Your cookies sound delicious. Cream cheese in the pastry is SOOO good.
I am sort of down in the dumps, as yesterday my internist showed me that my glycolysated hemoglobin, specifically hemoglobin A1C, which I didn't even know I had, was elevated, which may mean that I have diabetes, NIDDM, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, aka type II. Which can be blamed completely on overweight, and lack of exercise. I don't have the heart to tell George Montgomery what can happen to you if you procrastinate too much. Overweight causes one to be insulin resistant, so your body doesn't metabolize blood sugar properly. Anyway, the numbers are sort of borderline, so there's no reason to despair, but I have to buckle down and start doing the right things. I've been surfing Medline, printing out articles, but I already know what to do, eat less, exercise more. Duhh.
On the bright side, I've lost 30 pounds since I quit having arthritis, and my blood pressure is normal, now. But I have to get my cholesterol down, and keep my blood sugar down. What the hemoglobin A1C measures is how much blood sugar is attached to one's red blood cells, as the blood sugar that isn't burned up kind of sticks to the blood cells and the insides of the blood vessels, and makes them stick together, and causes all kinds of problems, like atherosclerosis, and neuropathy, and so on and so forth. Or, in layman's terms, blindness, heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, gangrene, impotence. Stuff like that. All due to sitting on one's tush, eating too many cookies.
No cookies for me. Just call me Ms. Grinch. |
