Recent Content by Md2t

How much money do people waste on junk food that may eventually make them sick? Much information is available free on the internet if you have time to research it all and the self discipline to apply it. A single book may be cheaper than the whole low carb program but won't offer as much...

Well done for attending! I have not been allowed to got to community education sessions because the GPs think it will confuse patients to hear from a patient's success 'against the majority of the evidence'

Fortunately a growing number of NHS professionals are challenging the current guidelines and assert their right to do so based on the part of those guidelines which tell them to consider each patient's individual requirements and preferences. Look up 'Public Health Collaboration'. Sadly many...

William Banting's 'A Letter On Corpulence Addressed To The Public', published in the early 1860s after he reversed his diabetes, described a low carbohydrate diet which his doctor had advised after learning about it from a French colleague. It would seem that the French were using low carb...

Well done for getting your points across. After a bit of a search a few years ago, I finally tracked down where and when my local MP would hold his next constituency surgery (in a corner of a local hotel bar). He listened patiently and even commented that the then Chancellor, George Osbourne...

No! The 'eat less / move more' advice helped me LOSE weight quickly but I found the calorie restriction to be unstainable beyond a few months, so my weight yo-yo'd for 25 years between 22st and 15st, so the NHS did not help me to MANAGE my weight. Funnily, at first diagnosis in 1989 I followed...

I would agree, as you did, with the first responder's suggestion that your immediate post-exercise reading was caused by gluconeogenesis in the absence of insulin, but that begs the question of how soon your pancreas responded by secreting insulin. Did you do any subsequent readings before you...

Hi! I am type 2 controlled by diet (real food, low carb, intermittent fasting) and despair of getting suitable meals in hospital. Recently in for only 24 hours, I treated that as mostly a fasting day. I ate half the evening meal, leaving the high-carb items uneaten, and had just a cup of tea...

OK. I'm just an isolated anecdote for having reversed my type 2 diabetes by dietary lifestyle changes. So are the dozens more like me that I have met personally, but it's harder to dismiss the larger number of cases posted in this forum and how can the over 200,000 people completing the...

Type 1 may be different to type2 in some ways, but has been found to respond well for some people to a low carbohydrate lifestyle. One notable example is Dr Richard Bernstein, author of 'Diabetes Solution',

My own GP very wisely changed my diagnosis to 'diabetic controlled by diet' which allowed her to continue prescribing test strips for my glucose meter. That suited me because I use frequent blood glucose testing to give early warning of any rises without waiting for periodic Hba1c tests. I...

Well done! You may not need to try the Newcastle diet, seeing how well you have done with carbohydrate restriction. It was Roy Taylor's work at Newcastle that first alerted me to the possibility of reversing type two diabetes, but I didn't like the idea of his very low calorie diet. I am very...

W My own story is too long and tedious to relate here, but I'll summarise it as well as I can. There is a version I wrote earlier in the February 2015 archive of Jason Fungs blog. I was diagnosed type 2 in late 1989 when I weighed over 18 stone and blood glucose must have been quite high, but...

I think that eating too many calories of any kind will make you fat, but that low carb diets help you naturally consume fewer calories because you feel full faster if you are getting most of your energy from good fats like olive oil, butter, cheese, grass-fed beef and belly pork. I don't aim...

I try to avoid any artificial foods, so I don't use sweeteners. It may take a while to get used to tasting real food without adding either natural sugars or artificial sweeteners, but sooner or later the natural sweetness of real foods becomes apparent. I now just have to be careful not to...