That is an excellent article, and I have been giving my husband a high carb/ calorie diet since he was diagnosed. He has gained back the 30 lbs. he initially lost, and another 20 pounds for good measure. Yes carbs can mean snickers, but I am trying to give him healthy carbs which mean whole grains (no instant porridge) fruits and vegetables. The least amount of processing the better, so I am trying to make my own soups and breads. OK, I will admit that I was not a domestic goddess by any stretch of the imagination. My house was always clean, but I did not enjoy cooking. Once when my sons spent the day at my sisters place, they came back and one asked excitedly "do you know where aunt Nickie gets her cookies from?" I guessed the local bakery, I got mine at Safeway. He said "no,,,,, she got them out of her oven!"
So I made cookies, because I felt like I had been neglecting them. I worked full time, and looked after the house, and a good chunk of the gardens, so my husband often cooked meals.
Well now that I am home full time, I figure that I will make this my job, and being the over achiever that I am, that means, baking bread and making homemade soups, and good unprocessed meals.
OK make that making multigrain bricks, and a huge mess when I make the soups. I swear that I have an electrical magnetic field in my body that kills yeast on contact. My mother and sisters look at me with such pity in their eyes at my lack of baking ability. But I will not give up! I actually managed a fairly decent multigrain bread that had sesame seed, sunflower seeds, whole rolled oats, and pumpkin seeds in it. It did raise above the pan 1 " and after you dipped it in the borscht that took me 3 ½ hours to make you could even chew it.
