[areafiftyone]

I eat Complex carbs. Oatmeal in the morning, salad with beans, chicken and veggies in the afternoon and meat and veggies at night. Sometimes I have two slices of low carb wheat bread. No potatoes or pasta allowed they only shoot up the sugar like a rocket. By complex I mean slow burners like whole wheat or whole grain. You have to read labels. Nothing with white flour in it. It's very tough to find stuff but Atkins has made it a heck of alot better. You have to read labels very carefully. The only fruit I eat is apples because of the fiber. But I also eat grapefruit which is supposed to be good for diabetics. NO bananas or watermelons or pineapple. They are full of sugar. GRAPES are a no-no! Berries are fine. Makes you nuts sometimes to have to deal with this. I also eat alot of nuts - unsalted mostly.

[muawiyah]

Do you get the feeling diabetes is telling a hard-core 2% of us that our inherited natural diet consists of what you can scrounge up in the North Woods?

It's the part about fruit that's getting to me. There's too much sugar in fruit, and, of course, there's no fruit of any kind growing up there on the North Coast of Eur-Asia.

There are nuts. There are fish. There are reindeer!

Maybe it's not a "disease" but simply a case of mistaken latitude. At the moment I've been trying to track down what kind of legume grows within sight of the Arctic Circle ~ gotta' be one, and no doubt it's nasty, without higher order sugars, and very little starch. When I find it, I'm going to start raising them. The bottom end of that glycemic index is pretty grim (although I've always loved cauliflower and celery).

[muawiyah]

Lupinus arcticus is the scientific name of the member of the pea family that lives in the arctic.

10,000 year old seeds were successfully propagated. That's a record for any plant!

Ground squirrels and other rodents browse on these plants. They look edible, but what's the pea like when it ripens?