Uh, YEAH.  Do you read labels?  Fruit juice is used to rapidly RAISE bg
in hypoglycemic attacks for that reason.  It spikes bg like crazy.  So
does milk, due to lactose content.

Great, if you're a young, active, non diabetic.  Otherwise, 86 the juice.

The morning is when blood glucose is higest and spikes the most after a
meal.  Most type 2s who test after breakfast learn to avoid all carbs
until the evening, due to bad effects on bg.

Have you tried learning to manage your DM using this invaluable piece of
advice?:

http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newly%20Diagnosed.htm

If not, get started, but only if you want to avoid amputations,
blindness and kidney failure.

Susan

Eat the fruit and avoid juice.  You will get the benefit of all the
soluble fiber in fruit and it also will help fill you.  You can consume
a lot of calories on juice with not as much of a nutritional benefit.

On the saturated fat front.  I personally restrict my intake of
saturated fat to probably less than 10% of the calories I consume a day
- my total fat consumption is probably 30-40%.  I follow principles in
the Lyon Heart study for my own diet.  My saturated fat intake comes
from whatever comes naturally in generally healthy food - say olive oil
etc. + a limited amount of food high in sat fat).  For me that meant
restricting my cheese intake (I used to eat a lot of it).  Matti Narkia
has posted extensive links to articles showing risk of cheese is not
high for CVD.  I have not really had an opportunity to read these in
depth.  For myself, I am going with conventional wisdom over contrary
opinions.

Societies that eat very little fat (say Okinawans) & societies that eat
very large amount (say traditional Cretian biased towards olive oil)
have low incidence of cardiovascular disease.  Both these societies are
physically active and do not overeat.  My gut feeling is you are
probably OK if you eat a VERY varied diet biased towards fruits and
vegetables and do not over consume anything in excess or overeat.  

How much you eat is probably as important as what you eat.  For example
if you get say 25% of your calories from sat fat but are really
restricting your calorie intake severely (eating say 20% calories less
than you theoretically require) you may be better off than getting 10%
of your calories from sat fat but overeating.  I would definitely follow
the Chung general advice of being as lean as you can be.  Practically I
think I would buy a body fat monitoring scale if you can afford it and
shoot for a body fat percentage of 12-14% and make that a goal.  If you
do not want to spend money on toys, loose weight to a point that you
truly cannot pinch loose flab ANYWHERE  around your gut and you can see
your abdominal muscles defined as a six-pack (probably around 8% body
fat if you reach that goal).

Roland

me@privacy.net wrote in part:

If you are male, that means you are about 40 lb overweight--very dangerous.
If you are female, it means you are only 10 lb overweight.
--
Jim Chinnis   Warrenton, Virginia, USA