Hi & welcome, Mark!  Recently you wrote in a message to Daryl Stout:   
      
   DS>  I think they're going to put me on a "south beach diet"...   
   DS>  never heard of that, but I doubt it means going to Coconut   
   DS>  Grove, Florida to eat.  :P   
      
   ml>  really??   
      
      
              I'd heard of it because a nearby pharmacy carries a bunch of "lower   
   glycemic index" treats & keeps them where they are very difficult to ignore if   
   you're waiting at the cash desk.  Although I wasn't sure where South Beach is,   
   the Wiki article explains how the diet got its name.   
      
              I turned intuitively to a low-carb diet as soon as I was old enough   
   to decide for myself what to put on my plate.  In layman's terms, my diagnosis   
   is "you have weird kidneys" and in those days all the GP could do was instruct   
   me to memorize the name of a condition which rated at best only a few lines in   
   medical dictionaries so other doctors wouldn't go looking for Bright's Disease   
   or diabetes or something when I was otherwise in good health.   
      
              I suppose I'm more fortunate than many others in that when I try to   
   eat what doesn't work for me, my body usually lets me know within a few hours.   
   Years ago I mentioned to a nurse, who was a friend of a friend, that I had the   
   same condition one of her patients had just been hospitalized for & asked what   
   she knew about it.  She promised she'd get back to me but never did.  I wasn't   
   too surprised because I realized, from the look on her face, that she couldn't   
   understand why I was still alive & kicking although I'd broken the rules.  ;-)   
      
      
      
   ml>  start here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Beach_Diet and then   
   ml>  follow up from here https://www.google.com/search?q=south+beach+diet   
      
      
              Thankyou.  Briefly, my take on the situation here is that the South   
   Beach diet &/or a low-carb diet might help Daryl keep his blood sugar level on   
   an even keel... and thus postpone or avoid taking "diabetic" drugs later.  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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