GMO Soy

Years ago, soy products in the USA generally went from non-gmo to gmo.  That is, whereas up to that point, soy in all products at Harry's Grocery and at Walmart had been natural, subsequent products generally all contained genetically modified soy.  As I began to consume the latter, I found myself breaking out in hives.  Having definitely isolated the cause to be the gmo soy, I eliminated it from my diet and continued to enjoy natural soy wherever I could get it, hive-free.  If I happened to eat the gmo again, the hives came back.
If you are not clearly familiar with hives and what they are like, I hope you will read about it and become so, without having to experience it yourself.  They do not heal or stop itching in a short time.
By and by, I stopped doing soy regularly.
Last week, a hive appeared on the back of my hand.  It itched constantly but I didn't pay it much mind.  This week, hard-up for protein (didn't even have any beans), I searched out and consumed the last can of tuna (in oil - I always buy "in water") my son had left behind when his visit here ended.  A few hours later, 12 additional hives appeared on my arms and legs.
Then I thought about it.
I had tried a little of his tuna on our camping trip last week, just prior to the first hive appearing.
The tuna was canned in gmo soybean oil.
Well, There you go.
Update:  Now I estimate I have a total of at least 4,000 hives.  Mostly on elbows, wrists, knees and ankles.  These additional are smaller than the really large ones that first appeared.  The breakout seems to have peaked and is about wound down now.
Update:  Now they are on the palms of my hands and the insides of my forearms and fingers, and on the outsides of  my fingers.  I never had any kind of a thing on my palms before!  But it still seems to be winding down, although hives, as I might have said, do not stop itching ot go away in anybody's definition of a short time.

I was having tuna on leaf lettuce and then I sprinkled it heavy with ginger and garlic.  Winner!

Today I had a fish sandwich but I skipped the lettuce and fat spread.  All I put on the bread was pink wild-caught salmon from a can and a ton of black olives from a can.  NUM!

Sandwich Truck with a Lift Kit

I was complaining how well cranberries stick to peanut butter so that when making a butter, peanut butter and cranberry (open face) sandwich, you can't very well move them around and arrange them after they land on there, without pulling up divots and leaving bare patches of bread.  I finished making one and tried to pick it up.  With a laugh, as often happens, it leapt from my hands onto a dirty floor, landing face down, of course.  Awwwww.  But wait - it was like huge glass tractor wheels keeping the whole thing perfectly clean, robustly intact, and up off the floor!  I could have played hockey with it!  All i had to do was pick it up and of course, nothing stuck to the frozen cranberries, and nothing stuck to the floor!

Mmmmmm, so good.

BLT

There are times when a chef happens upon a dish that does not only taste great, it tastes like it was meant to be - the bacon, tomato and lettuce sandwich is a good example of this.

I had such a dish just now.

Grollet, heavy on the millet, lighter on the wheat and barley, amaranth about the same, and instead of actual "wheat," kamut.  Contrary to the usual, include a dash of sesame seed.  As usual, soak and sprout one day before steaming in the rice cooker.  Right when it finishes steaming, put a glob of it into a bowl with milk and raisins.

Cake and Eat It Too - wait - "Cake"?

I enjoy all of the after effects from my eating well more than I ever enjoyed eating, and I enjoy eating well too.

Nothing New

I'm never hungry, eating the way I do.  One of the most telling and important indications of a person's diabetic tendency is hunger.  If you aren't hungry and do not have a tendency to overeat, it's a good sign.  Otherwise, better check your blood sugar.

I am not hungry because I get the insulin I need.  Artificially.  And of secondary yet very significant importance, I eat only high-value food.

Without insulin, 'super food only' would do me no good.  Insulin enables digestion, including that of sugars.  Without it, you have more than excess sugar that can't get digested, but also every other vitamin and nutrient.  Thus hunger.  Starvation is a better word for it. 

Before I understood it, and before I had enough insulin,  I ate till the needle pegged and then ate a lot more and then threw up every night.  The feeling of starvation never left, it was constant throughout every day.  For 8 years.

High blood sugar and the damage it does is only one side effect of "Sugar" Diabetes.  The general problem of the disease is seldom discussed.

Most people are Type II though, and I am pretty much Type I, I think.  My doctors were never interested in determining it for certain.  I don't know if it's exactly the same experience with hunger for Type II folks.  I expect it is though.  Type I is inadequate insulin, Type II is insulin resistance, so I would expect the effect to be similar, except that in the case of Type II, the person can reduce their resistance through exercise and diet.  A Type I person can exercise till the cows come home and eat perfectly and they will still starve and suffer sugar damage as much as if they had stayed home on the couch, to the degree that they are insulin deficient.

So based on just my experience, I am certain I am at least predominantly Type I.  Which makes sense because I never lived the life they say causes Type II.

The rare times that my sugar doesn't want to come down, I suspect are times when I am temporarily more Type II than usual, due to lack of exercise or whatever.  I take shot after shot after shot, and it does no good till I get back to normal.  Happens like once a year or whatever.

People notice that the body works overtime to accommodate less-than-perfect discipline, and not when they have had good discipline for a while.  When they've been disciplined and then suddenly fall off the wagon, they hit the road and the rocks a lot harder than when they have been less-than-perfect for a while, and do the same things.  Catches the system off-guard.  I notice it myself.