Hello,
Since November is a month where we recognize Diabetes, and I am a Diabetic, I will try to post more this month on Diabetes and things of that nature.
Some things you might or might not know about Diabetes…
CLASSIFICATION Diabetes can be classified into the following general categories:
1. Type1 diabetes (due to auto immune b-cell destruction, usually leading to absolute insulin deficiency)
2. Type 2 diabetes (due to a progressive loss of b-cell insulin secretion frequently on the background of insulin resistance)
3. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) (diabetes diagnosed in the second or third trimester of pregnancy that was not clearly overt diabetes prior to gestation)
4. Specific types of diabetes due to other causes, e.g. ,mono genic diabetes syndromes (such as neonatal diabetes and maturity-onset diabetes of the young [MODY]), diseases of the exocrine pancreas (such as cystic fibrosis and pancreatitis), and drug- or chemical-induced diabetes (such as with glucocorticoid use, in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, or after organ transplantation)
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My Disease by MwsR
It hurts to have you in my life
Each reminder pricks me like a knife.
I struggle to keep you at “bay”
But you just want go away.
Walking seems to clear my head
While you try to keep me in bed.
Food I take in
Keeps me prisoner, again.
Wishing you weren’t here
Want take away the worrisome fear.
Like an old friend that I have talked to
You remind me of what I should do.
To say my life would be different without you
Is exactly the truth.
You came into my life when health wasn’t important to me
Taught me a lot, you see.
Diabetes you aren’t my friend
You will however be with me till the end.
So I think I’ll try to be
The one I can be with this disease.
Don’t let fear rule or dictate your life.
Live it with all you’ve been given, even amid the strife.
After all you came first before the Diabetes,
You don’t need to make a peace treaty.
Fight to live!
Take time to give!
Share your knowledge and experience,
To those who search for a difference.
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The table was set just as it had been for more than sixty years. The place settings grew from two to thirteen in the early years, but for more than forty years, it had been set for two. Marjorie sat at the table and lightly spread orange marmalade on her toast and looked out into the backyard that was once filled with laughter. Now, snow was starting to fall on long silent echoes of the past. She looked across the table at the empty place setting. A silent tear trickled down her cheek.
When she was finished with her morning toast and glass of water, she washed her dishes, put everything away, and listened to the silence. The birds had left weeks earlier and her neighbor poisoned all the squirrels, so it was very quiet now. There used to be ten families of squirrels that would eat, chatter, run, and play all year-long in her garden. Their happiness attracted the winter birds to the garden. She and Bill would sit for hours holding hands and watching the animals play as their child once had.
All was silent now. Their children all grown and long since moved away. Henry and Francis were lost in the war, cancer took Sally, and Benjamin was too busy with his children. She understood. That was the way life worked. Still, it would be nice to hear from him once in a while. She was so tired of the quiet. So very tired.
A light knock on the door caught her by surprise.
“Just a moment,” she called out.
When she opened the door, a little girl in a white summer dress stood on her door step and shivered.
“Goodness,” Marjorie said, “Who are you, and why are you out here in the cold without a coat?”
The girl rubbed her arms and said, …
To Be Continued
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nothing. Marjorie could not understand why this young girl was all alone and most certainly without proper clothes, Since the little girl was not speaking, Marjorie tugged at her arm and pulled her inside the warm house.
It was obvious that this little girl did not come from a home where there was enough money and things. Her feet were very dirty and her hair looked as if she had not ever seen sight of a hairbrush. Underneath her fingernails appeared to be dirt or mud. She was very dirty in appearance and Marjorie was feeling more pity as she studied the little girl who was before her.
The little girl said nothing, but gave special attention to the pictures Marjorie had upon her walls. She also rubbed the frames each one by one with her fingers as if to study the woodwork. She remained quite but acted as if she knew this house and all that was inside it, like an old friend. It puzzled Marjorie but her thoughts gave way to finding some warm clothes and running the little girl a very hot bath, with which to bathe herself. Her mind also thought that perhaps she should call the police and report this little girl to them, but she felt a sense of nurturing and wanted to make the little girl as comfortable and warm ass possible.
