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The Yes! To Cookies Story If Love could be listed as an ingredient, it would be the very first one found on the Yes! To Cookies box. Yes! To Cookies is a healthy and delicious recipe created through one mans love for a woman. Not just a woman, but one with severe insulin-dependent diabetes. Confronted by this unforgiving disease and heart-broken by her constant battles with the exhausting ups and downs of brittle diabetes, he knew he had to do something. She had tried every recommended diet and every artificial sweetener on the supermarket shelf without success. Yet he believed there was something that could nutritionally work to her betterment; something to combat the rapid sugar spikes and plunges she endured on a daily basis and give her the wiggle-room in her diet that she craved. The low-calorie, artificially sweetened products available had never quite tasted right to either of them, worse yet they were contributing to her unpredictable blood sugar swings. He decided he could do better. He knew that he could not use starch and sugar. Foods with these ingredients always caused his sweetheart to have unpredictable high blood sugars followed by scary low blood sugar crashes. He had never heard of baking without starch but he knew that he had to try, and he had an idea! What if he left out the starch and used fiber instead? His first attempts at baking were less than perfect, but she gamely taste-tested each batch. Much to her delight and his amazement, there was NO blood sugar rise. Despite the early failures with flavor and consistency, she already loved them and he could not give up his dream. Convinced he was on the right track, he tinkered with the recipe every spare moment, seeking just the right flavoring and perfect mouth-feel for his baked goodies. He wanted an all-natural, delicious, hot-from-the-oven treat with ZERO blood sugar raising, absorbable carbohydrates. A tall order but, perhaps not unlike the story of Lorenzo-s Oil, love would find a way. With the advice of their physicians they had shifted their diets away from starchy, lower-nutrition foods while continuing to perfect the promising Yes! To Cookies recipe. As the baking trials progressed over weeks, then months, she found that she had lost several unhealthy pounds. A year passed, then two. Remarkably, they had gradually lost 100 pounds each! Meanwhile his cookie recipe just got better and better. Whenever their sweet tooth called, and they didn’t want to eat starch and sugar, they knew the answer was simply Yes! To Cookies. Though expecting little benefit for himself, the fledgling baker had surprisingly lost a bunch of weight as well. He felt great, too! They were very excited now for despite regular exercise and a -healthy- diet, they had struggled daily with their weight and his blood pressure. They had resigned themselves to a lifetime of yo-yo dieting, unpleasant side effects of their medications and gradually declining health. Then, his blood pressure began to stabilize! Her blood sugars slowly became better controlled! By taking the starch and sugar out of their menu, they had found new health! And by taking starch and sugar out of his cookies, he had created a brand new kind of welcome and tasty treat! He did not know it could not be done, so he just did it. He created Yes! To Cookies, the first yummy cookies made from fiber and natural no calorie sweeteners, instead of starch and sugar! The love-struck baker was soon able to discontinue his blood pressure medication under the direction of his MD, and the object of his desire soon had the object of her desire: delicious COOKIES!! Not the unsatisfying "diabetic cookies" with funny aftertaste that raised her blood sugar, but the kind that made her mouth water, allowed safe weight loss and increased her energy. With the guidance of her doctor she soon reduced her need for insulin. Though not a cure, it seemed nothing short of a miracle to her. And his Yes! To Cookies recipe helped them do it all. Friends were soon clamoring for samples and everyone encouraged them to share their cookies with others. Amazingly, those with diabetes, gluten-intolerance and obesity can eat Yes! To Cookies without provoking a rise in blood sugar or creeping weight gain. Now you too can bake this same heavenly, healthful treat. Enjoy this wonderful snack made from fiber and all natural, gluten-free, calorie-free ingredients... Created with love for someone you love. Enjoy the good life…a life including YES! TO COOKIES!! |
