Since I was 10 years old and realized what diabetes was doing to my Grandfather, I eliminated adding white refined sugar to foods and beverages. I don’t often eat Jello since my complete recovery, but it was likely regular and not artificial sweeteners. As a side note, my college roommates Mother was a big consumer of artificial sweeteners. She cooked, baked and used many packets in her tea and coffee. He and his wife used to tell me the excessive amount she used daily. She developed pancreatic cancer four months after I did in 2012. We were both stage IV. She passed within 4 months. Mine was a germline mutation. She was not found to have a germline mutation.

As far as diet, I became health conscious in high school and began eating low-fat and non-fat meals, cut out all soda. In 1989 when I moved to Switzerland, I gave up eating red meat because of mad cow disease. I do eat lean cuts of red meat about once per month and I do eat desserts but ones without excessive sugar. I essentially stay away from fried, fatty foods and processed meats as well as from the harder to digest vegetables that are comprised of oligosaccharides. If I do eat them, I will take the OTC product Beano as it is the enzyme alpha-d-galactosidase which is the enzyme required to digest oligosaccharides found in certain vegetables.