Ingredients
1 1/4 cup water
1/3 cup shortening
2 cup raisins or currants
2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
2 cup flour
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 tablespoon. artificial sweetener
Instructions
Combine water, shortening, raisins, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Boil for three minutes. Cool. Add eggs, 1 at a time, and beat in salt and soda. Add sweetener, flour, and baking powder. Add flour slow until mixture is simple to spoon.
Blend all elements together and drop from teaspoon onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for eight to ten minutes. Makes four dozen.
Diabetes can cause mayhem with your eyes, and occasionally there are no early symptoms. So you might have no idea anything is amiss until your eyesight is at risk.
Here are the primary eye issues that might be made, or caused by diabetes.
Cataracts
These are frequently described as a clouding up of the lens of the eye. They are treatable by surgical procedure in a lot of cases.
Glaucoma
Our eyes are for the most part made up of fluid, and once the pressure of that fluid builds up too much inside the eye, you have glaucoma. Left untreated, it might harm the optic nerves, and even lresult in blindness.
Diabetic retinopathy
Lining the rear of our eyes is photosensitive tissue called the retina. The retina holds really small blood vessels that might be damaged by diabetic retinopathy. Some of the times there are symptoms such as blurred vision, but frequently you will not even know anything is incorrect until the condition is considerably advanced. In the worse case, it leads to blindness.
Early detection is the important to combating all of these conditions, and the ideal diagnostic tool forthcoming is the dilated eye exam. This is a test in which special eye-drops temporarily enlarge your pupils, permitting the physician to see the back of your eyes. This examination (which is pain-free) can discover cataracts, glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy in their early, treatable levels.
Eyesight is valuable, so if you have diabetes do yourself a favour and make an date for your dilated eye exam. Then do it again yearly from today on.
