What a friend said

I've started telling some of my friends about my diabetes. Oddly I've started with my virtual Facebook friends first. Safety in the anonymity of Facebook perhaps.

Unexpectedly, many of them are diabetic too, and they offered lots of support and advise based on their own experiences.

Perhaps the most interesting was from a Facebook friend in Singapore, who sent me an article on the use of Okra to manage blood glucose levels.
I love Okra, though it's been years since I've had them, and I've never cooked them myself.

Researching this a bit further (what would I do without the Internet?!) there seems to be a lot of informal and anecdotal evidence that Okra _does_ help with management of blood sugar levels. Probably due to the mucilagenous nature of it preferentially binding or absorbing simple carbs so they can't be absorbed by the gut. Though it may be a more complex physiological effect at play. Either way, the article suggests soaking split or diced Okra overnight in a glass of water, then drinking the slightly gloopy infusion in the morning as one way of getting a daily dose.

So, that's going to be added to my morning breakfast. Maybe with a squeeze of fresh lemon to make the gloopiness more palatable.