Becky

He talks about the cause of diabetes and how to stabilize your body with healthy eating. For now, I suggest stopping margarine, lessen butter, cut down on milk products, and start eating foods with a lower glycemic index.

Try this for dinner. Find fresh sweet potatoes that are easy to peal and slice into wedges. Peal and slice into wedges, and bake for about an hour. You can add cinnamon (very good for diabetics) but avoid butter and sweeteners.

You can add this to other vegetables that you have for dinner.

Make split pea soup. I found out how easy it is. Just add a pound of split peas to a 1/2 gallon of water in a crock pot, and leave on high for 5 hours. I also put in a 1/2 pound of lintels and some more water, it makes it a little better.

Most fruits are great for a diabetic, except for watermelon that has fast absorbing sugars. Cantaloupe is recommended, along with all the other fruits, strawberries instead of ice cream, ect.

A baked russet potato is faster absorbing than a sweet potato or yam, so is not recommended as much.

I highly suggest that you read the book, my aunt lost her feet due to low circulation in her feet, so it i important to me.

Best of luck to both of you. Yes you are likely to also catch diabetes, not mainly because of your genes, but because of your cookbook. You are probably 40% likely to be eating the same toxic foods that she grew up on, and will continue to make tasty – yet toxic meals. By toxic I don’t mean it will kill you this month, but after a while the toxins can cause the liver and kidneys to become overloaded with toxins.

When you have diabetes, your body doesn’t use sugar (glucose) properly. If your blood sugar level is too high, your natural lens may swell — which can blur your vision. Eventually, too much sugar in your blood can damage the tiny blood vessels (capillaries) that nourish the retina. This can result in diabetic retinopathy.

Sometimes, the break is in a large vessel, and a small “blood blister” can form. this will cause the retina to separate, again causing blindness.

And diabetes affects the nerves. If the optic nerve is affected, blindness is the result.

Simply put, many diabetics go blind. but in the early stages it can affect your focus, or (in my case) night vision (I used to have trouble driving at night).

Capillaries are ALL OVER your body. Capillaries are the very small blood vessel that connect arteries to veins. A major cause of sickness and death in diabetics is kidney failure — the kidneys are loaded with capillaries!

Broke capillaries in the brain are called Mini Strokes (or TMI, I think). These will eat away at your memory and sense little by little, until one day it’s the Big One. These TMI’s are like having Alzheimer’s . . .

Ophthalmology is the study of the diseases and surgery of the visual pathways. A check up with an ophthalmologist regularly is to check for any concerns diabetics are prone to. A dilated eye exam allows the ophthalmologist to check the back of the eye more thoroughly. Swelling, abnormal blood vessels in the eyes, and fluid in the back of the eye will be checked for. This check up should happen once a year. (Diabetes.co.uk, 2008)

Diabetic retinopathy is the most common form of diabetic eye disease. Diabetic retinopathy occurs when changes in blood glucose levels cause changes in retinal blood vessels. In some cases, these vessels will swell up, called macular oedema, and leak fluid into the rear of the eye. In other cases, abnormal blood vessels will grow on the surface of the retina. These changes, over time, may result in the loss of vision and blindness. (Diabetes.co.uk, 2008)

Other complications such as cataracts and glaucoma also affect diabetics. Cataracts is clouding of the eye’s lens. Glaucoma is the increase in fluid pressure inside the eye which leads to optic nerve damage and loss of vision. (Diabetes.co.uk, 2008)