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    Cant find a cereal that doesn't shoot my blood sugar right up!

    Have you tried oat bran? Also, protein works well for me.
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    Low Carb Snacks In France

    I wouldn't feel too guilty about the quiche from a Glycemic Load point of view. The pastry in the quiche is the main source of carb and quiche pastry is usually about half fat. That should significantly slow the carb absorption. Test an hour or 2 after eating and I'll bet your bloods aren't too...
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    Refused Flu Tablets at the Chemist

    If your BP is completely controlled by BP meds, then phenylephrine seems unlikely to raise your BP anymore than it does for anyone else with normal BP. If your BP is not being controlled by your meds, you should consider getting different (or more) meds.
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    cholesterol (ezetrol) drug?

    Ezetrol is a great way to lower your cholesterol with minimal side effects. I couldn't hit my target lipids levels with Atorvastatin alone; adding Ezetrol did the trick.
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    no added sugar Thornton chocolates

    It's time we put a stop to Diabetes UK. They are killing us with their mis-information. Their motives may be pure but they have devolved into an extension of the NHS bureaucracy that has been letting us down for over a decade. We need to stand up and be counted. Responsible researchers no...
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    Which Bread?

    >I take it you're new in these parts. Clearly! LOL. 260g is way more than I could handle without a drip-feed of insulin! ;-) I manage bread in 2 ways. Firstly, those brick-like German breads, such as pumpernickel, are 100% whole-grain with minimal milling of the grain. This seems to...
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    Type 2 What might I eat gluttonously that won't cause a blood glucose spike?

    The good news is that nearly all the carbs in cocoa are fibre, and so don't count. Fruit sugar, aka fructose, can be used to sweeten cocoa without spikes. But the anti-fructose people will guilt you into an early grave.
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    Tesco - poor response to a valid query

    Yes, Tesco's reply is appalling. But on a practical front, here is how I view their sandwiches: 1) if it has loads of meat and/or mayo, then throw away one piece of bread, fold the rest in half, and pretend it is a thick American-style sandwich. ! slice of bread with a lot of balancing fat and...
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    MILK and Diabetes

    A couple of things: not all sugars are the same. The main villain is glucose. Regular sugar (sucrose) contains a lot of readily available glucose so should be restricted. But some sugars like fructose (fruit sugar, agave syrup) are much slower to convert to glucose so they can be eaten without...
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    Victoza

    Victoza has been successfully keeping my BG in line for a couple of years now. And since it doesn't cause hypos, it can be used while on a low-carb diet. Unfortunately getting the NHS to prescribe it is hard unless you are seriously overweight. This is ironic since those who eat way too much...
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    Is there ANY bread that I can eat ?

    Me too - loads of oat bran and steel cut oats, along with nuts and seeds. In the end it is about 40% wholemeal wheat only. Irish soda bread is an easy way to make this kind of bread. Also try the German "brick" breads made from whole rye and whole oat kernals. They are very low GL, so the BG...
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    Liraglutide/Victoza

    It's ironic that you refer to gliclazide as the drug of choice "today" since it is a 50 year old drug with the extreme side effect of causing hypos. It's dirt cheap. Hence it is the NHS drug of choice. The fact that it is very very dangerous is offset by its low cost. NICE is not nice. Victoza...
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    Fruit:- Good or not so good.

    Fructose metabolises differently from sucrose and so is a good way for diabetics to get sweetness without spiking. There is a significant non-scientific lunatic fringe opposed to fructose. But it is just one of the many natural sugars we eat. Virtually all fruit contains fructose. If it were as...
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    Porridge

    Just to be clear - while porridge is low-med GI, it is still a lot of carbs. So the best way to serve it is with the least amount of porridge! Cut your oat portion in half, add nuts, and seeds to make up for the lost oats. The increased proportion of fats and protein, plus the reduction in carb...
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    soba noodles

    Bean thread noodles, aka glass or cellophane noodles, are meant to be low GI (26-39). I would be curious if there any anecdotal BG tests on bean thread noodles. They can be served soaked, then stir fried for a really nice noodle dish. They work in any recipe where rice noodles would work.
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    Peanut butter carb mystery...help!?

    Nuts are free carbs - low glycemic load. Not corn. But chick peas are good. You can make a delicious paste with chickpeas called hummus. Just put drained into the blender with garlic, lemon, tahini, olive oil and salt. Optional chill. Blend smooth. Now I say they are free carbs but they are...
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    PRAWN CRACKERS

    It's not just the carb number but the glycemic load that matters. Prawn crackers are very very fatty. Anyone know the GL? I'm betting that like crisps, their main peril is not high blood sugar but high calories.
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    How I knocked 0.7% off my HbA1c by doing almost nothing

    Great job, and though your story is anecdotal, there are so many similar anecdotes these days it is infuriating and indefensible that the NHS still pushes a high carb diet down our throats. I tried to have a serious discussion about diet with an NHS diabetes consultant and it was simply...
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    Diabetes Type 2 is a lifestyle choice

    Sorry but BigBenn's post is riddled with ignorant, possibly delusional, and perhaps dangerous advice. it needs a very big health warning from the moderator and shouldn't have been featured on the forum newsletter as a serious discussion thread. We get enough wacky diet advice from the NHS.
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    Metformin. Its worse than the diabetes

    Metformin is not the only drug for controlling diabetes! Find a doctor who is interested in helping. It took me a year to get used to Metformin but now I am side-effect free. But my side-effects were not as nasty as yours. Many of the drugs that control blood sugar do so by slowing down...