Although the little girl did not respond she acted as if she knew where the bathroom was and led her own self up the staircase and into the vicinity of the bathroom, waiting for Marjorie to follow in behind her. Marjorie dismissed this odd and strange coincidence as that little girl must have heard the running tub water, Although in the back of her mind she was starting to get uneasy at how comfortable this mute little girl was, in her house.
Marjorie found some clothes and handed them to the little girl and told the little girl to go ahead and wash her self, put on her clothes and then come downstairs and that she would find her something to eat. The little girl just stared at Marjorie for a couple of very silent seconds and then turned towards the bathroom, went inside, gave another look at Marjorie and then shut the door behind her. Marjorie said to herself, “Well I think she knows what a bath is at least.” It appeared that way at least.
In just a little under an hour Marjorie was so sad and feeling so very lonely, yet now she had a complete stranger in her own bathroom, with no explanation or resolution as to how or why. “Stranger things have happened”, she thought to herself. Or have they? She quickly went about looking for something with which to feed the little girl when she came downstairs. She remembered that once there was a story kind of similar that appeared in the local newspaper.
It was a grim story though and the ending was way to tragic to think upon. The story went on to speak of a little girl who apparently showed up at the door of a person living near where Marjorie lives now. The little girl was also mute and found to be very strange and yet very comfortable around these people, just like this one Marjorie had in her house. The story went on to write about the investigation of this little girl and showed that this little girl had been abused by her mother and father and then buried alive out back of her family’s yard, while still alive. The little girl in that story actually unburied herself, and never was the same. Although the house she stumbled upon took her in and tried desperately to help her, the little girl had remained mute and eventually was found hung ni the storage building out back.
No one wanted to rehash that story up since there was such mystery surrounding it and such tragedy. Marjorie recognized the similarities in that story and the happening with this little girl, could it be the same child? “Preposterous” , she thought. Maybe it was her own grief clouding her mind and judgement.
To be continued…
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Mom by MwsR
I had you in my dreams
It was amazing and real it seemed.
My heart felt you were around
Your scent my nose found.
I sensed your presence
Longed to be near you.
When I awoke it disappeared
While the memory lingered.
For a second I had you
For a lifetime remaining you are gone.
Just once I’d like to make my dreams real
Just for a moment in this life
I’d trade a day of my own to bring back one of yours.
So I could be selfish
Have you close
Let you be real…not just a ghost.
If only.
8 servings
107 calories
Ingredients
4 zucchini, halved
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1/2 (8 ounce) package button mushrooms, sliced
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin, or to taste
1 (15.5 ounce) can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1/2 lemon, juiced
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
sea salt to taste
ground black pepper to taste
McCormick Pure Ground Black Pepper 3 Oz
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a shallow baking dish.
Scoop out the flesh of the zucchini; chop the flesh and set aside. Place the shells in the prepared dish.
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Sauté onions for 5 minutes, then add garlic and sauté 2 minutes more. Stir in chopped zucchini and mushrooms; sauté 5 minutes. Stir in coriander, cumin, chickpeas, lemon juice, parsley, salt and pepper. Spoon mixture into zucchini shells.
Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until zucchini are tender
Per Serving: 107 calories; 2.7 g fat; 18.4 g carbohydrates; 4.5 g protein; 0 mg cholesterol; 170 mg sodium. Full nutrition
is trending. In the past year, several professional athletes and celebrities have come out promoting a plant-based diet. New vegan products have emerged in restaurants and grocery store shelves and a peak in interest has flooded physician and dietitians’ offices. Now, a new study gives even more incentive to try it out.
A systematic review covering 11 clinical trials and published in the British Medical Journal compared plant-based diets with other diets in individuals in their 50s. They found a plant-based diet could potentially improve the health of the majority of individuals, especially people living with type 2 diabetes.
Though the sample size of the studies reviewed were small, the results were impressive. Researchers learned the diet significantly improved psychological well-being, quality of life and management of type 2 diabetes.
