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Porridge used to spike me but gradually I could eat it. Metabolism does change with weight loss and exercise, they way you digest food and your sensitivity to insulin improves. The changes to blood chemistry are qyuite remarkable. Also, if you lose enough weight, some of your beta cell islets...

Console yourself with the fact that you are normal. The genes which allow adults to digest milk are relatively new mutations and only a few thousand years old. For most humans and most of history, lactose intolerance is/was the norm.

In my opinion yes. The labelling can make it look as if they are relatively high in carbs but they conatin a lot of fiber and also a lot of resistant starch. Carbs come in different forms, alpha carbs, which humans can mostly digest and beta carbs which humans mostly cannot digest. Beta carbs...

They are worth their weight in gold for anyone willing to use the data. It took me about 3 months to work out what effect certain foods had on me and, once I understood that I could eat this but should avoid that, I could work out a diet. Then I started to use the meter to see if the diet was...

I do have a very dry mouth and lips yes. I often keep a bottle of water next to the bed. A CPAP shouldn't directly affect the gums unless you have a very badly fitting mask but if you are very dry, it might indirectly affect you that way. They do humidifier attachements for people who get very...

Kiddies always tug at the heart strings and parents feel their pain more than they do. Be thankful that you are able to do something for him. I used to do a lot of genealogy and always felt sad at seeing a child's baptism when I already had knowledge of his early death. Infant mortality has...

Yes, It is an area best approached with caution. Yes, I can eat chocolates, or biscuits and still have normal results. Something is working again But, there is permanent damage and my beta cells ain't what they used to be. I had a slow puncture and things were getting worse. I've patched it up...

That is the key point if you have had diabetes and appear to have reversed it. Your tipping point back into a diabetic state is unknown so vigilance is required. But, I would rather be in my current situation than the shocking state I was in before I got diabetes. I am fitter and healthier now...

4.7 this morning and 4.8 yesterday. Nothing to do with exercise, I have a cold, am not eating much and just drinking water. I call it the very cheap diet.

And produce more gas than the North Sea :-) I eat lots of pulses but no longer have close friends.

Yes do. This is what Roy Taylor writes: "The role of physical activity must be considered. Increased levels of daily activity bring about decreases in liver fat stores and a single bout of exercise substantially decreases both de novo lipogenesis and plasma VLDL. Several studies demonstrated...

Neuropathy is to do with the nerves not blood. If you have very poor circulation in the feet you are in danger of gangrene not neuropathy. You are probably alarming yourself unnecessarily and constant nagging pains clouds thinking. Even a bad toothache can wear you out physically and emotionally...

10 mmol/L roughly equates to 7.9% DCCT (62.8 mmol/mol) I say roughly because they are actually measuring different things. There is a conversion utility at http://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-units-converter.html I was a lot higher than you but got it down so, don't be too alarmed, just be...

Slow cooked (24 hours) Mallorcan Tumbet. I add in 3 different types of bean and a handful of wholewheat penne. Cooking it for 24 hours breaks everything down and it turns into a solid, but still moist, dish. I do it overnight in a slow cooker and then transfer to a casserole the following...

Personally I think you are throwing your life away and you are putting your wife in an impossible situation. She will have to live with this for the rest of her life. If you are determined to go through with what you say though, don't tell us, tell a newspaper, the sort which will campaign about...

We get the wrong idea about diabetes in the UK largely because of the media. Diabetes rates in the UK is actually lower than many cuontries we think of as healthy. Vietnam has see an explosion of diabetes for example: Diabetes goes boom in Vietnam The cause is nearly always urbanisation and...

There are a bewildering number of different noodle types. I bought some brown rice noodles at my local chine supermarket and he proudly informed me that they were getting 20 more noodle types next month. They must have 50 by now. Still, one of the kindest for me, weight for weight, are Blue...

Cutting out bread, potatoes and pasta and you will lose weight? What an outrageous suggestion :-)

No party standing on an election promise to increase general taxation has ever been elected in my lifetime. The NHS has just over 1,600,000 employees and is the 4th largest employer in the world. Of that 1,600,000, about 550,000 are involved in healthcare, doctors, nurses, heamatologists...