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Eek! My legs went all goosy when you said that about the table saw! I regularly uses machinery with big pointy things attached and have over the years had a few near misses myself. Only takes a split second.....

Thankfully, also the blade was fully retracted.
It was slamming my side into the space between the
rails for the rip fence, and the table top, then twisting.... :/
Ouch, and eek indeed.

Been looking further into Amla and it's turning out to be something of a hidden gem for health in general and with diabetes in particular. I find it a little bitter so I need some tasty ways to get it into me, but definitely going to stick with it as most of what I am reading is positive and I am sure I can notice a difference in myself already. Still early days of course, but at worse there doesn't seem to be a down side. It has nutritional benefits, and it's hardly expensive. So a bit of a no-brainer?

Hmmm, must have feed of east Indian food sometime.

Wish I knew more about the chemistry involved (where are you Lotus? ;-) but there does seem to be an underlying link between hormones and diabetes and obesity.

Unfortunately with diabetes it seems the established wisdom is to point the finger and say you are too fat and then poke the pancreas with chemicals to modify insulin production. Rather than asking the question of why the pancreas stopped working properly in the first place?

Similar logic with the weight gain. "Fight the fat" they shout! Rather than deal with the actual reason the body's natural weight regulating systems went wrong? We all know of people who can eat ridiculous amount of food and not put on an ounce (gurrr!).

Yes, there has to be an underlying reason....

Other than inactivity - although I have been a slug
when it comes to activity for a number of years.

My mother couldn't loose weight to save her life, other than
at the end when she got really sick (cancer. )

Could be as simple as a hormone imbalance or a need
to cut just one thing from the diet....
Interesting thought.