Diabetic Living Australia

‘Cooking our way to better health’ TYPE 2

When my husband Silas was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, it was a complete shock to both of us. He’d always been pretty healthy, worked as a horticulturalist so was strong and fit and, although he carried a few extra kilos, who doesn’t?

He went to the doctor when he was about 45 for something unrelated but, as it had been a while since his last medical appointment, the GP jumped at the chance to run some generalwithout alarm to ‘watch that’ and ‘maybe lose a few kilos’.

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