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    Type 2 How do you thicken stews please?

    Could a handful of red lentils be used? I haven't tried it yet because I don't know if lentils are low carb enough.
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    Help please! Diabetes and cortisone steroid

    It's a while ago now but I think it was 40mg in a single dose each day for a week.
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    Help please! Diabetes and cortisone steroid

    I'm asthmatic and had to take a week long course of oral steroids. I was warned by the doctor that they would mess up my blood sugar levels and they did. It all settled down again within a few days of stopping taking them.
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    Problem with friend over my diabetes

    I think that everyone's getting wound up about this. I'm type 2 and decided, when newly diagnosed, to try to control my diabetes purely with diet. However, I was also a chocoholic and that meant not going near it, not getting even the smell of it until I had got used to not eating or even...
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    trying to reduce body fat %

    Try varying your exercise. I was told that the body gets used to what you do regularly so you need to change something in your exercise routine to 'wake it up' & get it going again.