Diabetes Sugar Myth Story

thanks to GI News for this great article:

http://ginews.blogspot.com/2011/05/busting-food-myths-with-nicole-senior.html

What to eat? What to buy?

Loving Diabetic Living's Supermarket guide today:

Aisle by Aisle: What To Buy?

Shopping Guide

Update on last post

No longer excited. That 600 calorie diet? It's only for the morbidly obese ...

laters

New research from Diabetes UK - can diet reverse type 2?

Very exciting.

Can a very strict and low calorie diet, whilst under medical supervision, reverse type 2?

An old schoolfriend's uncle did this and no longer has type 2.

I think I'll wait for a little more research, then find out if I'm a likely (meaning likely to succeed) candidate for this.

600 calories per day sounds like a nightmare to me ... but for a few weeks, it's more than worth it.

PLEASE NOTE - DO NOT, PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DO THIS AT HOME WITHOUT MEDICAL SUPERVISION!!!

Raising Awareness

I'd like to raise awareness of this disease, because I am certain that my late husband had type II. It's just that it wasn't diagnosed.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it?

But looking back with hindsight, it is now very clear to me today that Cliff had even more symptons than I had. The last one being, "every time I eat, I have this bloated uncomfortable feeling" to which I advised, "you need to go to the doctor's".

Oh how I wish I'd known then what I know now ... he'd still be here.

Diabetes, coupled with his high blood pressure. He didn't have a chance.

If he'd been on the DASH diet, he'd still be here.

There are no words for the guilt that I feel.

without health care for diabetes

this is how bad health care is in the United States.

as i've written, i do not have health care either. i have to wait on April 2012 to be signed up at work. i have to work there a year. other bridge insurance programs deny me for one of two reasons: i am considered pending at work, or i have a pre-existing condition, the diabetes/high blood pressure. so i get denied.

if i want health care for this 10 month interim, i would have to pay $350 a month. and then it would kick in after the $5000 deductible.

i can't afford that. and i don't want to go to jail. so i am falling, falling, falling through the cracks.

i am going to have to pay for the class out of pocket. hundreds and hundreds of dollars will rack up over the next 10 months. i can't imagine how much. $400 for an office visit? lab fees? the class?

i sometimes feel like i am circling the drain.

that's the difference between me and Boo. between not having health care and your government serving it's people.

i wish you peace.

I really like these mini-slideshows courtesy of Diabetic Living:



Power Foods for Diabetics

Top Diabetic Snacks (USA)

Top tips for grocery shopping