Recent Content by Diggler

Hi Maggie, its great news that your HbA1C is going in the right direction but, as you suspect, this may be a side effect of alcohol. HbA1C measures an average blood sugar level over about 3 months and if you are constantly lowering it with alcohol this will, I think, reduce that average. I know...

My online course wasn't DESMOND and was almost completely useless for my type 2 diabetes. I was shown graphics suggesting I should eat copious amounts of carbohydrate. At one point the medical professional running the course told the participants that we would almost all end up on insulin...

Go to your Focus settings (where your Do Not Disturb settings are) set up a new Focu and you can then tell it what apps to allow to notify you and what to keep silent.

January 2022 my HbA1C was 99, it's currently about 40 and I am currently drug-free. My doctor put me on Metformin, which didn't agree with me—I won't go into the messy details—I was able to drop it by early July. I changed my diet by cutting down almost completely on carbohydrates. So the...

I agree with pretty much everything being said above. I reduced my carbs to about 50g per day and my A1C went from 99 last January, to 53 in April to 43 in October. The Gluco Navii meter mentioned is maybe the least expensive to use. I also occasionally cough up £95 for a month's worth of...

Frozen raspberries allowed to defrost a bit, not completely, with full fat greek yoghurt or kefir or aerosol cream. I keep aerosol cream in the fridge as it keeps forever and I'm not organised enough to have fresh cream when I want it.

I tried porridge and ryvita and they both sent my blood sugar high. I have given up breakfast as it helped me lose weight (I now have a BMI of 19, down from 24) but when I was eating it it was some of the following—berries (I keep frozen berries) with full fat greek yoghurt, cheese or mushroom 2...

To quote the article "Before agriculture was introduced (circa 11–9000 years ago), human ancestors could not grow, harvest and store the majority of plant-based products as the staple food. Plant foods are mostly accessible only in particular seasons of the year. Contrariwise, animals, including...

I'm properly diabetic and when diagnosed in January set off on my quest to lower carbs but was hindered by what turns out to be out of date information. I struggled to cut carbs but eat enough calories because I was trying to avoid fats, the saturated variety in particular. Having read many...

The manual for the Libre 2 says "Some airport full-body scanners include x-ray or millimetre radio-wave, which you cannot expose your Sensor to. The effect of these scanners has not been evaluated and the exposure may damage the Sensor or cause inaccurate results."