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  1. borofergie

    Almond milk.

    Why are you sorry? Almond milk is great, the unsweetened version is almost zero carb, and is much healthier the estrogen filled soya milk.
  2. borofergie

    Yum look how "heart healthy" vegetable oils are made...

    But I do make the same point about wheat, oats, barley, maize and processed foods. There is none of that in my food chain. Don't eat process foods, don't eat grains (or anything that eats grains), don't eat mechanically and chemically recovered ****. Olive, Coconut, and Avocado oil apart, there...
  3. borofergie

    Yum look how "heart healthy" vegetable oils are made...

    If you tried hard enough, you could make olive oil, or lard, or butter, in your kitchen. Each of these is a relatively easily extracted product of a "whole food". It disturbs me greatly to see fields, and fields, of rape seed, almost all of which will go towards the production of supposedly...
  4. borofergie

    Yum look how "heart healthy" vegetable oils are made...

    I would never put any of that stuff in my mouth ever again. What an incredible con job Mr Procter and Mr Gamble played on as all, by convincing the world that agricultural waste products were healthy alternatives to lard and butter.
  5. borofergie

    August Whole 30 Paleo Challenge

    The Whole30 was great. I think I lost something like 14lbs in a month, and started the Great North Run at the lowest weight that I'd been since diagnosis (something like 70 lbs down in total). That's despite eating lots more fruit and sweet potato than I normally would. I think it works because...
  6. borofergie

    August Whole 30 Paleo Challenge

    Read the post above "average" is misleading, because the numbers are dominated by large infant mortality. Until the discovery of antibiotics, there was also a much higher chance of dying from infection. There isn't much evidence that these guys were dying from diabetes, cardiovascular disease or...
  7. borofergie

    LCHF and the NHS

    Health Care Provider = Doctors + Nurses + Specialists etc
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    LCHF and the NHS

    Instead of worrying about how Robert Atkins died, maybe you should all be worried about how Sue Townsend died: a numb fingered, blind amputee on dialysis. The choice between that and a heart attack is simple. I sometimes wonder if some of the "anti-low-carb" scaremongers who happily post this...
  9. borofergie

    LCHF and the NHS

    Tell him to Google "ad hominem". That's always what people resort to when they lose the argument.
  10. borofergie

    LCHF and the NHS

    How do you think that the current guidelines were developed? Certainly not on the back of any long term scientific data. As I said above, we know for sure from UKPDS that prescribing a high-carb diet to diabetics doesn't work. We also know that the there is no evidence that links fat...
  11. borofergie

    LCHF and the NHS

    Risk? It's true that we don't know what the long term risk of putting diabetics on a low-carbohydrate diet is. However, we do absolutely know the risk of feeding high-carbohydrate diets to diabetics. They deteriorate and suffer complications NO MATTER WHAT MEDICATION you feed them to mediate...
  12. borofergie

    New ketone breathalyzer gadget!

    Yes. I keep meaning to write a review about it. I quite like it but: 1) As you say it takes a while to boot up, which is annoying if like me you test before meals (my foot sits there getting cold waiting for the light to stop blinking). 2) It doesn't really have enough levels - yellow and red...
  13. borofergie

    Parkrun

    I think that some of them self-regulate after a while, as the numbers increase and the comfort and convenience decrease. I feel lucky that my parkrun - Oak Hill in Barnet - is one of the smaller ones. A year ago we were only getting 40, now we're breaking 100. It's nice to see "our baby"...
  14. borofergie

    Parkrun

    Me too!
  15. borofergie

    So many things going on - low calories coupled with exercise

    If you want to exhaust your glycogen supplies, then shorter bouts of intense exercise will do that much quicker (interval training, something like Sprint 8). If you are cycling for more than two hours, then you'll be somewhere well below your aerobic threshold and burning mostly fat. If...
  16. borofergie

    Droopy knows more about nutrition than NHS doctors shocker...

    And so it came to pass that a cartoon character dog offered better nutritional advice to diabetic mice than almost any Doctor (or Dietician) in the whole of the NHS:
  17. borofergie

    Parkrun

    I didn't. I got the impression that he hears the same questions everywhere he goes, so I just talked about my favorite topic as usual: ME!
  18. borofergie

    First "Official" 5K complete

    Yes. That and beating the other runners....
  19. borofergie

    Parkrun

    Not that I'm name dropping or anything, but I ran with Paul Sinton Hewitt at Oak Hill this morning!
  20. borofergie

    First "Official" 5K complete

    I've run about 90 5ks in the past 3 years - my time today was 34:00, so you beat me by 30s on your debut! Good going and keep at it. Have you heard about parkun? http://www.parkrun.org.uk/ http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/parkrun.48576/