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All sounds perfectly normal to me and not disimilar to my own experience. I found the same with eating porridge too. Your body will always add extra glucose to your system when you get roughly below 4.0 via a process called gluconeogenesis. It is one of a number of homeostatic processes that...

With many conditions where a person feels ill, making the effort to improve usually results in feeling better, it doesn't hurt as much, I find this or that easier than before etc etc. Diabetes though is about avoiding future problems and future damage. It's not so easy recognise the fact that...

104 mg/dl is normal, it's 5.8 mmol/L. See what the average is over a period and stop worrying for the time being. Even if you are mostly over and in the pre diabetic stage, you can almost certainly bring it down again with diet and exercise.

These poor souls ate so much marzipan, Niederegger turned them into it:

I had six pickled eggs. My wife told me to go sit elsewhere.

The Newcastle team dod out up a list of recipes: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/documents/StudyRecipes.pdf Don't worry about the carbs, it is a calorie restriction diet first and a low carb diet second. Ordinarily, you need something like 220 g carbs per day so you are low...

Porridge does have a glycaemic index in the lower range but it is also an easily digestible food. It's why gruel is often given to sick people. Quick cook rolled oats are the spikiest. If they do bother you and you still want some, get some pinhead or steel cut oats and cook them for 25 mins...

They won't have been processed at the hosital until the Friday and then the results sent through to the surgery on the Monday, so you should at least until tomorrow PM or Wednesday.

Your body regulates many things, temperature, hydration, iron levels, calcium levels etc and of course glucose levels. These processes are colelctively called homeostasis, literally, same state. As your body requires glucose, there is a mechanism for it to produce its own if you don't eat any...

And specific population samples. A study in one part of europe will likely provide different results to a similar study undertaken on a different population in another part of europe. People are different regionally, even within the UK. The Wellcome Trust are currently undertaking a case...

But, but, but, you missed the chilli, ginger, tomato, garlic, corriander, cumin, fenugreek, cinammon, garam massala, and all those things that turn otherwise boring vegetables into a mega tasting meal :-) Chilli garlic mushrooms, great comfort food whilst watching TV.

The majority of the world's population would get sick eating the cream because they lack a lactase persistence gene. One evolutionary mechanism is that one man's food is another man's poison and hence populations thrive or decline due to selective evolutionary advantages/disadvantages.

Really useful that was, "Dear Mr XXX. The test is negative. This does not mean however that you do not have bowel cancer."

Depends what your starting figures are. I got down to under 40 hba1c but it took me a year. My morning levels were around the 9s and 10s and over the months they slowly came down via 8s and 9s and then 7s and 8s. Now I am mostly 4s and 5s. It takes time and you have to work at it. Things don't...

Up for a grim time?

Perhaps you remember the newsreel footage of parents pushing packs of fish and chips through the school fence at lunchtime because the kids refused to eat the new healthy options and the school retaliated by not letting them leave the premises. I heard some minor council official actually say...

Give me your money. It's for your own good. I will put it to good use, like closing down the A&E in Calderdale and propping up HBOS. Or closing down A&E in Dewsbury and propping up RBS. Our governments, irrespective of colour, have an insatiable appetitie for your money and are extremely...

I love the retro style phone, very 1980s

The problem with capillary blood is that the blood taken by finger prick samples are a mix of undetermined proportions of blood from arterioles, venules, capillaries, plus interstitial and intracellular fluids. There is no point in making meters super accurate because the method of sampling is...

I get it in my fingers sometimes, during the day but mostly in my toes at night. It is some sort of cramp. Drinking more water helped me a lot but, now that I stopped taking statins, I don't seem to get them anymore. Nothing to do with high bloods though, they're pretty good.