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If she has Type 1, which is likely given her age and weight, then she will need insulin urgently. Type 1 cannot be controlled with diet and pills alone.

Yes these can be used without a device... this was common practise in hospitals before the spring loaded devices came along. Hold the bottom shaft, twist the round top off and you have a clean sharp point. Be sure to dispose of it safely afterwards though, as it will still be sharp. Tell me to...

From the USA but I think it still applies... 6-oP34xXFWM

I'll reach for a teaspoon of peanut butter (just crushed nuts with nothing added) eaten straight off the spoon, or a piece of 85% Lindt chocolate... allowed to melt slowly in my mouth :D

For those on low carb forums who are concerned about this study, I have suggested the same reasonable approach: LCHF is not tied at the hip to red meat (it can be done as a vegan, although vegetarian is easier) and for myself I already include around two days per week where I eat wild...

Incidentally, as I see that Phoenix's link to the Full Study is no longer working :( here is the Abstract http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/archinternmed.2011.2287 where I note that Frank Hu MD, PhD is only one of several authors, with An Pan PhD being listed first. AND... while...

I'm not sure I understand your meaning Sid??? Frank Hu has not been doing this study for 28 years.. no-one has been sat over anyone's shoulder recording what they ate. It was general FFQ data collected (every 4 years) over 22 and 28 years from health Professionals in the USA that has been...

The difference comes in that this recent study used data collected from four yearly food frequency questionnaires(FFQs)* where the two studies included were not designed to test the hypothesis "red meat increases health risks" -- in effect making this a retrospective cohort study... on the other...

Well that is disappointing :( they look half-decent in the photo... but then I've never actually seen a Big Mac that looks like they do in the adverts either :D

At Dr Andreas Eenfeldt's The Diet Doctor site he has a recipe for something called "Oopsies" which he says can substitute for bread. I haven't tried them myself (never felt the lack of bread) so I can't vouch for them but they look interesting nonetheless ...scroll down a bit from this link...

I was thinking along the lines of the islet cells where insulin in secreted -- or not, as the case may be... and so perhaps an Archipelago of Diabetics?

I have mixed feelings regrading the use of taxes to coerce behaviour -- especially when the science is still undecided as to what constitutes an healthy diet. But in the USA (at least) there does seem to be some need to redress an imbalance; where massive subsidies are paid to farmers to grow...

LOL Grazer :D As the saying goes "it's not the size but what you do with it"... although in that case they may be referring to another organ which (speaking as a man myself) is often considered the root of male thinking anyway :wink:

I am able to source bacon and sausages from the local farmer's market... no preservatives or nitrates. They offer single or double-smoked bacon and my preference is for the single. As mentioned above: if we avoided everything that they told us was bad for us, we would have nothing left to eat...

In this "Letter to the Editor" of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Dr Eric C Westman also discusses the rationale for the current guidelines, as he poses the question Is dietary carbohydrate essential for human nutrition? http://www.ajcn.org/content/75/5/951.2.full Please note that...