Not just glucose. Most are actually long chain sugars that require some work from the body’s enzymes to break them down to simple sugars.

Yep. I’ve always been active. Hell, I have my BS in Exercise Physiology & Biomechanics. However, I’m 54 and have developed a rare form of Rheumatoid Arthritis that keeps me from moving much these days. We have not yet found meds I can take to get me back moving somewhat normally. To the outside person, I probably appear to be a couch potato. I think even to some of the inside people I may appear that way. My wife rides my ass constantly about needing to get up and move but she isn’t the one dealing with the pain and the energy drain that comes from tolerating the pain for 8-12 hours a day while working.

Agreed. I think it looks much better than my pasty-white arms with a black tat.

Nice a friend of mine has a QR code in white on his palm. It wears off pretty fast so he gets it re-done every couple of months. It is a rickroll QR code.

Assess the relationship, define what deal breakers have been identified by this friendship and look for people with the traits you would like in a friend.

Absolutely. People grow, people change. We shouldn’t tie ourselves to a version of that person that no longer exists. As you said, some people are just with us for a season.

My best friend from 4th grade through most of college and young adulthood and I parted ways a while back.

I relish our time together and look upon it fondly but we had just become very different people with different interests, political beliefs, religious beliefs, etc. and trying to hold the friendship together was really tough for us. It seemed like the harder we tried to get our friendship back on track, the more we argued. So, I pretty much said to him what I just said in this paragraph and we moved on. I check in on him and his family on occasion but we are no longer in each others lives and it is best for both of us.