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I've just read the diet advice on D>UK's website. At one point it says that in the past, diabetes patients were advised to reduce their carb intake, but that this was shown to have adverse health effects. I am quite unaware of any studies which support this assertion. Is this yet another...

`I find that it's almost painless if you 'stab' the lancing device quickly and firmly against the skin, and then trigger the pricker. The impact of the plastic circle on the end of the lancing device, if you do it hard enough, seems to blot out the prick of the needle. I always set it at the...

The standard advice on T2 diabetic diet put out by the NHS and D.UK is to eat several portions of starchy food with meals (according to one recent handout, up to 14 portions a day). But many people who test their blood glucose regularly after meals know that the higher the starch content of...

Dear Ladybird I recently got strips at a Lloyds Pharmacy for the same price that the NHS pays (£14 for 50 instead of £26) by telling them that I was a registered diabetic. I have also had a meter and strips for free from Bayer's Contour, by responding to one of their regular adverts...

Hi Fallenstar I've been using ground almonds as a basis for a low-carb breakfast cereal for several years now. It's just a dry mix of ground almonds, soy bran, chopped nuts and wheat germ, wetted with milk and a dash of cream. The taste is great, the texture so-so until you get used to it...

Re: is diabetes reversable Addendum; I should have said that I do the post-prandial test at one hour, not two hours, because that's when it normally peaks. the two hour test, when I occasionally took it, was usually 6% or below.

Re: is diabetes reversable I'd never have believed it ,but in my recent experience it does appear to be reversible. I was diagnosed Type II 7 years ago, and have controlled it by fairly low-carb diet ever since. Four months ago I began to control post-prandial glucose levels, because it is...

Hi triflegir Breakfasts are difficult I know! Try these pancakes; In a bowl, beat together 1dessert sp. soy flour; 1 dsp. ground almonds; 1 dsp. Canadian toasted bran (from Holland and Barratt); pinch of salt; sweetener to taste; half tsp. olive oil; 1 egg; enough soy milk to produce a...

The history is covered (at exhausting length) in Gary Taubes' 'Diet Delusion'. The US Surgeon General came under congressional pressure to give dietary advice to the public, because of heart disease/ obesity concerns. Just our luck that Keys' anti-fat campaign caught the politicians' ears...

I see from other posts that Tufts have replied - where can we get to read it?

me too - trying for less than 40g p.d. which keeps me 'flatlining' more or less. Your question is a good one. almost everone who tests BG intelligently ends up realising how **** the standard advice is, because it invariably produces higher BG levels. The question is, how can we do anything...

I've just found that this forum exists, and I'm so glad to see that many people have realised the essential daftness of the standard high-carb advice we are given. When first diagnosed I had no dietary predudice one way or the other, but when I started metering to get feedback on what worked...