"Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
> news:AaTYi.6218$4I.2370@trndny03...
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>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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>>> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:43:01 -0800, Nexis wrote:
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>>>> So...just how many of us are there?
>>>
>>> Enough to create another group, rec.food.cooking.diabetic ?
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>> There's already a diabetic food newsgroup. I believe Damsel started it,
>> but I could be wrong.
>>
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> In the book I was recommended to read 'The First Year', they highly
> recommend misc.health.diabetes as the newsgroup to garner info.
> alt.support.diabetes is just a lot of medicaleeze and people posting their
> daily BG numbers (sorry, I have enough to worry about taking my own) and
> although I understand the medicaleeze, to quote Joe Friday, 'Just the
> Facts, Ma'am'....the former, mhd, may have been okay in the beginning, but
> like rfc it is getting hard to find what you are looking for in amongst
> all the 'buy these cheapass sneakers from China' and 'I got good loving
> from this website' posts. I suggested to Andy that we might want to form
> our own little support group here among ourselves as we actually cook and
> understand more than the average bear with a high BG about measuring and
> planning and cooking to taste. Not a separate newsgroup, but just a group
> of us who can email each other with an 'attaboy' when needed or a shoulder
> to cry on.

That newsgroup is for the more technical aspects of diabetes. Good if you
want information. For support, go to alt.support.diabetes. Just ignore the
few trolls and wackos that are there. I have them in my killfile, so I
don't see all the crap.
>
> Hey Cathy, just to get some sort of count....maybe a survey? Are you
> diabetic? Then the follow up, Type 1 or Type 2.

That's a good idea.