Additionally, markers that may predict cardiovascular disease (such as cholesterol and triglycerides) were also decreased. This was an important finding since having diabetes makes you more likely to develop heart disease.
In six of the studies reviewed, participants either cut down or completely eliminated medications for diabetes or other associated conditions, such as high blood pressure. Four of the studies compared a plant-based diet to official diabetic associations’ recommended diets and in all cases, the plant-based diet was associated with better results.
Anastasios Toumpanakis, the lead author, noted the study included controlled trials conducted in five different countries across four continents. That indicates the results can most likely be applied to other settings and individuals.
The benefits of a plant-based diet
Dr. Jeffrey Soble, associate professor of cardiology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago (and a vegan himself) was not involved in the study, but commented that this research only builds on the evidence that a primarily plant-based diet is healthy — not only for people with diabetes, but for everyone.
Soble noted we’re bombarded with low-carb, high-protein and high-fat diets that have very little evidence showing long-term effectiveness. Comparably, Soble noted numerous studies show the metabolic benefits of plant-based diets. Recent studies have shown plant-based diets can help to reduce the risk of obesity, certain cancers and early death.
Toumpanakis explained the diet can be consumed during all stages of life, referencing a 2016 position paper from The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that stated a vegetarian diet (defined in the paper as a diet that does not include meat, seafood or products containing those foods) is appropriate for all stages of life, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood and athletes.
One major benefit of a vegan diet is weight loss. Toumpanakis noted that in all but one of the included studies, the people following a plant-based diet had no portion control, meaning there was no restriction in calorie intake. Despite that, people experienced weight loss, which has been shown to improve diabetes control.
How to incorporate a plant-based diet
Adapting a vegan diet is not always easy. In fact, the study showed participants struggled with starting it.
Soble stressed the ability to follow a plant-based diet is highly dependent on a few things:
the diets of the people around you
how available plant-based foods are
how educated you are on vegan cooking
It’s important to remember not all vegan food is healthy. After all, most candy and white bread products are vegan.
A majority of the studies in the meta-analysis were not only vegan, but low-fat as well. So Soble encourages his patients to focus more on moderate amounts of olive, safflower and canola oils.
As in any healthy diet, it’s crucial to decrease your consumption of white refined grains and sugar, as well as adding in more fruits, vegetables, and plant-based proteins like beans and legumes.
If going completely vegan seems too difficult, Soble noted any shift away from the traditional American diet (filled with sugar, fast food and processed food) is movement in the right direction. Starting with a Mediterranean diet would be a very healthy first step, he suggested.
This study, and those that came before it, provide strong incentives to reduce animal products in the diet. Talking to your physician, dietitian or someone you know who is already on the diet may also help you in incorporating a vegan pattern into your lifestyle.
For more healthy living advice, sign up for our One Small Thing newsletter. Kristin Kirkpatrick, MS, R.D., is the manager of wellness nutrition services at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute in Cleveland, Ohio. Follow her on Twitter @KristinKirkpat.
“Flesh is weak and so is the mind who inhabits it.”
I heard that one day back in November.
Silently, I listened to the person speak.
My fingers went numb as I sat so perfectly still.
What was the meaning behind this, was there even any meaning?
I read dutifully ahead in my Bible as I was eager to find the answers…
The words resonated inside my heart
I finally knew the answer to the phrase from the very start
A person is but flesh and bones
Each having their own free will and mind
If they choose the righteous path
They will eventually, escape the final wrath.
If they choose to do the worst of things
Oh,what wrath that decision will bring.
No joy from the worth of things will they get
Sure, monetary satisfaction, “lickady split”
But in the end they will not
It is written in the “Good Book”, that I got.
Goes to show that shortly pleasures are fleeting
Life is about making heavenly choices and believing,
Grow in the wisdom, he so richly gives us all
Then in his presence you will not fall.
You will spend eternal life,
Walking with your Lord, side by side.
Mws R Writings 