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RUN, DON'T WALK....
to your nearest bookstore and pick up the following books to help you with your diabetes:

1)   Diabetes is not a Piece of Cake by Janet Mierelles, RN

I bought it at Barnes and Noble, it is also available for purchase in the American Diabetes Association bookstore at http://diabetes.org

This is the best book on the market for newly diagnosed and especially for the friends and families of all diabetics. I gave a copy to every member of my family this holiday season. It tells the truth about diabetes and how to avoid sabotaging your loved ones health care. It is lighthearted and easy to read and contains all of the crucial information, some recipes and a whole list of resources. Worth every penny and then some, especially if you have a diabetic husband, wife, child, grandchild, sister, best friend, etc. and you're not sure what you can do to help them.

2)   Potatoes, not Prozac by Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.

Published by Simon and Schuster (http://www.simonsays.com)
I found it at Borders Book Store. To learn more about the book or the information in it, please go to http://www.radiantrecovery.com

This book is excellent for anyone trying to get serious about nutritional therapy or having trouble sticking to their prescribed meal plans. If what you are doing now is not working or is not working well (ie: you don't feel great!) please do yourself the favor and spend the $12.00 and buy this book and follow the steps outlined in it for creating a healthy way of eating for the rest of your life. Her strategy is almost identical to the one I did -I wish I had heard of this book 5 months ago. And I am living proof to all that this really works!!!!

Especially recommended for those who have struggled with depression, weight issues, eating disorders, alcohol or narcotic dependency issues or chronic undiagnosed illness, chronic fatigue, etc. GET IT AND READ IT NOW!

3)   A Fat Story
(submitted by E. Samuel Levy)

At 50 I weighed 315, I had a bile duct block with stones. The doc said he wanted me to lose weight before he operated. I could digest no fat, I had to grease my skin 3 times a day with vaseline. I dropped weight so fast he decided he could operate in 6 weeks. Not long after, I had an employment physical, and was discovered to have sugar in my urine. I went to another doctor, mine said he had no diabetic patients. He put me on insulin. I stayed on various insulin regimens, realized I had not been tested for oral, went to Mexico and found it controlled my sugar. I could eat anything and did. After a year my sugar started to climb. I went back on insulin. My dose climbed from 48U a day to 80U. I thought I was over insulinizing, I learned about fat causing insulin resistance. I was asked by Kaiser HMO to sign a NO FAT pledge, my insulin dose dropped rapidly over 3 weeks simply by lowering my fat intake. When my dose dropped to 28U a day, I went back on glyburide 2.5mg with success. I realize that my oral stopped working simply from my fatty diet. Continuing on the no fat diet I lost 64 pounds. I started crashing from low sugar 6 times in a week. I went to 1.25mg glyburide, in a month I started crashing again. I phoned my RDE and she suggested I try diet only. In this condition I could clearly see what each food did to my sugar. I ate a single piece of rich brown bread I went from 90 to 140. I could not eat crackers either. I found pizza crust caused the same problem. I could eat so little bread or wheat products they were terrible unsatisfying. Having this experience with fat, weight loss and wheat products has shaped my attitude. I write to diabetics who share their improvement with these ideas. So I have factual reasons I don't eat wheat, fat. Rather that accept what someone tells you, I suggest you make your own tests. Stop your fat intake, watch your sugars, weight. Stop eating wheat, rice, corn in significant amounts, read your sugar. You will find your own reasons to change your attitude, like I have.

To contact Sam for more information on tight dietary control of diabetes or related info, write him at designnut@home.com