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    Is this too many carbs?

    This is what worked for my husband (fussy eater). Breakfast: choice of bacon, egg, sausage with mushrooms, tomatoes, small amount of sugar/salt reduced baked beans or Greek yogurt based breakfast (100g) with berries and 10-15g no sugar granola or vegetable omelette. Lunch: choice of apple, pear...
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    Type 1 Work issue

    Could you speak to the person who complained and explain the situation? Maybe they are just ignorant about the necessity of having to inject?
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    How do you cope with carbs after remission?

    I’m genuinely puzzled how people cut out carbs completely? Even a carrot has carbs! Do they just eat protein and fat? Surely unhealthy and unsustainable and BORING. My husband was diagnosed with type 2 over twenty years ago but has brought down his blood sugars by eating a low carb diet (under...
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    Eat well for less

    Watched this last night. Was hoping for some advice and low carbohydrate recipes. Fat chance! If they really eat like that, how come they’re not very ill or worse? It was like they deliberately shunned anything healthy- they walked past the fruit and veg section in the supermarket. I don’t...
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    Not happy sugar is being promoted in our junior school in a morbibly obese area.

    My grandson’s school does have a little girl with type 1 diabetes but nothing has changed because of this. My grandson, aged 6, is tall for his age and overweight, due, I feel to school meals as my daughter is conscious of what he eats at home and ensures he gets lots of regular exercise such...
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    Self control in hospital

    You can complain to PALS but this is long winded. Have you asked to speak to the consultant? Husband is type 2 diabetic. He was hospitalised last year for bursitis. I also had gallbladder surgery around the same time in another hospital within the same trust. What bothers me is the food that is...
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    Newly Diagnosed

    I know of someone who carries a tin of salmon in his glove compartment for emergencies!!