I am a diabetic. My father was a diabetic ,and it contributed to his death. His first stroke was at my last semester in college and I had started to work on a masters degrees . Since my brother was just starting college , I had to leave when the semester was over. Dad did not want to change his diet, so he gradually got worse with another stroke in a couple of years and a third from which he didn’t recover,
I was diagnosed with diabetes about 2006.
At the time I had my second cancer problem . I am now. 90 years old and a 14 year cancer survivor. About 2008 , my a1c was closing in on 7, and my weight was over 200 lb . Dr told me I needed to lose some weight and change my diet. So i starred reading up on diet. Changed my diet gradually to eliminate foods that were contributing to my a 1 c . With my diet. Changed my a 1 c dropped gradually until
It is now 6 and my weight is. 154 . It only takes a desire to live. My diet has plenty of good fruit and other foods like chicken and whole grain cereal and bread that is sugar free , but very little red meat,