Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Tag: diabetes
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All the Diets
There I am eating a fish taco in Malibu many years ago. Was still drinking wine, too. Those were the days (when my gut health was still sturdy enough to allow wine). The topic is not wine, I promise. Nor is it whining. I don’t drink wine and I am fine. I also am vegetarian…
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Hopes for 2019
On January 1 the calendar’s a blank slate. Another chance to get things right. I always feel excited in a new year, ready to dig in to healthier eating and other habits, but I wouldn’t call these things resolutions as much as common sense. I’d just spent December in an orgy of sugar. It seems…
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Dieting During the Holidays
I am always on a diet, so dieting during the holidays is not new to me. But the diet I’m on now is different. Some of the foods I’ve given up in order to reverse the diabetes and lactose intolerance trends in my body are: sugar, dairy, alcohol, meat, and oil. What I eat impacts…
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Results!
I took notes so I could report in an intelligent way about how my body responded sugar-wise to the plant-based whole food diet after six weeks. The news is good. The test my doctor uses to track my insulin levels is an A1c blood test. A normal number (not diabetic or pre-diabetic) is 5.8. As…
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Finding Right Food
Saw my doctor a couple of months ago. Tomorrow, I’ll see her again. She’ll check my numbers and then I’ll know. Has all the work I’ve been putting in to a plant based whole food diet helped bring my sugar down? I know it’s helped with dairy intolerance because the symptoms of–and relief from–that don’t…