"Manda Ruby" wrote
"cshenk" wrote:

>> I'd like to believe I am smart. At least it makes me feel good to think
>> so
>> ;-)

> You are more than smart

Mostly I've lived in other cultures so follow your _meaning_ better than
most. Because my experiences have been largely asian extraction for that,
it makes it a lot easier.

>> Type B or II, tends to be more diet related on development. Type A or I,
>> you are born with. All of them come in levels of degree.

>> > All 3 or 4 siblings of my mother (except my mom) had type II

>> This is the common pattern for pre-diabetic sounding. With good diet
>> control, it may never shift to diabetes or if it does, it will be much
>> later

> My Mom never got any symptoms until in her last years. It could be
> that she learned from her older sibling early enough to be careful
> with her diet and never got to that direction.

Diabetes is known as a 'silent killer' for good reason. Many have no
symptoms or such small ones, they can damage themselves for years with no
awareness that anything is wrong.

>> pattern of needs. I'll try below to show what helps me but ou will have
>> to
>> judge best in how you feel, as to what works best for you.

> Yeah.

Right and it's because there is too much variation. Anyone who tells you
otherwise, doesnt know what they are talking about. I would however advise
you drop the glucose pills. It's a temp solution no matter which way your
system is and not recommended for long term use. It 'shocks' the system and
your aim, regardless of type is to hit a steady stream.

>> Grin, I knew I was different from my friends by age 8. Mom even warned us
>> kids but didnt have the money to test us as long as we ate right so it
>> was
>> no problem.

> Oh, I was aware by 9th grade how I'd get shaky but it was only around
> 25, I cooreakteds with the term "hypoglycemia". Still, young enough
> not to care too much beyond eating on time though , just out of habit,
> I would't buy white bread and also ate fast food in very limited
> amount. My weakness was sweet. I always had ice cream and frozen
> waffles and stuff like that.

I found that sweet foods after an initial infatuation (after moving out from
home, Mom never had much sweets around), turned me off. Ok, I like a little
chocolate now and again, but little else except in small amounts now and
again.

White bread doesnt bother me but i find i like it best if I add other
healthy things to it such as rye or cheese (I am standard American mutt
meaning mostly European and not lactose intolerant). I make my own bread
with a breadmachine. It may not be as fancy and a real hand kneaded one,
but it's got good ingredients and no wierd preservatives.

If you would like to learn how, I can teach you how to do such with a
breadmaker machine. I have back issues that preclude other methods so can't
help much with those.

>> > familes. We didn't eat rice for breakfast at all and also our

>> I think I follow what you mean better than some others here. Lived in
>> Asia
>> and for the rest 'quality food' may not be quite as it sounds.

> Well, I knew you'd get it and since I wa sresponding to your post, I
> decided not to spend too much time elaborating. In the past, I have
> been amused in hearing some Americans asking "You eat white rice,
> right?" as if that's the only thing we ate. The meat and seafood we
> ate were not full of antibiotic nor the vegenatables just looking big
> with no nutrition.

Grin, was no need to elaborate, correct. I also get well the 'vegetables
looking big with no nutrition'. Eggplant is a classic there.
I can't stand 'American eggplant'. It's just bitter and watery ilk. It's
actually a european version but grows huge herwe and is mostly water and
bitter bits.

Not all the USA market stuff is bad though.

>> > especially the first year. I was not quite 17 yet at the time. I
>> > don't know whether that had a long term effect on me or not.

>> Probably not, just made you 'aware of it'. The earlier eating masked it.

I think so too.

So can I suggest? I went back to what Mom fed me. Then, I carefully
branched out.
That worked for me.

>> > I have heard about a new type of test and so will check into doing the

>> Thats how it is. You may be shifting and need to take care. Please do! If
>> you swing too far too often, they say such flips to diabetic.

> Well, I guess, I should avoid white rice meals to a very few special
> occasions and even then carry some cooked brown rice when I got to
> those houses

Although brown rice is considered 'poor man food' in reality, it has a bit
more nutrition. May I also suggest that the nutrition value is the same in
the Texas grown basmati (brown or white) and red rices as well as the
California Calrose. American Basmati won't have quite the aroma level but
the India ones tended to add harmful perfumes to make them so.

