I’ve added a few new features to the blog. In the lower right hand corner of each post you will see a small icon with Print PDF written next to it. If you click on this button it will open a screen that shows the post, allows you to alter it by changing the font size or removing the image and allows you to print it off. This will allow you to print off any recipes you may want to try.

Due to a huge number of spam posts that are constantly being sent in lately I’ve started using a new plugin to catch and prevent them from being posted. If you are commenting and your posts aren’t getting through please let me know. I’m hoping that reader comments won’t get deleted when the spammers get weeded out.

For those who would like to comment I’ve enabled to site to use CommentLuv. If you choose to register then you will be able to pick a post from the last 10 you’ve posted to your blog and CommentLuv will include a link.

I added in a new page under the Resources, Tips and Tools page. It has a list of some of my favorite low carb products and books . Many of the low carb products listed can often be found at your local grocery store or health food store. But, in case you can’t locate them, I’ve included links to take you to the various sites where I buy mine.

Now on to the stories that I’ve read over this past week that blow my mind, give me a headache and make my eyes bleed!

Poor Paula Dean! Now that she’s come out with the fact that she is a type 2 diabetic it seems the blogosphere is on fire with stories about her. I think things would have been different if she didn’t share this info in one breath and in another tell us she’s now being compensated to be a spokesperson for an expensive drug. Yet it seems that it’s business as usual when it comes to her cooking show.  Someone even started posting a list of her recipes that she’s been making on her Paula’s Home Cooking show since her announcement: Check them out at Daily Deen. Somethings just never change.

Here’s another great one: Dreamfield’s pasta company has launched a new program to spread awareness of type 2 diabetes and recognize those “DFF’s” (diabetic friends forever instead of BFF’s or best friends forever) who help others with the disease. Of course part of the program is to help educate type 2′s: 
“on the value of making smart health and wellness choices like exercising more and incorporating better-for-you food options — like Dreamfields high-fiber/low-digestible carb pasta — whenever possible. “

If you really want to be a DFF then tell your friends, family and loved ones that even eating Dreamfield’s pasta -whenever possible – is not going to help them control their blood sugar levels. There is no guarantee that this pasta has a lower glycemic index in diabetics so you could be thinking your getting 5 digestible carbs but actually end up with much more. Their own testing procedure pagestates that the people they test the glycemic index of their product were excluded if they had any metabolic conditions with impaired carbohydrate metabolism (diabetes). Hmmmm….your selling this product to diabetics yet you haven’t tested it on diabetics to determine if they breakdown this carb based product the same way as those who are not impaired? Personally, if you want to eat pasta go for the regular stuff. At least your already anticipating the higher carb count and plan for it in your diet. With Dreamfield’s you think according to their claims that you are getting 5 grams of carbs but could end up with far more with the consequence being a huge spike in blood sugar that you never planned for.

Finally, I’ll end on a story that actually doesn’t make me want to bang my head on the desk. Check out this type 1 diabetic telling it like it is – it’s not the butter, burgers, eggs or bacon that hurts diabetics. It’s the pasta, bread, flour and sugar that’s the main cause.

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