Some of the links from my 'diabetes' file may be useful to you folks - even if you don't need to know all this RIGHT NOW, you may find a 'diet tip' or 2 to help. Long story short, if you don't lose the weight your chances of becoming type 2 diabetic are about 95% these days, thanks to our current crop of food additives, our lack of walking, etc...grow it and eat it, move it or lose it.
This fellow wrote a book called 'wheat belly' about losing wheat from your diet - he was interested in how sugar affected his cardiac patients and found that wheat was not good for 'em either. His blog has some good info - get the book from the lie-berry
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/
Some low glycemic foods - the 'glycemic index' shows how much the various sugars/chemistry of foods affects our body (mostly what gets into the blood and how fast it hits
http://type1diabetes.about.com/od/fo...Superfoods.htm
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1MqdI1...a-infographic/
Linus Pauling won a bunch of Nobel prizes for his work w/vitamin C - here's some info on 'micro-nutrients' that may affect what you eat, what vitamins you choose to take. It pays to have a clue on this stuff if you're already sick...and it might keep you from getting sick if you're not
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/
This fellow is the best diabetic writer I've found, for explaining stuff easy enough to understand the danged chemistry we're forced to live by as we lose weight
http://www.mendosa.com/
http://www.healthcentral.com/diabete...ng-blood-sugar
And here's some info on 'too much fruit sugar' the site owner is semi-nutso IMHO but not completely nuts so I read his stuff but bring an extra grain of salt, so to speak
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...y-18-2010.aspx