Recent Content by marzak

Sometimes if you pair your potato with high fibre food and have a smaller potato it will be OK. Nothing is absolute. However I am T2 so may not apply to T1.

I think my consultant was to use me as an example! However alongside the weight loss which was 7kg from 67kg and extremely fast I took up running, swimming, gym and cycling. I have not eaten a cake or a biscuit or a dessert in 3 years as I am accepting that all sugary and white carbs that I...

I'm not sure any doctor I know would say diabetes is disease of the heart. It may be a disease of the pancreas but most commonly (type 2) is a disease of insulin resistance related to genetics but mainly lifestyle such as poor diet and too little exercise (too much sugar and starchy food). So...

Someone always profits from health scares! They can use their lab space/time better for swab testing! Would it change your behaviour? My opinion is that you assume you are bit more vulnerable so behave in a way that reduces your risk of contracting disease. If you need to improve your lung...

My GP has been great but I haven't bothered them for April Hba1c that was due. If you put all the statistics together: BMI, level of fitness and hard aerobic exercise and blood glucose maintained at 'normal' population levels I imagine some of "us" are in better shape to overcome virus than...

This morning announced on radio 4 that v significant % deaths have had diabetes. Not specified whether type 1 or 2 or whether linked with medication types, body type (obese or overweight) levels of fitness. Interested to know more any links please??

You could make your own ketchup without sugar I bet there's a recipe online. I've started making my own pickled stuff without sugar and I love it!!

Breakfast: 2 eggs fried in olive oil on 2 slices ciabatta (about 60g carb based on packet info.) Coffee with milk. Also had some home made pickled cabbage (unsweetened) with it. Lunch: cheese salad (peppers, carrot, celery, tomato, cucumber, home made wild garlic paste and vinaigrette) Corner of...

I think many staff are exposed to each other daily at work using same doors, tills, toilets, towels.... so not the same as 'all and sundry' ie: us, the mix of strangers with our unknown range of contacts keeping a safe social distance from them. It's not a case of pots and kettles it's using...

I agree. I also have no mask and have no experience of measuring my face for a good fit or fitting one. I have a buff I use for running in cold weather which will be as far as I go. Silk lining gloves and stretch buff and wash them when I get home! I were glasses which I could not wear under...

You might develop some resistance to hay-fever by eating the oil isn't that how locally produced honey works (not that we diabetics can eat it )

Rapeseed oil is lowest bad cholesterol available and grown in UK. Palm oil is bad. Olive oil is good too. Have you a dietary issue with rapeseed? I'm sure if you check Holland and Barrett website or Waitrose you may find an alternative mayonnaise.

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That's probably OK as long as it was wholemeal and not enormous!! My goodness think of the treats we used to have before diagnosis (perhaps I speak for myself but I imagine we all got more and more carb heavy as the condition developed?) B. Nutty Muesli with a wheat bisk extra seeds blueberries...

Do men actually pass on covid 19 from wee on their hands? I thought it was coughs and sneezes spread diseases mostly!