Good Readings!

I got my lab results yesterday,
and my readings had returned to well within normal.
Toy, Triumphant:
"I have done it!"

bink sent me this ^

And the lab sent me this:

Not-eating processed sugar works, especially if you go from eating sugar all day, every day––like I did.
I still eat lots of carbs like bananas, bread, and even an occasional beer, but compared to candy for lunch and ice-cream for dinner. . .
I don't know why I wasn't already pre-diabetic. (You can see I was heading that way).

What a relief! It'd been in the back of my mind for a year:
Will changing what I eat reverse my abnormal readings [not primarily glucose, but I was personally worried about that]?

I've said before--the turning point for me was watching the documentary Fed Up (2012, Katie Couric, free with ads on youtube). I got so angry, especially on behalf of the children (I used to be one), and that fired me up and gave me the motivation, the fuel, to make changes.

The sugar companies lobby hard (hard! more than I knew) against restrictions, and they knowingly target children with sugar in attractive packaging w/ cute characters, low prices, available everywhere. 

They create suffering. 

Worked for me. In high school, I would watch Star Trek after school and eat bowl after bowl of cuddly Sugar Bear brand cereal, basically sugar-coated air. I was overweight and miserable about it. Learned to fear food, not love and respect it.

It's EASY to addict people, right? But food habits don't have to be this way. Japan proves that.
According to UNICEF,

"There is only one country where fewer than one in five children are overweight: Japan. ...And overweightness overall in Japan is a mere 4.2% compared to 40% in the United States."

That's not accidental. Japanese children are taught good nutrition and habits in school, and their school lunches are healthy.

I am not keen to adopt Japanese pressures to conform--like workplaces that monitor people's weight--but American eating habits are not freely chosen either.
We, our biological programming to prefer sugar, salt, & fat, are manipulated by industries that make billions of dollars off our supposed "freedom to choose".
(Remember, that was a Pepsi campaign slogan, and an ad for gas station food at Seven-Eleven.)

I choose not to give them my money.

Burn it down! says Elmo.