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The Australian Diabetes Council has put out Healthy Living with Diabetes which is not too bad. Available via Amazon

Yep.... Heading of to the Rowley Shoals next week for a week. First time out there, having a few days in Broome first... Also a first for me. Looking fwd to the trip, b....y cold in Melb

Correct, I don't eat bread and carefully count grains like Quinoa, brown basmati, burghul etc. one quarter of a cup is about max. But enough to give a nice flavour to a salad. I seem to be able to avoid a post prandial peak. My point though was for folk who have difficulty tracking or counting...

I have a Nutribullet bender and stuff some spinach, celery, nuts and various lowish sugar fruit etc and blitz up a drink.. Tastes great and is really quick

Be careful with High fat diet (unless poly/mono unsaturated) if you have cardio problems

Trick with carbs is to keep them low, but make sure they are low GI ie Brown basmati for rice rather than jasmine which has about twice the GI, this means that absorption rate is lower for basmati and therefor conversion to sugar much slower .... Stops a quick glucose peak. Keeping carbs low...

A large number of folk with cardio risk use statins I've used them for many years (40mg) cholesterol level so low have dropped to 20mg. Recommend that you check out food that have incorporated plant sterols Wazza

Hi, just found out that I've got type 2... Seems that a beneficial diet and life style change will do some good... Was abit of a shock, just going through pre and post meal testing to determine trends, feel like a pin cushion. Premeal sheens to average about 9.5 mml and post meal about 13 to 15...