My family won't eat brown rice due to the extra taste of nuttyness it has.
I consider that extra taste a plus in some dishes or eaten alone but they
hate it.

(on sister's thin rice noodle dish)
>> Would that be the very very thin 'glass' noodle?

> No.

Ok, then not sure of the type. LOL, I don't know everything!

>> complex carb. You may find Udon works though, that's a fairly fat wheat
>> noodle. Lower slower absorbtion than glass noodle.

> I have had Udon but not crazy about it.

Ah, Japanese claim it cures all ills ;-) We love them here. A favored dish
is udon in dashi (Japan version of a fish stock) with miso and spinach or
other green and maybe egg added. Seafood meats normally added.

> I avoid all rice noodle. I did eat a litle bit of rice noodle she
> brought but only after I ate my brown rice and goat meat currey she
> brought.

Ohh! I've never had goat meat curry. I'd like to try goat but have never
seen it in a market here or the places I have traveled. That or it was
labeled in some other language so I didnt know what it was.

>> Here one for you to avoid. Tapioca noodles. Not good for you I bet.

> A few years ago, I was buying tapioca pearls and cooked with Asian
> Yam in coconut milk and sugar. One of our favorite growing up. It's
> been 2 1/2 years ago, I stopped buying it. I only got to knw hpow to
> cook stuff that that about 4-5 years ago. Good because, I might have
> cooked more otherwise. And I never used rice noodle much either. Just
> wasn't crazy about it.

I find all recipes for tapioca are too sweet and 3-4 hours later, I don't
feel good. It's on my personal 'off list'.

> I tend to like noodles that doesn't feel too starchy. In fact, I have
> bought thin spaghetti made form 50% wheat and used as noodle and it
> wpkre dotu really well. So, I buy that occasiaonlly. My main sources
> of carb is wheat tortilla, wheat bread and brown rice. I have yet to
> make Naan. I have a round pizza stone but I want a small rectangular
> one - 10inx7in - for the toaster oven. Amazing has it but I heard that
> it breaks in shipping because of their packaging.

The spinach added noodles suit us for many things. I like to toss them with
a little garlic and butter and add black peper and eat just like that.

>> we are a bit low for USA standards on meat here at our home, but we
>> eat 'good stuff' by any Asian definition.

> From what I learned from TV commercial, Americans eat meat a lot but I
> haven't met any American who eat more meat than my family. But then, I
> am not oriental Asian. (I am not going to worry abut PC on
> "oriental".)

Understood at the first. You are not from the eastern coastal asian set
exactly, more the Burma/Indonesia set. Asian but not same as 'oriental' in
what folks here think. They tend here to think that is just China and Japan
and might add Korea and Vietnam, maybe Thailand.

If I have it right your cuisine leads more to Sambals and high chile uses?
More curry and less of the blander foods.

>> Meat here is used probably like you are used to, almost a garnish. 3-4oz
>> a
>> person but well prepared is our normal.

> No, we ate beef all the time as well as rooster and duck meat. My
> father used to hunt (for fun) until the military took over and took
> away his "whatever that rifle is called" but he still would find ways
> to get all kinds of meat, some birds I don't know the ename in English
> as well as quails.

Grin, sounds like I'd like your family feeding!

> May be my family ate too much meat but my parents liked fish a lot and
> so they probably eat more balanced into their older age than I do
> because seafood here sucks and I don't eat as much as I should. Know
> that I am talking about my family having access to seafood that got to
> the destiation in less than 6 hours.

I am so greatful that we have a local market here with good fresh seafood.
Live fish in the bottom tank and the rest was probably flopping same day.

(on potatoes)
> Well, if only the skin. The potato meat of Idaho seems starchy. The
> potato back home was so tasty, not like here. But then, may be my
> family bought a certain kind f potatoe. There might be more than oen
> type over there too. I knew squat about cooking when I left home.

There's lots of types here so you may find what you are looking for.
Although I pine for a few Japan types i don't see here, overall I'm happy
and able to find most or a suitable replacement for them. Try some of the
other versions.

Had to trim! Too much message!