Excuse me, waiter, nobody here ordered diabetes.

Well, this should be interesting. One of us has to start following a diet suitable for someone with diabetes, while the other of us scoffs at what shows up on the meal plans for diabetics. Seriously, the day I count out 12 grapes for lunch is the day I quit eating grapes.

Add in conflicting and illogical data and you've got a headache...okay, I've got a headache. (tangent: Why isn't there a diet for migraines that works?) One site says eat a fair amount of carbs, listing things like wholemeal bread and brown rice as good things, while the next says wholemeal bread and brown rice have high glycemic indexes and thus should be eaten less. Then there are sentences like this:

The glycemic load measures the effect of the glycemic index of a food times its available carbohydrate content in grams in a standard serving.

                          source: David Mendoa's Glycemic Index info

To quote Chevy Chase, I understood there would be no math questions.

I wonder if Kalyn's Kitchen has crib sheets on how the whole glycemic index thing works...must go check...