[entropy12]

Over 1 million years of evolution, our ancestors walked many miles every day to find food. And they had to chase fast galloping herbivores to hunt for food.

Now our exercise is limited to walking to the parking lot to get into the car, for 50% of Americans.

Here is what I am doing to keep my blood sugar under control: Eating only whole grain bread, 3 servings of green vegetables and 2 servings of protein (eggs, chicken, turkey, pork sausage), 2 fresh fruits, yogurt, nuts and lentils. Avoiding potatoes, white rice, any bread which is not whole grain, fruit juices, all sweets. My dessert is fancy Majdul dates and plump prunes with half and half. Especially avoiding anything which has high fructose corn syrup.

[Vermont Lt]

Those dates will kill ya...they are pure sugar. Good sugar. But the body breaks it down like bad carbs.

I eat a couple of dates. And my sugar spikes.

[Graybeard58]

Here is what I am doing to keep my blood sugar under control: Eating only whole grain bread, 3 servings of green vegetables and 2 servings of protein (eggs, chicken, turkey, pork sausage), 2 fresh fruits, yogurt, nuts and lentils. Avoiding potatoes, white rice, any bread which is not whole grain, fruit juices, all sweets. My dessert is fancy Majdul dates and plump prunes with half and half. Especially avoiding anything which has high fructose corn syrup.

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Or I can eat like my mother does. She eats whatever she wants, whenever she wants it and in the amounts she wants, I’m not saying she stuffs herself, she doesn’t but she’s not diabetic, not over weight, her cholesterol levels are perfect and she’s 95 years old.

All in the genes.

[Stentor]

My dessert is fancy Majdul dates and plump prunes with half and half.

Do you wear a Fez and spend your time looking for a bird figurine?

[Bigg Red]

And, of course, your diet will work for everyone else, right?