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Hi Viv, I too eat almost no processed food as I live in Andalucia and there are loads of good fresh vegetables and meat so we don't need to. I too dislike the additives and flavourings that get put into processed food but there really is a lot of hype associated with it. Some folks decry...

I won't go on too much about this sort of Woo theory about toxins and the incorrect reports of how human digestion work. Anyone interested in finding out can look it up on Wikipedia easily enough. But there are so many incorrect statements in the last post that we would be foolish to believe...

Although I can go along with the general tenor of the previous post, it's based on some very unusual and incorrect notions of nutrition and human biology. "Any food that has been denatured - in other words stripped of all or any part of it's nutritional composition, is rendered toxic to the...

I'm type 2 and I confess to having been a little skeptical six months ago when I started the low carb, largely because of the scare stories about gut and kidney problems. But I thought I'd give it a go. There was an immediate improvement in my BG levels including waking levels. It's been...

Yes, I'm aware of the testing methodologies and the only reason I currently accept the OneTouch in preference to the Rx is because it agreed accurately with lab tests in the past. Of course, that might be coincidence given the stated accuracy of only +/-20%. The same would apply to three or...

I've been in touch with the manufacturers of the GlucoRx and they've kindly sent me some trials data which I'm analysing at the moment. The data relates to their conformance with the ISO 15197 standard along with a range of other meters. That ISO standard for accuracy actually only says that...

No probs C. I have been on a low carb for a few months and I've seen quite dramatic changes in BG measured on a OneTouch. Assuming the OT is consistent and the trials do show a good record of accuracy, then my change is a real one. At the same time, the Rx meter was all over the place. If I...

Thanks guys for the advice. Once again it seems that it can be a touchy subject. Apologies. You are one source of useful advice and I hope the site is open to other sources too, such as PubMed which is available to everyone and these trials papers are useful data that might help us all. For...

There is an interesting review article from 2010 on PubMed about BG meters which ends its conclusions with: "Without information regarding recent BG values and the current rate and direction of BG change, as provided by continuous glucose monitoring technology, reductions in the analytical...

Thanks for the link to one of the other discussions. Of course, there's an error range associated with each meter and although they're probably OK for identifying large values one way or the other, they won't reliably help in identifying trends, ie if you are gradually reducing your levels...

I've just been testing the consistency of the GlucoRx versus the OneTouch Ultra and I've found a significant variation in the GlucoRx. Testing the same site twice on the Rx gave significantly different values, like 7.5 and 9.8, when at the same point my OneTouch Ultra gave 6.5 twice - I used...

Nice one! It's really good to hear about other people getting results and gives the rest of us encouragement. Thanks.

An Hb1Ac of 6.2, down from 7.7 when I started the low carb diet and 6.7 a month ago, has encouraged me and I notice that I hardly ever feel hungry and never feel tired. Since I now feel much more in control and generally fitter, I've started to record my BG much less often and I'm testing odd...

I knew I shouldn't have written "my first two weeks" because it was obviously going to take longer than that to see any real results. Boredom has well and truly set in though I'm not discouraged. It's immensely tedious checking blood levels and reading every label but until my BG is properly...

No problem. The process is detailed in most standard biochem textbooks (Lehninger for example) and some pharmacology texts as well and I don't think anything I've said is controversial. It's a very well-understood process (amongst biochemists :)) but the details rather inhibit its...

I didn't give any opinion except to correct a couple of factually incorrect points. What happens is quite independent of what I might think about it. I only offered the explanation because there's a lot of confusion about the role of alcohol in BG levels. Agreed that the details are complex...

Cugila, I think some of what you are suggesting is a bit incorrect. At the risk of being too technical, I'll try and say how it works. Those who don't want the explanation, jump to the last paragraph :) The rise in BG from alcoholic drinks will come only from the sugar in them, either added...

Muscle pain is not uncommon in diabetes and is a recognised form of neuropathy. The form that affects the muscles in the thighs is called femoral neuropathy and is not uncommon in patients over 50. So before assuming that it is either the statins or the metformin, it's best to get it checked...

What is interesting in this research is not so much that a low-carb pre-meal reduces the impact of later carb loading, but that the low carb pre-meal itself seems to reduce plasma free fatty acids. That suggests a potentially interesting mechanism for why consistently low-carb diets can help...

Still seems to be on track though I've noticed that even without breakfast, I can get a glucose rise a couple of hours after waking. Maybe that's the gluconeogenesis thing but it's disconcerting. With a waking BG of around 7 it can jump to 8.5 or even 9. I take my metformin and it comes down...