On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:48:25 -0500, Alan Calan >
wrote:

>I just found out about an hour ago that an older friend of mine,
>someone who is in my tennis group (but stopped playing a while ago)
>took his life. He had bad arthritis, lots of pain, he was on dialysis
>and he had diabetes and the Drs. told him that they might need to
>amputate his legs. That was all he needed to hear.
>
>I don't have diabetes but I am getting too close. Maybe I shouldn't
>be buying a pasta machine.

On the contrary. My mother increased her carb consumption and
decreased her cheese consumption and now her diabetes is under
control. In our modern society we eat far too few carbs (think about
what our ancestors were eating).

Nathalie in Switzerland