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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kesun" data-source="post: 1135438" data-attributes="member: 39776">Hi [USER=285561]@TheMiziko[/USER]  I'm guessing from your name and your question that you live in Japan? My diabetes was diagnosed when I still lived in an Asian rice-with-everything culture, and I did find rice very hard to give up.  I didn't try brown rice (it wasn't available as far as I could find out), but long-grain, short-grain and basmati, whether steamed, boiled or fried, by the bowl or in the form of congee, nian-gao, wontons or rice noodles - ALL raised my blood sugar.In the end I tried the mind experiment of substituting salad for rice - I mean, I thought about salad whenever I used to think of rice, I ordered accordingly at restaurants and I asked my helper to serve salad instead of rice or noodles.It was a bit odd at first, but surprisingly quickly I got used to having, say, sesame chicken or stir-fried beef or ma-po beancurd served on a green salad.  And my blood sugar came down beautifully.That's pretty much what I still do, though now I've moved to England I have to resist potatoes, bread, spaghetti, etc. instead of just rice and noodles. But salad is still the staple of my diet and my blood sugar is still under control.Kate</blockquote>

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