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To: Rambi who wrote (43576)	12/17/1999 12:21:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

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.

To: Rambi who wrote (43576)	12/17/1999 12:59:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Hmmmm. I wonder how it would work to smash a mini Reese's cup into the center of a Pillsbury sliceable cookie.... Maybe you could smash a little lump of cream cheese in there, too.

To: Rambi who wrote (43576)	12/17/1999 1:36:00 AM
From: E	Respond to of 71178

You are a sophisticated person and cook. I once had to bring the dessert for a group picnic in which people cooked pretty fancy things. I bought many boxes of Mallomars and served them on a big platter, with one open box, so there would be no doubt what they were. They were a hit, and it was considered quite clever. No one would have bought Mallomars for themselves, to eat at home, I don't think. But they sure enjoyed them at the picnic. I also once gave a dinner party, with very good food, and for dessert, served Dove Bars. This was right after Dove Bars became available in the stores. You used to be able to find them on the street, but not in the stores. They really are SO good. Amazing what you can get away with if the group is small enough to be influenced by your... attitude, lol. For gatherings like school or church, I would take the task seriously, of course. When my son was maybe ten, I made a German Chocolate cake from scratch for a school function, and it looked simply hideous, like a mud pie, and it was so embarrassing because no one took any. Even though it was delicious. Albeit leaden. And a friend's son shouted to me from the dessert table, in a loud voice, "E! No one is eating your cake!"