I’m trying to note diabetes at least once a week, often with a diabetic friendly, If you are pre-diabetic or concerned you might be, here are some foods from Yahoo that you can integrate into your diet to help your blood sugar:
Non-starchy vegetables
Make
non-starchy vegetables the star of your plate, taking up half of it.
'For anybody at risk of diabetes, it's
important to take your vegetable intake to the next level,' Wright
says. 'Balancing your plate with half vegetables will fill you up
without loading you down with tons of carbs.' Credit the fibre and water
in the vegetables for helping keep you satisfied.
Leafy greens
All non-starchy vegetables are good, but leafy greens may pack a more powerful punch. In a
review of six studies,
researchers found that consuming 1.35 servings (about 1 1/3 cups raw or
2/3 cup cooked) of leafy greens daily was associated with a 14 percent
reduced risk of developing type
2 diabetes compared to eating only 0.2 servings daily.
Whole fruit
'Whole
fruit is nothing but good for people who have prediabetes,' Wright
says. Just don't consume produce in the
form of juice or smoothies. 'Though a smoothie does give one a
concentrated source of nutrients, they are often packed with calories
that don’t satisfy our hunger as there is little fibre in them,' Denison
says. So rather than drinking your fruit, eat it,
spacing it out over your day.
Whole grains
Eating whole grains has been shown to cause
blood sugar levels to rise more slowly after a meal and reduce the
risk of type 2 diabetes. The fibre in whole grains slows the digestion of carbs, reducing the demand for insulin. Whole grains also contain
antioxidants and anti-inflammatory nutrients that may also play a role in helping prevent diabetes.
prevent diabetes.
Legumes
In a study published in the journal
Clinical Nutrition,
researchers followed the diets of more than 3,000 adults who didn't
have type 2 diabetes for more than
four years. They discovered that people with the highest consumption of
legumes – especially lentils –had the lowest risk of diabetes.
Replacing half a serving of eggs, bread, rice, or baked potato with
legumes daily also was associated with lower risk of
diabetes incidence. All legumes, which includes lentils and all types
of beans, are high in fibre and a good source of protein.
Healthy fats
Like carbs, fats are about the issue of two Qs: quality and quantity, Wright says. Unsaturated fats have been linked
to
improved insulin resistance.
Choose sources such as nuts, seeds, olive oil, canola oil, and avocado,
but be mindful of portions since fats are calorically dense. Moderate
amounts of fat at your meals
also helps boost satiety.
Lean protein
Protein helps you feel fuller for longer. It also slows digestion so your blood sugar rises and also falls more
gradually after a meal. Choose fish, plant-based proteins such as beans and legumes, poultry, and lean beef.
Okay, Ann Garrison (BLACK AGENDA REPORT) has an interview with Laura Wells who is running for Congress -- she'll be challenging the incumbent Barbara Lee in the November election:
AG:Barbara Lee has been a hero to many in District 13 and beyond ever since she voted against the Patriot Act and the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force in the “War on Terror,” right after 9/11. I know you’d have done the same, but you differ with her on many issues. Could you summarize those?
LW: I support:
- a real healthcare system, Medicare for All, nothing short of that;
- the abolition of student debt, which is entirely doable;
- public banks, not bailing out and strengthening Wall Street banks (Barbara Lee voted for the bank bailout);
- vastly reducing military spending, including closing almost 1000 U.S. foreign military bases;
- never voting for the bloated military budgets;
- reversing the militarization, and stopping the impunity, of our police forces (Barbara Lee voted to transfer surplus military equipment to domestic police);
- stopping the horrific treatment of immigrants and refugees;
- supporting efforts to tax the rich;
- the Green New Deal, the transformation of our economy from a war economy to a sustainable economy, as advanced by our Green Party presidential candidates in 2016;
AG: California Senator Dianne Feinstein and District 12 Representative Nancy Pelosi have both refused to debate Green challengers, and in 2008 Nancy Pelosi said she "has a day job," so she couldn’t make time to debate independent candidate Cindy Sheehan. Barbara Lee, however, is much closer to her progressive, grassroots constituents. Do you think she’ll debate you?
LW: Well, if she doesn’t, we’ll have to ask, why not? We need a real debate in California, not between the corporate Democratic and Republican Parties, but a debate between a Democratic Party team player and a Green Party no-corporate-money candidate. This will give people a chance to really dig into the issues, and the options that we have. There are solutions.
As a Green, I would point out that there is no excuse for problems that we take for granted in the wealthiest country in the world. No excuse for the obscene disparity in wealth and income, or for the lack of real justice for all people. What has the two-party system done to ensure that people have the basics? BASICS, like housing, healthcare, meaningful work with a decent income, a good environment, and opportunities for our next generations. We need to put these things on the table in a debate. If they’re not on the table, then we are denied the possibility of even looking at solutions.
AG:Barbara Lee has been a hero to many in District 13 and beyond ever since she voted against the Patriot Act and the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force in the “War on Terror,” right after 9/11. I know you’d have done the same, but you differ with her on many issues. Could you summarize those?
