To follow up on this, I have to eat LARGE quantities of food to keep the
hunger at bay. Yes, I love food and eating, but there is more to it than
that. If I do not consume "enough" food, I just get way too hungry.
Then, I get sick and run-down. Religious fasting is totally out of the
question for me.  Yet, what I do is eat two large meals per day.  I cut
back from four when my father had his heart attack over 10 years
ago....Still, two a day is enough.  Plus, it's good to let the digestive
system rest and not feed it constantly.

I'm 33, 6'4", 170 lbs. and a VERY MUSCULAR big, strong spastic athetoid
quad.  I could make Mike Tyson into mincemeat.  :-)

Feed the kid, Joanne!


Matt

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Cleveland, Kyle E. wrote:

> Ditto on Bobby's email, Joanne.  At 6 feet, I weighed 126 lbs in college.
> I'm 43 now and weigh 165.  Still not a problem, but my triglycerides are
> elevated.  This is more of a metabolism issue than diet.  Eating, for me, is
> not particularly enjoyable.  I get hungry, yes, but eating is a means to an
> end--to eliminate the hunger pangs, not for comfort or any of the other
> reasons many folks eat fatty foods.  A number of CPer's I've "spoken" too
> (email) feel the same way.  When I was your son's age, the docs advised my
> parents to allow me to eat anything I wanted. Kids process fatty acids
> differently than adults--passing much of the polyunsaturates without being
> metabolized.  To paraphrase Bobby, let the kid eats what he wants
> now--sclerosing doesn't start until you've reached early middle-age.
>
> Laura and I have the same sort of issue with our "Alex", who is 3 1/2.  The
> kid won't eat hardly anything, but goes through a gallon of milk in a few
> days.  His pediatrician says no big whoop--he's in the 70-100th percentile
> for weight/height, so he's obviously thriving.
>
> Just enjoy your son and don't fret too much about the little stuff.
>
> -Kyle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bobby G. Greer, Ph. D. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:44 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Muscle fatigue
>
>
> In a message dated 8/30/01 11:43:41 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << I
> know his doc's have pooh-poohed me on this worry but his dad's side has the
> majority of it;s mean dying of cardiac arrest at young ages or with multiple
> by-pass surgeries. So how do i fatten my kid up and not put him at risk?
> Joanne >>
>
> Sorry for the misfire: now I weigh 250. Most of the men on both sides of my
> family
> tended to "baloon up" after 30 years of age. A professor who taught our
> seminar in CP always stated, "I have never seen a fat spastic!" That was
> because he had had little contact with older CP's. Don't worry about Alex's
> cholesterol right now. But as an adult, he might better be careful.
>
> Bobby
>