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Yesterady I've eaten outside home: Pierogi with butter and ice cream. This morning I tried my fasting BG ad was low: 72 mg/dl or 4 mmol/L. That sounds to me counterintuitive: I've eaten a lot more carbs than normally I do and was expecting an higher value. I take only metformin and statins, that...

Someone says that nurses know better than doctors. :) Ok anyway the dirologist I've metd said that was better for supper to abstain to eat bread, rice, potatoes or pasta, I've the diet sheet somewhere and substitute with meat, fish, cheese, eggs or beans. I suppose that the idea that "it's...

I've found this interesing thing. http://www.weightymatters.ca/2016/09/mouse-diet-studies-arent-conclusive-for.html In other words dieting studies on mice can't be used to extrapolated effects of diet on humans. Seems to me obvious. I'm not a mice. Neither a cat for that matter.

I have a tiny question: for me, and for most Italians I know margarine is seen as 'cheap knock off used to spend less and put something yellowish instead of butter' thing. Why on earth one has to use margarine? It's an english habit?

Sorry, I've misunderstood. But what I think that switching GP (or dentist, or cardiologist, or diabetologist) because one is not at ease for a better prepared MD it's different to abandon the mainstrem medicine for some whacky science. The problem of fudged studies is another different...

I think its a slippery slope, because mistrust on medical science and doctor will transform in trust with whacky witch doctors and their oddball therapies, normally made to suck up money to ill people and their parents. In some cases withdrawing insulin for a 16 year old girl with a Type I...

I've got high cholesterol and triglycerides for years and a glucose fasting level in the 90-99 range for years. My GP said it was OK and put me on statins. Being a (former) blood donor I've found that my glucose fasting level was too high early, but on retrospective, the first symptoms of...

Just got the reading from the lab. 90 mg/dl == 5 mmol/l and HbA1c id 30 mmol/mol == 4,9%. At least these are good news! Seems the meter reads a bit lower (10%) than the lab tests I think that metformin+statins+regular walking+diet are working, even with the week in France where I ate a lot of...

HAving to do something outside work it's a great way to relax anyway. I've found that learning new languages, now for me is French is great. It's like going back to school with homework and exams. All boils down to make something and enjoy it.

This is an UK centric forum, so normally deals with NHS woes. Unfortunately the Italian health system seems to suffer lately of the same problems, no glucometer for type 2 only on metformin, the GP that simply writes prescriptions, no diabetic nurse available to to discuss my problems and so on...

Am I the only one that takes metformin and sometimes has constipation? Especially when I cut bread and pasta I've some problems in the bathtoom. I've found that a mix of psilluim and linen seeds works great, anyway.

I disagree on this. Scaring people on possible ill effects with graphic display of them normally doesn't work, simply because one knows very well rationally the possible outcomes but this does not change their behaviours. Coffin nail it's an english slang for cigarettes, isn't it? Maybe for...

Maybe the database used to send invites to diabetic courses is FUBAR, so letter are sent to the wrong people.

Hello, I'm in the same situation. Got out-of-range glycemic exam because I was a blood donor. Got metformin and statins and diet. The main difference is that having done a lot of blood exams with borderline glycemic index, nobody warned me of the risk or the fact that maybe I had prediabetes...

English isn't my native language and they aren't talking like Patrick Stewart, I found really difficult what is said in that ad...

Just a curiosity. I'm taking metformin, and I've read about some people comparing the bad taste the medicament generates as side effect. Being an ex-smoker I remember that when I was using the coffin nails my taste was totally screwed up. Giving up the cigarettes got me back a good taste. But I...

I've read amaretto... may I suggest an interesting recipe from Piedmont? Stuffed peaches with amaretto (for 4-6 servings) ingredients: • 80 gr macaroons • 10 g butter • 10 grams of cocoa powder • 70 grams of dark chocolate • 6 ripe, firm peaches • 1-2 tablespoons rum (optional) • 2 egg yolks...

Yes, I had good times. Thank you. I thi k that having bought a guide, Hachette's le routzrd, had hslped me very much, especially because using internet abroad could be difficj!t, and tripadvisor mobile site is almost unusable o. a cellphone. And of course paperbacks and paper maps don't have any...

How all it ended... First of all I've had a lot of fun, and I've managed to survive talking in French. I've had a problem and the French pharmacist was very helpful when she understood that I was still studying French (ie. when I took my dictionary and grammar to explain the problem I had. I...

I'm agreeing on this. My idea is that on most cases being overweight is a syntom either of unhealthy lifestyles or bad eating habits or is caused by a medical condition.In either cases I tinnk that dismissing being overveight (or underweight) as a small problem is not a good idea.