LW: I support:
- a real healthcare system, Medicare for All, nothing short of that;
- the abolition of student debt, which is entirely doable;
- public banks, not bailing out and strengthening Wall Street banks (Barbara Lee voted for the bank bailout);
- vastly reducing military spending, including closing almost 1000 U.S. foreign military bases;
- never voting for the bloated military budgets;
- reversing the militarization, and stopping the impunity, of our police forces (Barbara Lee voted to transfer surplus military equipment to domestic police);
- stopping the horrific treatment of immigrants and refugees;
- supporting efforts to tax the rich;
- the Green New Deal, the transformation of our economy from a war economy to a sustainable economy, as advanced by our Green Party presidential candidates in 2016;
AG: California Senator Dianne Feinstein and District 12 Representative Nancy Pelosi have both refused to debate Green challengers, and in 2008 Nancy Pelosi said she "has a day job," so she couldn’t make time to debate independent candidate Cindy Sheehan. Barbara Lee, however, is much closer to her progressive, grassroots constituents. Do you think she’ll debate you?
LW: Well, if she doesn’t, we’ll have to ask, why not? We need a real debate in California, not between the corporate Democratic and Republican Parties, but a debate between a Democratic Party team player and a Green Party no-corporate-money candidate. This will give people a chance to really dig into the issues, and the options that we have. There are solutions.
As a Green, I would point out that there is no excuse for problems that we take for granted in the wealthiest country in the world. No excuse for the obscene disparity in wealth and income, or for the lack of real justice for all people. What has the two-party system done to ensure that people have the basics? BASICS, like housing, healthcare, meaningful work with a decent income, a good environment, and opportunities for our next generations. We need to put these things on the table in a debate. If they’re not on the table, then we are denied the possibility of even looking at solutions.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for Wednesday:
Wednesday, June 27, 2018. Is ISIS defeated is the bigger question before arguing over credit for it's alleged defeat.
Starting with David DeGraw:
Staying with bombs being dropped, the US Defense Dept announced the following yesterday:
On June 18, coalition military forces conducted two strikes consisting of two engagements against ISIS targets near Rutbah. The strikes engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS vehicle.
On June 19, coalition military forces conducted two strikes consisting of three engagements against ISIS targets:
-- Near Rutbah, a strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit.
-- Near Kisik, a strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit.
On June 20, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of three engagements against ISIS targets near Rutbah. The strike destroyed three ISIS caves.
On June 21, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of one engagement against ISIS targets near Tal Afar. The strike destroyed an ISIS tunnel.
There were no reported strikes in Iraq on June 22.
On June 23, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of one engagement against ISIS targets near Basheer. The strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS-held building.
There were no reported strikes in Iraq on June 24.
Now let's stop a minute for a claim that pops up in e-mails from time to time. US President Donald Trump has not defeated ISIS. ISIS remains. Every now and then someone e-mails the public e-mail account insisting that we (this site) are not giving Donald credit for defeating ISIS and neither is the media. ISIS has not been defeated. Go back to the so-called 'liberation' (destruction) of Mosul. We did not run with the lie that ISIS was defeated. We noted that their original plan was never to seize cities. That's not why they came into being. Because Iraq was run so poorly (Nouri al-Maliki), ISIS was able to seize control of cities.
If there's some outlet you're watching or reading that's claimed ISIS has been defeated? By all means, slam them for not giving Donald credit for that. But we have never said ISIS was defeated -- and it's not defeated -- no matter how lazy some outlets are.
Not only is the US still dropping bombs on Iraq, supposedly to target ISIS, but ISIS continues fighting on the ground in Iraq. For example, Mohammed Ebraheem (IRAQI NEWS) reports:
Six Iraqi pro-government fighters were killed and wounded Wednesday in an attack launched by Islamic State on a village in Kirkuk.
A security source told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper that “IS militants stormed al-Bashir village in southern Kirkuk, and clashed with the security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi fighters deployed there for two hours.”
“The fierce clashes between the two sides left a member of al-Hashd al-Shaabi dead and five others wounded,” according to the source.
On the topic of the militias -- al-Hashd al-Shaabi -- let's again note this Tweet:
This is not the first time that the Hashd al Shaabi has publicly threatened US troops (most recently, they did so last November).
These threats are among the reasons that the US government designates
Hashd al Shaabi as a terrorist organization. Of course, Hashd al-Shaabi
is also part of the PMU (militias) and they came in second in the May
12th national elections in Iraq.
Bryant Harris (AL-MONITOR) reported earlier this month:
Starting with David DeGraw:
Here's
a 20 minute interview that I just did w/ Lee Camp. We discuss the
latest news on the unaccounted for $21 Trillion & the insanity of
dropping 121 bombs a day... (Watch Video)
*
I haven't been able to keep Changemaker.Media online without insanely
long load times, another topic we discuss in this interview. You can
watch the full interview via YouTube here.
