"Todd" > wrote in message
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> On 01/30/2013 08:11 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Todd" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 01/29/2013 10:31 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> Todd wrote:
>>>>> On 01/29/2013 02:03 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>> Sorry, I don't know what Cave Man cooking is.
>>>>>
>>>>> Eating before the dawn of agriculture. In other words,
>>>>> this Type 2 stuff didn't happen to us before humans
>>>>> discovered beer, and created the agriculture to support it.
>>>>> We humans were never designed to handle the amount of
>>>>> carbohydrates that hybridized grains and roots brought us.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know that it didn't. Diabetes certainly dates back long before
>>>> I
>>>> was ever born. They used to diagnose it by tasting the urine.
>>>> Diabetics
>>>> urine tasted sweet. And I don't think they had any way to tell what
>>>> type
>>>> we
>>>> had prior to somewhat recent testing methods.
>>>>
>>>> As for the other stuff... I don't buy it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I call it "cave man cooking" for short.
>>>>
>>>> And I call it a diet that I could never eat.
>>>
>>> Hi Julie,
>>>
>>> You have to, or body parts will start to fall off.
>>> Make it fun! You get to annoy the food nazis! You get
>>> to eat MEAT and BUTTER without guilt!
>>
>> No. My body parts are not going to fall off. I have multiple food
>> intolerances and can't eat any dairy, chicken, fish, shellfish, eggs and
>> some other foods. I have gastroparesis and can't digest most meat, too
>> much
>> fat and most vegetables.
>>
>> I do not have guilt with eating.
>>>
>>> I am having a blast. Of course, I need to get my
>>> cooking skill down.
>>
>> I'm glad you are. But if I ate what you did, they'd have the surgically
>> remove the bezoar that I would get. That's a food ball. Much like a
>> hair
>> ball in a cat.
>>>
>>> The alternative is to be an extra in a zombie movie.
>>
>> Well, no. I've had diabetes for about 15 years now. I'm still here.
>
> Gastroparesis. Yikes! What a pain in the neck!
>
> My wife's side of the family has a T2 that is 92 years old.
> So, as long as we watch ourselves, we will be fine. I think
> of it as a lifestyle, not as a disease. (Though I know of a guy
> who refused the restrictions and lost both legs then
> his life at age 52 or so. Don't remember the exact number.
> He must have really likes sweets and pizza.)
>
> -T

I know plenty of diabetics who eat pizza and sweets. Not saying that it's
right. Or wrong or whatever. Still doesn't mean that we'll lose a limb.