Fudge Recipe - Simple, Easy, Sugar Free, Tasty!

I really like this recipe for a lot of reasons, Dr Spurlock.  People with chronic illnesses and other medical impairments are often looking for EASY recipes, and the old OT in me looks for 'compensatory strategies' like simplifed recipes.  And then naturally, pun intended, the ingredients!

I, like MANY people, tend to run sometimes close to or into the chronic illness realm related to high blood sugar. As many who read here likely know if they're been studying about chronic illnesses, blood sugar going LOW as well as high can be a leading indicator of other health issues developing in the future if not correcting the underlying reasons, as 'functional medicine' does, which we follow at Lumigrate.  

I was in my early teens when my father was diagnosed with blood sugar going very high and then dropping to be low and into the 'hypoglycemic range'.  So then I was tested and right at three hours the data was dropping but was at 60 and that was the line for hypoglycemia and since we basically were using the HMO portion of the insurance at that time, I was not tested further and told I was normal.  

But the symptoms continued, so they took me out of network to a regular primary care doctor not one at the HMO at my Dad's work, and he ordered a 5 hour test, which then disclosed that it indeed dropped below 60, by hour #5 it had steadied out at 37.  (There is more detail at Lumigrate about how my health symtpoms went from on thing to another, ending up tipping from wellness to illness overall, then I got back out of the rut and started Lumigrate.com to share the information so others might get back toward chronic wellness OR stay there if they're lucky to not have tipped the teeter totter to 'ill' yet.) 

So the only time my mother and I made cookies was one batch before Christmas, but this would have been a better choice/option than the pecan and powdered sugary/floury delights. Then we learned how to make baklava and did that for many years, which is a lot of butter, thin filo dough, and nuts plus the sweetener.  I eventually learned about glycemid index and then further delved into glycemic load, which factors in the fiber in foods related to the absorption rate.  

Nuts have so many wonderful things for your health (providing you're not allergic, naturally), as do things from trees like dates, and plants like cocoa. I recently bought some cocoa powder and noticed that there are some that have other things added to them, so the *hint about quality is a nice added touch as well! 

Thank you again, this is a wonderful one for Lumigrate to have for our guests/followers and other experts who collaborate here to share as well! ~~ Mardy