There are two short excerpts from the interview posted to Facebook...
- 2 Minute Version Here
- 5 Minute Version Here
Staying with bombs being dropped, the US Defense Dept announced the following yesterday:
On June 18, coalition military forces conducted two strikes consisting of two engagements against ISIS targets near Rutbah. The strikes engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS vehicle.
On June 19, coalition military forces conducted two strikes consisting of three engagements against ISIS targets:
-- Near Rutbah, a strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit.
-- Near Kisik, a strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit.
On June 20, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of three engagements against ISIS targets near Rutbah. The strike destroyed three ISIS caves.
On June 21, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of one engagement against ISIS targets near Tal Afar. The strike destroyed an ISIS tunnel.
There were no reported strikes in Iraq on June 22.
On June 23, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of one engagement against ISIS targets near Basheer. The strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS-held building.
There were no reported strikes in Iraq on June 24.
Now let's stop a minute for a claim that pops up in e-mails from time to time. US President Donald Trump has not defeated ISIS. ISIS remains. Every now and then someone e-mails the public e-mail account insisting that we (this site) are not giving Donald credit for defeating ISIS and neither is the media. ISIS has not been defeated. Go back to the so-called 'liberation' (destruction) of Mosul. We did not run with the lie that ISIS was defeated. We noted that their original plan was never to seize cities. That's not why they came into being. Because Iraq was run so poorly (Nouri al-Maliki), ISIS was able to seize control of cities.
If there's some outlet you're watching or reading that's claimed ISIS has been defeated? By all means, slam them for not giving Donald credit for that. But we have never said ISIS was defeated -- and it's not defeated -- no matter how lazy some outlets are.
Not only is the US still dropping bombs on Iraq, supposedly to target ISIS, but ISIS continues fighting on the ground in Iraq. For example, Mohammed Ebraheem (IRAQI NEWS) reports:
Six Iraqi pro-government fighters were killed and wounded Wednesday in an attack launched by Islamic State on a village in Kirkuk.
A security source told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper that “IS militants stormed al-Bashir village in southern Kirkuk, and clashed with the security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi fighters deployed there for two hours.”
“The fierce clashes between the two sides left a member of al-Hashd al-Shaabi dead and five others wounded,” according to the source.
On the topic of the militias -- al-Hashd al-Shaabi -- let's again note this Tweet:
Bryant Harris (AL-MONITOR) reported earlier this month:
Which makes for interesting relations between the governments of Iraq and the US.
Shi'ite cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr came in first in the
elections, followed by the militias, followed by current prime minister
Hayder al-Abadi. Moqtada and the head of the militias, Hadi al-Ameri,
teamed up. Now they have been joined by Hayder al-Abadi. 163 seats are
needed to form a government -- seats in Parliament. Those three
represent 143 seats. (That's a CORRECTION to my math on Monday.) They
are twenty seats shy of forming the government.
«May 12’s Iraqi parliamentary election led to a surprising result, with cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s bloc winning a plurality. Sadr, a nationalist with long opposition to both US and...
Although Abadi and the US were
deeply disappointed by the result of the election, he could emerge as a
compromise candidate for prime minister. Sadr cannot aspire to the post
because he is not a member of parliament.
Sadr, who led two violent
uprisings against the US and whose followers killed hundreds of Sunnis
during inter-sectarian warfare, has projected himself as an
anti-sectarian man of the people. His electoral alliance, which included
communists, secularists and Sunnis, rejected all foreign intervention
and promised to fight corruption, build schools and hospitals and
provide for the poor.
What's in it for Hayder? Possibly he will remain prime minister. IRAQI NEWS notes:
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has agreed to fulfill a condition set by Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to retain his post as prime minister in the new government.
According to Alkhaleej Online, Sadr his requested Abadi to withdraw from the Islamic Dawa Party to enter into an alliance and allow him to retain his prime minister’s post.
The long-awaited alliance deal between Abadi’s Victory Alliance, which came third in a May parliamentary election, and Sadr’s Sairoon list, which won the largest number of seats, is expected to help in forming the new government after weeks of political tensions as a result of vote-ragging.
Let's move over to the topic of burn pits:
Amie Muller of Woodbury died of cancer at 36. She served in Iraq & was around toxic burn pits. I’ve worked with her husband Brian who's fighting to save others. Yesterday my bill to help treat these health issues passed the Senate. Time to get it thru the House & signed into law.
And let's pair that with the latest from Burn Pits 360:
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among many others. While in the military, he worked to recover Desert
Storm era military equipment in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, including
depleted uranium munitions and debris. He also worked on environmental
guidance and practice management for US bases.
Supervisor.
He had four combat deployments to Afghanistan and two overseas
deployments to Jordan and Chad. After his military service, SFC Dardia
created the Special Operations Forces Health Initiatives Program (SHIP)
for the Task Force Dagger Foundation in 2012.
The following community sites -- plus Jody Watley and PACIFICA EVENING NEWS -- updated:
