Recent Content by AdamJames

I hardly ever use any oils or fats for frying these days. Most foods that I fry seem to sort themselves out after a minute or two. Bacon and other meats obviously have their own fat which soon coats the pan once they are heated. Other things like even just mushrooms on their own also produce a...

Hey @Mel dCP ... the package has arrived! No, I don't mean our secret drug deal, I mean... Exciting! I really love the packaging, very quirky. I had to try the pemmican first as it's something that's fascinated me for years. I expected to hurl - the idea of animal fat stored for a long time...

Haha! Now you mention it, it was a really unique smell. Nothing else quite like it. From what I remember there was the occasional whiff of hotdogs and a vinegary smell from the skates that they handed out that had been worn by a thousand other people, but most of all the whole place smelled of...

I remember our physics teacher used to take us ice skating on school outing days, but I couldn't remember the name of the place. I just checked and yes! It was Silver Blades apparently. The one in Kensington. I remember it well (apart from the name!). I used to love those outings.

You were just down the road from me. My school bus (remember the 68?) went along Green Lane so I passed there most days of the week. Oh, the memories. Kwik Save on the corner of Green Lane, Lister Drive swimming pool, Newsham Park, jumpers for goalposts... I also headed east at about 20, to...

You can add me to the born and bred in Scouser Land list. I'm not sure I'm brave enough to start a "Scousers R Us" thread though :)

Yes I think we'd have had a fight on our hands over the pizza! I know the word gluttony has a very simple meaning these days, but there seems to be blurred line, where people seem to think that eating enough to gain weight is gluttony, and that gluttony is morally wrong (because gluttony was a...

I think I share your general sentiments there in terms of the dietary approach. There's certainly a lot of positives as well as negatives to this sort of approach and some people may even prefer it. The programme could have presented exactly the same process and result in a far more humane way...

I thought it was a bit un-cool to have the skinny Anita Rani presenting a program like this and telling fat diabetic people what to do. I think they missed a trick. Rosemary Shrager shouldn't have been one of the celebrity participants, she should have presented the show. She's a lot more fun...

Are you still with us @Guzzler? Do you need help? Should we call an ambulance? In the first section before the advertisements last night, the 'experts' said 1) Exercise is crucial for tackling diabetes, and 2) Calories are everything. I had visions of your head exploding. Are you okay? :)

What's the normal punishment for trying to smuggle Class A diabetics into the Netherlands? And if @heh got caught out, would we be confiscated and stored in an evidence room for the rest of our lives? I'd like to know the risks and hazards before I commit :)

Exactly. The program didn't address this at all. I tire of these recent programs where they can't even be bothered to do an OGTT on the participants before and after. Seems a pretty basic thing to me. It's so stunning that these 'groundbreaking investigations' don't 'go there' that I'm beginning...

Sounds more like Excramante to me.

In addition to the change in dietary advice I'd say there is also the need to tackle the big food companies. I know we often mention how cynical they are, but it wasn't until I read a big article I posted here recently that I began to realise how positively evil some of their practices are...

I thought it might go that way as well. Will this do for a quick fix?