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I just eat masses of clotted cream on its own !

Three books to read 1. "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes; this debunks most of the rubbish spoken about diets and diabetes/obesity etc etc over the last two hundred years (which has been mostly funded by chemical/food companies); judge for yourself its value and whether Taubes is...

My experience as a type one for 25 years has been that the only group who actually really know what they are doing in the NHS (regarding diabetes in general) is the DAFNE (Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating) group. Not all counties have one and I had to shift to the neighbouring county to get...

Hi Artemis; cant work out how to reply to your pm it won't let me .. shall I give you my normal email on here?

if you are type one, you need to test at least 7-8 times a day. I would complain to your area medical authority or go to your MP's surgery.

Hiya; I've been type one for over 20 years since my late 40's; recently discovered the work of Dr Richard Bernstein re low carb diets and Dr's Gabriel Cousins and Neil Barnard on alkaline diets. You won't get much support for their ideas from the NHS mainline thinkers, but an alkaline diet...

Almost nil carbohydrate, that should say above... sorry!

Hi Guys As a type one for almost 20 years; historically my hba1c has crept up from 6.2 in 1993 to 8.3 2012 now, whilst following NHS standard dietetics advice on carbs and I am now rapidly getting more foot and hand motor neuropathy (distorted toes and finger joints, and numbness). My NHS Doctor...