My father is a new Insulin Dependent Diabetic. For christmas I wanted to get him a Diabetes cookbook.?

My parents got me a diet book for christmas?" I don't get why your parents got you a book about diet for Christmas. Your weight is is fine, where it's at now, maybe a bit light, but you're still a teenager.

Now I'm likely somewhat older than your parents are at fifty eight, but you can turn that book against them in an unexpected way. Read the book then do your own research, and learn about nutrition, and all of the various elements of a good diet. Start with learning about the macronutrients, and then dig into the micronutrients.

Then start learning about food, and what each different type has nutritionally, or is lacking nutritionally. Learn about also a very importance with omega fatty acids, and how they need to be balanced, and what the proper range is. Also learn if some foods are better eaten cooked ore raw, and why.

Use a simple search to find out what something has, and doesn't have. Also modify that . Search from raw to cooked various ways Here are a few key words besides raw, boiled, steamed, baked, deep fried, pan fried.

To set up a simple search, as an example I'll use broccoli, with results from two different ways. Broccoli raw nutritional value http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vege... broccoli cooked nutritional value http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vege... Now with the two results, at the top under where they are listed, use the drop down, and select for both one hundred grams. Then look at all of the various tables.

You will see some distinct differences between them. Cooked maybe lower in some aspects, but there's a hidden aspect also besides the difference in the proteins. Broccoli while healthy raw, is actually better for you than raw, as when it's drained of the liquid, it will remove oxalates, that can prevent the absorption if the iron in it.

Broccoli though isn't the only vegetable that has oxalates, that can prevent absorption of the iron. Also some have oxalates that can prevent absorbing the protein content in them. So if your parents bought a diet book for you for Christmas, use it to your advantage, but also analyze it, and find out where any flaws are at in it.

Now don't expect to learn what I've learned in a few weeks. I've been at it for thirty nine years now. Expect it to take months and even years, as new things will be learned and added to what exists.

You have the ideal weight for your height so I don't really get it why they got you a diet book.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.