he would've eaten all the things he enjoyed rather than denying himself the pleasure for the sake of living a little bit longer.

"everything in moderation", no??
My great-grandmother always had a stash of chocolates by her bedside, stashed in her wheel-chair, under her pillow . . . We also used to smuggle her in salt-shakers. She lived to be over a 100. 100 years old and her doctor's are telling her not to eat sugar and salt? Crazy.