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It depends on the cows and the season. The carbs are in the milk sugar (lactose) but the bulk of the Calories are in the fat, which tends to be slightly higher when the sugar is a bit lower.

Until you know what your heart arrhythmia is, it is impossible to find the cause of your palpitations and work out the best treatment. See your GP, who can listen to your heart, arrange any necessary tests and take it from there. You will have been checked when you were pregnant and during...

Lamb's liver is cheap and nutritious but difficult to cook well. I hated it as a child; my mum's cooking turned it into something more fit to sole one's shoes with than to eat. But since starting a LCHF diet, I have been eating it quite frequently, though I haven't yet been able to tempt my...

Just invented a new way, I believe, of serving avocado. Stone, peel and dice 1 ripe avocado. Drain one rollmop herring fillet, unroll and cut into pieces 2 x 1 cm. Keep all the onions. Mix just 2 tsp. of the vinegar (it contains quite a lot of sugar) with 1/4 tsp of French mustard. Now mix all...

It could be the spices in the curry. They are approximately 60% carbohydrate by dry weight. When I make curry for myself I use about 20 grams of spices which is about 12 grams of carbohydrate. Also watch the onion, 10% carbohydrate. I try to keep my blood glucose below 8 mmol/l after meals which...

If this abnormal thirst persists, try to measure how much urine your son is passing and keep an accurate record of both his fluid intake and urine output for a few days. One needs to see what the pattern is. Does he pee excessively first and then drink to compensate and stop himself from getting...

I thought the usual hypothesis about the cause of insulin resistance went something like the following: 1. High carbohydrate food is readily available in most parts of the world as never before. 2. If eaten in excess, this causes high blood glucose levels. More insulin is produced by the...

If you like lemonade, here's my homemade recipe. Put the juice of 1 lemon in a jug. Fresh lemons are particularly good and cheap at the moment (March 2019). Make up to 100 ml with tap water. Add a trace of pure sucralose. Use pure sucralose as it is genuinely zero Calorie, whereas Splenda is...

I'm not sure if anybody actually dies of high cholesterol. It's not a disease in itself, just an indication that something may, or may not, be wrong. Mine is slightly over "normal" but I do not worry about it; I just concentrate on getting my weight down and keeping my blood sugar within the...

Fried grated cauliflour, subtly spiced, makes a reasonable rice substitute with a curry.

Try cutting the carbs as much as you can, say to below 100 g per day gradually over the next few weeks. At the same time, increase the fat content of your diet to stop you feeling hungry, losing weight and to give you the energy for your work and gym sessions. Your protein intake should not need...

Look on YouTube, especially the interview he gave in 2015, two years before his death.

In the opinion of the late Dr Joseph Kraft, the pathologist who worked out with others how to measure blood insulin levels back in 1970, some significant damage has been already been done by high insulin levels after meals over many years before HbA1c and fasting blood glucose levels become at...

Adapting to stricter LCHF diet.

I watched today on YouTube a very interesting interview. The interviewee was Dr Joseph Kraft, a retired pathologist from Chicago who was the first, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, to devise a way of measuring blood insulin levels back in 1970. The interview took place in 2015 when he was a...