Update: Need get better gift idea: meat/potatoes guy with heart troubles

[chitwood]

He's in the hospital for a valve condition, and he's eating Hooters wings and donuts in the hospital?

No offense but this guy is a lost cause. send him a 'nice knowing you' card

 

[zinfamous]

Send his wife a sympathy card and a plant.

seriously.


"He refuses to eat veggies."

Make him eat veggies. Maybe some cooking lessons that can help him engage in learning to cook veggies that he likes. Hell, even if he has to add pancetta to enjoy brussel sprouts, that's still an improvement.

 

[mikeymikec]

I'm surprised that with private medical insurance in America, word would get back to the insurance company and they would basically threaten to void his insurance.

Make him eat veggies

No amount of veggies would save him if the rest of his diet looks like what the OP describes. It's like setting fire to a petrol station then trying to put it out with an indoor watering can.

 

[Howard]

An American flag. Or maybe just shoot him in the head, it would be faster.

 

[Kaido]

What about drinking his veggies?

Get him a nutribullet or a Juicer.

Maybe even Joe's Cross video "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead."

I had a buddy in this EXACT situation. Flat-out refused to touch anything veggie-related, didn't even like fruits. He grew up on processed foods & anything real made him gag. But...he got a high-powered blender (Vitamix iirc) and got into smoothies, and actually ended up losing a bunch of weight. He still won't eat anything veggie-related, but he is willing to drink a smoothie, which is better than nothing. Some people just have mental blocks...it all starts with desire, and if you don't want to take better care of yourself, nothing in the world is going to make you do it, sadly enough.

 

[Kaido]

He's in the hospital for a valve condition, and he's eating Hooters wings and donuts in the hospital?

No offense but this guy is a lost cause. send him a 'nice knowing you' card

Yeah, I've known people like this...they will literally die rather than change what they eat. It's sad. I've lost some good friends this way

 

[Mai72]

I had a buddy in this EXACT situation. Flat-out refused to touch anything veggie-related, didn't even like fruits. He grew up on processed foods & anything real made him gag. But...he got a high-powered blender (Vitamix iirc) and got into smoothies, and actually ended up losing a bunch of weight. He still won't eat anything veggie-related, but he is willing to drink a smoothie, which is better than nothing. Some people just have mental blocks...it all starts with desire, and if you don't want to take better care of yourself, nothing in the world is going to make you do it, sadly enough.

My father is exactly the same. The only veggie that I remember him eating is corn. He got the nutribullet last year and he's drinking fruit smoothies with spinach and kale. He would never eat those veggies in a salad.

 

[DrDoug]

So a relative is in the hospital getting treated for a heart condition. Dude is young (mid 40s), works in the skilled trades and won't eat vegetables if a gun was to his head. Even now his hospital bed meals awaiting valve replacement and other surgeries have been Hooters wings, Krispy Kreme donuts, etc.

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TIA.

Get him this so he can get it over with already.

 

[glenn1]

Update: decided to send some varieties of nuts from a famous regional supplier. Sometimes you have to take what you can get, and having him eat some almonds (good for heart), cashews (low calorie) and peanuts (good for the brain, which he badly needs) might be as good as anything we can get which he would actually partake of.

Thanks for all the suggestions.