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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Complications Real Life
Tags: allergies celiac diet food friends religion
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There's no such thing as a single "diabetes diet". -- Diabetes proverb.
One of the challenges in preparing food -- or treats -- for a group of people is accommodating everyone's likes, dislikes, and dietary restrictions. Sometimes this is straightforward -- a packaged salad with OU (U in a circle) markings will be acceptable to most observant Jews; similarly, a vegan-certified product will work for most types of vegetarians. Preparing the same food from scratch poses other issues. If all my ingredients are kosher pareve (non-dairy, non-meat) but I cook those ingredients in a pot that once held pork roast, that food is no longer acceptable as kosher -- it has been "contaminated" by whatever molecules of pork that might have remained in that pot (even after a thorough washing).
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Real Life
Tags: allergies celiac diet food gluten-free religion
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As I stated in my last post, an "intersection" diet (or if you prefer, an "and" diet) is one in which there is more than one overriding specification: low-fat and gluten-free; low-carb and vegetarian; low-carb and low-fat and low-sodium; Halal and peanut-free, and so on.
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Categories: Type 2 Food Real Life
Tags: Christmas Cookies holiday eating portion control recipes
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It's that time of year again -- time to report on this year's results of the WebWarren Cookie Laboratories.
Lest you think I've had a bit too much of the nonexistent "adult" eggnog (or given the outdoor temperatures, the nonexistent hot toddy), The Other Half's parents like to have several varieties of cookies on hand for Christmas Day visitors (i.e., the entire extended family) -- and with his mother no longer able to do the sort of baking she once did, we try to take up a bit of the slack. The first time we did cookie baking up here, I was trying to develop some new cookie recipes, and we brought down the results in a carton repurposed with Christmas wrapping paper and labeled "WEBWARREN COOKIE LABS -- EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES". The name -- and the mock pretentiousness -- stuck. While were not able to get down south this year, the Cookie Labs have been in full force.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Relationships Real Life
Tags: allergies celebrations celiac Cookies cooking diet Family friends gluten-free holidays
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It seems that everyone has some sort of allergy or food intolerance nowadays. Many of us with diabetes try to avoid sugars (or carbohydrates in general). Those of us with hypertension must restrict sodium intake; those with high cholesterol, saturated fats. The incidence of anaphylactic peanut allergy seems to be increasing so rapidly that restaurants are putting peanut warnings on the doors to their premises. And then there's the most prevalent food allergy of all, wheat.
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My parents are coming over for dinner tonight. I have a reputation, among my father anyway, of being a good cook. So whenever Dad comes over, I feel obligated to make something nice for him. The one requirement: It must be gluten-free.
In my summer quest to try new foods, I've discovered quinoa (pronounce keen-wa). It's a whole grain and complete protein. I wasn't quite sure what to do with it, so I did a google search, checked out some recipes and came up with my own toasted quinoa salad.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Complications Real Life
Tags: celiac food choices holiday eating holidays low-carb religion yeast
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One of the traditions leading into Passover is purging one's house of chometz, or leaven — those foods which have been, or could be, transformed by leavening (primarily packaged or wild yeasts). Except for those grain products which have been specifically watched over, in both a religious and a production sense, to make certain there has been — and can be — no leavening, preparing one's house for Pesach means purging it of all grain products. (In recent years this has become more symbolic than actual, but that's a long digression.) Except for the shmurah ("watched over") matzoh and matzoh products, it's not unlike what many households do when there's a new diagnosis of celiac, or an anaphylactic peanut allergy.
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As if diabetes weren't enough.
Lately, it seems like everything I eat sends my stomach into some weird, horrible feeling torrent of yuck. It turns and gurgles and hurts. It's particularly bad when I eat something higher in carbs.
And I won't share the other gastrointestinal issues that accompany the sick stomach. It's just plain gross.
So, after about a month and half of this, I called the endocrinologist. I know what the symptoms indicate. And I knew what he'd ask. And I knew what he'd probably say.
What kind of stomach issues?
Are you doing your business (read: more grossness not for print)?
Any history of Celiac in the family?
And there isn't any history of it. Not one, not even a far-distant relative.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management blood sugar control blood sugar management celiac CGMS cooking diets disclosure errors Etiquette friends glucometers gluten-free religion
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To everything there is a level of precision, a degree of reliability, or a standard beyond which improvement is either unachievable, or requires huge investments of time and money well beyond the benefit of that improvement. Companies may refer to this point as "zero return on investment". Most of us just call it "good enough for jazz", "good enough for government work", or simply, "good enough".
It has been said that our ideal blood glucose levels "should" never vary outside the range of 80-126, ever -- but most of us don't have CGMs, none of us have glucose measurement technology with accuracy of greater than 5% (expanding that range out to 76-132) and even if we had them, we'd need infinitesimally-small amounts of ultra-fast acting insulin to keep it there every time it budged a point or two. For most of us, a two-hour postprandial reading of 140 is "good enough".
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications Real Life
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Some people collect butterflies. Other people collect coins or beer cans.
Susanne collects autoimmune diseases. She has a pretty good collection too. Psoriasis, Hypothyroidism, Celiac disease, Sjogren’s syndrome and Raynaud’s phenomenon. The latter two she picked up recently.
And now ... (drumroll please)
Gastroparesis!
This one was not easy to find. Gotta hand it to her. She’s been searching on eBay and yard sales, etc. Sometimes, however, you don’t find it. It finds you.
If I understand correctly, gastroparesis is not an autoimmune disease, but rather one that is associated with autoimmune disease. Thyroid disease appears to be Susanne’s connection.
It also happens to be associated with the complications of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Relationships In the News Real Life
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"The 'Diabetes Police' are everywhere, telling us what we may or may not eat or do, on pain of losing a leg, going blind, or -- G-d forbid -- dying like their father's great-aunt by marriage did thirty years ago."
- --"They" tell us we may not eat breads and cakes
- --"They" tell us we may not eat fruits or sweets
- --"They" tell us we may not eat that nice, juicy bacon cheeseburger -- especially if it's accompanied by a plate of crispy French fries and a frosty tankard of microbrew ale
- --"They" tell us we may not drink anything other than tap water, or black coffee sweetened with Splenda
- --"They" tell us we must eat tons of cinnamon, bitter melon extract, and a myriad of other "cures du jour" that cure diabetes only in Halle Berry's pipe dreams
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