Recent Content by Saraband

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    LCHF Diet

    This is helpful for me too. Diagnosed pre-diabetic in March 13, LCHF since June 13 (30 - 50g p/day). Never felt better! Oct 13 total cholesterol 5.1 HDL 2.2 LDL 2.7 Tri .57 Fasting bg 6.0 HbA1c...
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    Advice please, for my father.

    Anti_carb, thank you for this. I have agreed with Dad that he won't start the diet until I've visited, which I'm doing tomorrow. (They live over 100 miles away from me.) He has only one type of insulin which he takes 4 times a day I think, but he admits that he's not good at knowing how much to...
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    Advice please, for my father.

    Hi anticarb, thanks for replying so promptly :D It's good to hear that you rate the diet itself. I've looked at their website and can see it makes sense. Dad certainly has weight to lose but what's attracted him is the idea that it could stabilise his blood sugars. You've hit the nail on...
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    Advice please, for my father.

    Hello everyone, This is my first post here despite lurking (and learning) for the past 6 months since being diagnosed as pre-diabetic in March. I had envisaged posting soon with my own success story: I'm hopeful that the imminent fasting tests will show a significant improvement, probably...