PUSHING BACK AGE
Sweet things are reserved for dessert. Since a diabetic's
tissues are not absorbing sugar, they crave it more and
more. As the diabetes improves they crave it less. For des-
sert, serve 1 tbs. of honey to satisfy this craving without
endangering their blood sugar regulation. It can be used in
the hot milk or in other ways. Undercooking the vegetables
also helps slow down the sugar release. Never serve
mashed potatoes for this reason.
The drinking water should always have a little vitamin C,
lemon juice or vinegar added, and 1 tsp. honey if desired.
- Asparagus, potato, raw salad, fowl dish, fruit, water with
vinegar and honey, 1 cup hot milk.
The asparagus can be fresh or canned. Bake the potato:
not in aluminum foil, not baked until fluffy. Don't let the
skin be eaten. Use genuine butter, only, or a homemade sour
cream dressing (see Recipes). Fresh chopped chives may
be added but no regular sour cream since this is very high
in tyramine, a brain toxin.
The raw salad should be chopped small enough to be
edible by dentures. Use homemade salad dressing with a
preference for oil and vinegar styles.
The fowl dish should be very well done, never “fast
food”.
For dessert, fresh fruit chunks dipped in a homemade
honey sauce (honey, water and cinnamon). Less sweets are
consumed if you dip the fruit rather than pour the sauce
over. Limit the total to 1 tbs. honey. Don't serve grapes or
strawberries due to the intense mold problem.
- Soup, sandwich, fruit, hot milk, water.
Soup should be homemade from scratch. Add bones and 1
tbs. vinegar (white distilled) or a tomato to the kettle to
ensure some calcium leaches out of the bones. A fish
chowder serves this purpose very well, too.
