haha I suddenly feel like a New-Zealander!l Alberta & Saskatchewan, we are the youngest provinces of Canada (in the old days it was called "the frontier" or "the wilderness"and we are more blue-collar. We are very country here even in the two major metropolis (Edmonton & Calgary), bunch of farmers and oil workers with big old trucks running wild in the rockies on horse-back with our funny looking hats, they call us red-necks, the a-hole of Canada, so on. We just do our thing and fling the poop right back at em. It's all fun and games until you have to share political values together, that one is a bit of a mess still.

I suppose being a diabetic doesn't make it easy to eat, everything nowadays is loaded with sugar. That's the reason as much as my allergies to soya sucks and it's in everything is almost a blessing in disguise, it forces me to eat right and by making things myself I cut a lot of sugar and chemicals out, otherwise I would just eat everything under the sun! Partly a fast metabolism but I think eating mostly natural helps a great deal, plus I drink all these natural frou-frou herbal teas like rose-hip and hibiscus or juniper berry, they are loaded with anti-oxidants and other minerals and vitamins, I think they have insulin regulating properties.