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The Food staff receives calls almost weekly from readers who have recently been diagnosed with diabetes or insulin resistance. Without fail, we advise them first to talk with their physician and receive a referral to a registered dietitian specializing in diets for diabetics.

Our second suggestion is to go to the parish library and check out a cookbook focused on dishes adapted for diabetic diets. Most of the diabetes-focused cookbooks include recipes that can be easily prepared at home and tips on how to adjust older recipes to accommodate present dietary restrictions.

The Advocate’s Food section has donated several excellent cookbooks dealing with diabetes to the East Baton Rouge Parish River Center (downtown) Branch Library, and some of those books are placed in a reference section so that the books stay in the library and can’t be checked out.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- November is National Diabetes Month and Meijer is offering practical, user-friendly tools -- a daily, two- week menu planner and diabetes wellness log -- to help individuals diagnosed with diabetes better manage the disease which now affects millions of Americans. A recently published study conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates improvement in diabetes care over the past ten years; however, the study notes that there is still a great need to focus on additional improvements.

"Meijer is committed to actively being a part of improving the care and treatment of a disease that continues to affect our country at a rapidly expanding pace," said Healthy Living senior advisor Shari Steinbach. "Our goal is to provide meaningful, practical solutions related to diet and nutrition because, let's face it -- the grocery store is where most food choices are made."

The Meijer Healthy Living menu planner is designed to help diabetic consumers make healthy food choices and is based on a basic diet guide for an individualized meal plan.

KUWAIT: Several inmates serving time at Kuwait Central Prison are hoping they will receive a pardon during the Eid holidays. At least 52 inmates have written appeals to officials seeking a pardon for writing bad cheques. In 2003 the late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah issued a decree changing bad cheque writing from an offence punishable by imprisonment to a misdemeanour, reported Al-Watan. One of the appealing inmates wondered when the decree would be put into practice. "It had been issued for three years now,' he said.

Discussion on expat work

KUWAIT: The Minister of Social Affairs and Labour Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled recently presided a meeting of the permanent committee for organising the work of expatriates in the private sector. The meeting was also attended by the Undersecretary Duaij Al-Malek and representatives of the ministries of interior, of commerce and industry and Kuwait municipality.

For most pop singers, recording an album of standards is a stretch. Rod Stewart, the plaid-clad frontman of the boozy, blowzy Faces, singing Cole Porter? Unimaginable, until he did it. Carly Simon had to drop her folkie-hippie chic for the more intense film noir glamour of Moonlight Serenade.

But for Gladys Knight, whose long career includes mega-hits on Vee-Jay, Soul/Motown, Buddah and Columbia, trying her hand at classics such as Duke Ellington's Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me or Billie Holiday's Good Morning, Heartache was as effortless as slipping into a satin evening gown.

It wasn't a huge leap for Knight to cut her new album of standards, Before Me (Verve), because she's been singing the classic American songbook since she was lead vocalist with an Atlanta jazz band at the tender age of 14.