Advice on Diabetes - Overall Suggestions on Food in Disease Struggle of Serious Diabetics

Successful Disease Struggle and Advices
- Looking for one’s Suitable Living Style and Food.


I am not a doctor.
Upon my experience I have had, I should like to tell other diabetics that ‘they might as well live and enjoy the tastes they like,’ beyond the negative unconditional instructions like
Do not eat!
Do not do!
Do not wear!
so they may endure their long-striving lives against disease.
Just in that case, there will be fewer cases in which they give up as they feel bored in the middle of long-long-period struggle against disease.

In order to persevere in the long struggle against disease, temperance and repression alone is not the first priority.

Considering western patients with diabetes ‘have been living controlling their blood glucose level without eating boiled rice,’ you might understand what I am telling you from now on.
For me, coffee is more stimulative to the heart and the spinal nerve than beer and wine. I have tried some times to stop eating coffee for the sake of the heart and the spinal nerve.
Yet I am eating coffee.

For me, coffee is not what I drink but what I eat.
As I replace my breakfast by ‘icecream-coffee’ made by pouring 500~800cc of coffee into icecream all at once, the expression ‘eat’ is more correct.

The smell(fragrance) I like is coffee and mugwort.
There are times when I pour - a mug or so of - thick - made black coffee or mugwort-containing herb medicine into the bath water, while taking a bath.
What we hear often the ‘aroma therapy’ is a method of using the principle of having one’s mind and body comfortably refreshened by breathing her favorite fragrances into her deeper body. The aroma therapy is, a therapeutical way that the comfortably governed mood can heal one’s body and mind and even disease.

The bathing through coffee, which I often do, is also the one that applied this principle.

Have I planned my disease-struggle life on 1~2 years of term, I would have boiled coffee randomly by hook or crook.
But seeing it was not a disease struggle that will last only 1 or 2 years, I rather changed my disease struggle if possible in the direction of enjoying(?) life by making the best of what tastes I like.

There is no clear prediction for diabetics and any other progressive chronic patients of how long their disease-struggling periods will be left; nobody but God guesses if it is 10, 30, or 50 years.
This point needs be more seriously considered especially by the parents of childhood diabetics with very long-term disease struggle expectation, and by the young diabetics who are insulin-shot in the 20s or 30s, than other diabetic patients.

Alcohol is what I also apply in my long disease struggle.
Alcohol infiltrates into and spreads all over the body more quickly than pure water or ionized beverage. This property of alcohol is applied, if you eat a-bit-of-alcohol-added icecream, chocolate, bread, rice cake, fruit,.. in such situations as when you are tired, when you are totally exhausted, or when you are bored of food itself.
Even when I take Cheongsim(=chest-clearing) pills of herb medicine, I have it with wine. Water takes an long hour to get the pill ingredients to infiltrate into the body, whereas wine takes only 20~30 minutes to get it to spread into the whole body, I can feel - (in my case.)

I used to enjoy it, because not only of this property of alcohol, but also of the carefree feeling and relaxed moment of the body when I drank a small amount of alcohol (I am as weak to alcohol itself as I have to mix ice or juice into just 13-degree-or-so fruit wine).

Particularly in the old days of pent-up rage I suffered, I would often drink liquor to alleviate my inner passion somehow by the help of alcohol.
Alcohol was actually a big help to getting over those hard times, but things have changed since summer 2003 when my eyes turn for the worse. From then on, I had to refrain myself from drinking alcohol, which I had before moderately. For the sake of the body going for the worse this way, what next time do I have to refrain myself from...?
I feel I am in too hard a situation by now.

For the diabetics who have been insulin-injected for a long time, it is another pain to eat ‘what they dislike’ reluctantly.
In this case, rather than eating it under compulsion in a hard and extremely tired bodily condition and having an attack of indigestion, you may as well drink beer or wine to a moderate degree. And in so doing, if you recover and can take what amount of calorie you need for the day, you don’t have to evade this manner without reason.

Another common sense people don’t acknowledge about diabetes is, that wrong eating habits or high-caloried diet is worse than a moderate amount of alcohol intake.
This fact is what not only diabetics but also the entire citizens need to know. (This point is more seriously misunderstood by in proportion to religious people who pride themselves as a person of better ‘faith’ than other people.)

Meanwhile, you should be mindful that one needs some degree of self-restraint as concerns liquor.

In the past 4 years, my body and mind was so hard to bear that the frequency of drinking hard beverage has been increasing. By drinking liquor, my body and mind have gradually been loosened up and getting out of the pent-up rage inside myself to a degree. In the meantime, it has been hurting my joints, I’d like to add for other diabetics.

But the reason why I still drink liquor is, because by doing so I could better swallow any food I dislike in a hard-conditioned body and mind by the help of alcoholic spirits in the body, digest it more easily without an attack of indigestion while eating reluctantly, and make my mind more comfortable, as compared with the loss my joints might suffer due to alcohol. So I chose this manner. So I sometimes still enjoy.

Beyond the superstition and prejudice on specific foods “A is blindly good; B is blindly bad,” my eating habit and my life style is “By comparison between A and B, some is efficacious to some extent as compared with some another.”

And this attitude of my life is the wisdom that other diabetic patients are lacking.

Due to my chasing after this wisdom for the past days, I have been living through countless conflicts with people around.
Although I have been living in disgust against encountering with people itself, I am presently counseling to others that other diabetics too live as a ‘crazy guy’ by learning this wisdom, beyond myself alone being treated as a ‘crazy guy.’

If there is any diabetic of the readers who read this book, I would like to request that he or she adapt all the life theories and life methods into their own bodies and then live in their own manners of life, instead of blindly following others’ lifestyles.

- Speaking of diabetes in my homepage http://www.mryoum.com/ although either is the same diabetes, the writer assigns rather more pages for the seriously diabetic patients who have been suffering from so many kinds of complications that diabetes brought through its injections for 10, 20, 30.., compared to the patients who are latent with trivial diabetic symptoms, who are in the early stage less than 5 years since insulin shot, and who haven’t yet developed special complications.