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Agreed on the points about AI being the latest tech fad and companies trying to sell gadgets. I did not intend to scaremonger, just struggling for language to convey the question I'm trying to answer. The company in question appears to believe they can eventually implement some rough...

Agreed, no consensus on what is a healthy diet. If the AI has access to continuous blood glucose monitoring data though, together with a log of what was eaten, could it theoretically rate a food based on how long a person spent above a certain BG threshold for example? 'Poison minutes' or...

Understood, I completely understand the desire to keep blood glucose under the tightest control possible, and I agree. The element of the AI thing I'm referring to is aimed at diabetics. From what I can make out BlueStar in it's current form is a system that can be implemented by large health...

LOL You do have a point here, though, and I know this is a contentious point on this forum, the theory it's based on is that it's not just about how much raw carbs you eat but about how quickly those carbs hit your bloodstream. The conventional advice about wholegrains being better than...

Hi folks, I heard though a relative that there's a company that is trying to use AI to predict blood glucose response following food intake. The general principle, I believe, is that they gather data from CGM devices, combine it with some kind of food intake logging, have an AI analyse the...

Understood. I should mention that I look on the food pyramid model as being overly simplistic and quite dubious in the context of a diabetes diagnosis. It was that thinking that led me here in the first place. I will say that the serving sizes for carbs on the Irish pyramid are much lower...

Excellent recommendation, thank you. It was very informative. Part of my hesitancy around low carb is associated with what I know about doctors. I have two in my extended family, an aunt who's a retired consultant, and a first cousin who's a GP. Another aunt is married to a retired GP. I...

Got it, I misunderstood the context of that post. Thank you for the correction.

I'm a fan. I'm here because the people on this forum are, collectively, experts in the use of a restricted diet to control diabetes. No question about that. It's a fantastic resource, and I'm here to learn. That said there's a lot of dodgy information on here stated as fact. The forum rules...

The diets of the ancestors… an hour of Googlings and an hour of thinking about it. The following information is not fact checked but I will make statements about it as if it was fact, like someone pretending to be an expert. Modern humans have been farming grains for at least 10,000 years...

Well, apparently, the Irish government tells everyone they shouldn't eat much butter, for health reasons, while at the same time butter is one if Ireland's largest exports. I suspect some kind of clever reverse psychology is at work, no doubt formulated by an evil genius in a bunker deep under...

Hi folks, I've read some things on this forum relating to the Eatwell Plate, something I'd never heard of until a few days ago. Something about it being rigged by Big Wheetabix in order to kill off all the diabetics or.. I couldn't follow it all to be honest. I'd need to Do My Own Research on...

The massive rise in fast food outlets of all types illustrates that people are following 1980s food pyramid dietary advice less, not more, than they used to. Is there even a fast food chain that adheres to that model?

This fits very well with my current (amateur hour) theory - the composition of a meal, which can trigger the urge to stuff yourself, combined with it being rapidly digestible is like a metabolic hammer. It would explain why there's apparent evidence for either sugar or fat as the culprit as the...

If losing muscle is a very big concern and if your weight loss has plateaued lately then I'd suggest considering pausing the diet for a while until you learn more. I'm a complete amateur at this stuff - some expert advice might be a good idea. Re. the Fitbit - I like mine, particularly the...

Tesco do an own-brand multivitamin with B12 at 100% RDA. Very cheap. That should be enough as most people have stores of B12 in their bodies big enough to last a couple of years. Unless B12 has been missing from your diet for a long time? In which case maybe consider taking two or three pills a...

You won't be able to spot the lower resting heartrate when up and about as when you move your heart beats as fast as it needs to relative to your level of movement. I noticed no difference in my heartrate when I was exercising. Even sitting in a chair elevates it. You might be able to spot it...

I think have in a sense but I kind of powered through it. On the spreadsheet image I posted, in the notes, there's a reference to 'crashed' metabolism. As I understand it, and I don't understand it very well: If the brain thinks it might be in a potential starvation situation it reacts by...

Thank you, and happy birthday! :) I hope you recover soon and get to do some celebrating. I had avoided the doctor for a few years, since the beginning of the pandemic. The doctor's surgery seemed like an unsafe place to go during that time. When I eventually did go, with a small list of...

Hit a milestone today – 10 Kg lost since diagnosis, around 1.6 stone, 10% of my body weight. I did some reading when I was diagnosed and my doctor very strongly urged me to lose weight, and I set out to lose 1Kg or 1% of my body weight per week, whichever is smaller. This maximum rate...