When I was young, I tried to eat just salad for lunch like many of my female friends would do. But I would get a migraine, and so learned I needed something else for lunch. Now that I’m older, I’ve learned the health issues I have that explain why a salad by itself just won’t work for me. I have to eat extra salt, due to vasovagal syncope. I have to eat high protein for my anemia. I’m to eat high carbs for my lipid storage myopathy. And between the vasovagal & the lipid storage myopathy, I have exercise intolerance. (Which means I’m to only exercise as long as it is “comfortable” – doctor’s orders!)Ben may not know why it is that he craves a grilled cheese sandwich, but I’m going to guess there is something in it that helps him feel better. (Salt, calcium, protein, etc.)It is interesting that the vasovagal problem seems to run in my family, and we all tend to crave salty foods at times. It was less than 10 years ago, that we found out that there’s a name for the fainting problem that our family has (and I have it the worse of everyone.)
AlanM almost 8 years ago
Sheldon Cooper’s uncle.
Bill The Nuke almost 8 years ago
My father and my father-in-law were both like this. Sad and frustrating.
DDrazen almost 8 years ago
Give Ben a quesadilla and tell him “It’s Spanish for grilled cheese sandwich.”
TheiaLee almost 8 years ago
At least he makes his own.
Smiley Rmom almost 8 years ago
When I was young, I tried to eat just salad for lunch like many of my female friends would do. But I would get a migraine, and so learned I needed something else for lunch. Now that I’m older, I’ve learned the health issues I have that explain why a salad by itself just won’t work for me. I have to eat extra salt, due to vasovagal syncope. I have to eat high protein for my anemia. I’m to eat high carbs for my lipid storage myopathy. And between the vasovagal & the lipid storage myopathy, I have exercise intolerance. (Which means I’m to only exercise as long as it is “comfortable” – doctor’s orders!)Ben may not know why it is that he craves a grilled cheese sandwich, but I’m going to guess there is something in it that helps him feel better. (Salt, calcium, protein, etc.)It is interesting that the vasovagal problem seems to run in my family, and we all tend to crave salty foods at times. It was less than 10 years ago, that we found out that there’s a name for the fainting problem that our family has (and I have it the worse of everyone.)