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Hi Sue. No, no other meds - I was able to drop the BP tablets not long after going gluten-free. I suppose it is possible it could be the Metformin, but I have been on it for at least 8 years or more and have never experienced that before. Ali.

Hi guys (and gals). Although I have never been low-fat oriented, I upped my intake of fats along with my low-carb regime about 4 or 5 days ago. Last night I suddenly developed a rather unpleasant metallic taste in my mouth. Has anyone else experienced that at all? It may be totally...

I think it comes back to different cultures being adapted to eat their own traditional diet - gut flora differs in different cultures - those that consume a lot of yogurt and fermented foods appear to have a different balance of bacteria in the gut to those who eat mainly fish, meat and fat, or...

What they don't add is that the people who eat more red meat probably also eat a lot of carbohydrates..........

This is an interesting thread too. I was particularly interested in your bit about Sleep apnoea, Dave. I have been nagging a friend of mine to get off gluten but it looks like she needs to be off carbs in general too. She is a good stone or two overweight and is now having to use a C-PAP...

True, but then wasn't Stefansson Swedish? To a certain extent he would already have been eating a not dissimilar diet - the Scandinavian diet is very fish and meat-oriented. Perhaps if someone carried out the same experiment who had come from South America he would have come up with a totally...

I'll throw my oar in here again. I think that kind of blanket assumption has to be taken with a pinch of salt. At the end of the day 'stone age' or otherwise, it depended where you were as to what kind of food you ate. People in Northern climes would predominantly eat a diet based around...

The thing is that whatever they ate was always eaten in its purest form. Bleaching rice, and wheat flour is a modern concept. As someone who is very gluten-intolerant and who may or may not be Coeliac, I have done a lot of research on wheat and grains. It was about 300 years ago when a monk...

Now there's a question. I don't know. I suppose a bit may pass through - certainly unwanted, or unneeded aspects of it, 'old' fats, but I would say that by far the majority of it is utilised by the body in some way or another. As the following article points out, the human brain consists of...

People have been eating high-fat diets for centuries. What they haven't been eating is the sugar and highly processed 'dead' carbs that are endemic within our modern Western diet. The incidence of Diabetes, and also many other of our 'modern' diseases are not endemic within the population of...

Ah yes, but not all fats are equal. It leaves out more information than it gives. Perhaps those on that study who eat loads of animal fats also consume a large amount of carbohydrates! It also doesn't qualify what kind of saturated fats are consumed. Perhaps they eat a lot of chips fried in...

I have been reading this with interest. It's funny - you know, I never did jump on to the 'low-fat' bandwagon, even though I was well overweight and seemingly shouldn't have been eating fats. My Dad used to tut at the amount of butter I would have on bread, etc. which made me feel a bit guilty...

Re: Anyone use Byetta? Yeah, and he probably got a bonus for dishing me the Byetta as well. I hate Doctors, and I hate drugs. I have been following the Specific Carbohydrate Diet with some success and currently I am working through a liver cleansing diet. It has triggered off some weird...

Re: Anyone use Byetta? I have to chip in here. I was given Byetta just under two years ago. My Diabetic 'Specialist' suggested it to me as an alternative to the insulin I was on and mentioned that weight loss is a side effect. I said I would go away and do some research and come back to him...