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This looks very good and a step up in the game. However still at £3/day you are looking at over £1k/year this is still too steep for me to justify as I pay nothing for the current setup of finger pricks. I expect the NHS would not want to fork out for this but I would be interested in the...

As i came on here to actually share a success story, here are some results I graphed up when I changed from a traditional diet to LCHF. This was about 2 years ago and shows the effects of low carb on my BG levels Should be fairly self-explanatory.

Regarding salt - low carb means you excrete more salt therefore replacement is often needed (and can be why you can feel not so great if you have too low salt). Add a cup of stock/broth per day can help.

As per heathenlass – this thread is being diverted. It is a) not even about weight loss (and that is what forge is trying to make it about) and b) about people’s personal experiences with improvement to diabetes. Forge I am afraid you are very confused about many things and are contradicting...

Hi Forge, With the greatest of respect, you claim to have dug in and “know it all” yet the two links you originally provided do very little to support your case. This is because they assess Low carb versus low fat diets, and their readout is weight loss. They do not largely interrogate low carb...

I think that there are several issues overlooked all too easily with the low fat vs low carb debate. They are worth bearing in mind. 1) One scientific study is not directly comparable to another We place huge emphasese on scientific studies proving this, that and the other and the problem is...

Hi Artemis, Honey is an interesting natural source of "sugars". It is a form of invert sugar which increases it's hygroscopic properties and this is why it does not easily go off and is often used heavily in the confectionery business. Being a natural invert sugar it is therefore a mixture of...

Hi Gem, Is it just tingling or is there pain associated with it such as with lateral movements? Diabetics are more prone to some shoulder conditions such as frozen shoulder and calcific tendinitis but there is little known about why this is nor of how it could be prevented. Just something to...

Pot. Kettle. Black. If I apparently do not add any information nor seek information then I must contribute nothing to this forum nor benefit and that raises the point of being here at all. I will therefore let you get on with your superior contributions as I do not wish to be drawn into making...

Of course you are when you are taking something I say out of context and missing the rest of it. Your point is invalid - you made a sweeping statement that I was saying one thing, which I was not soleyl saying. If you make such a statement, you have a duty or at least a courtesy to at least get...

Did you not read the majority of my post? You cannot take one part of what I say out of context and say something completely different - that just is not fair. I think I was fairly clear in my post that I was commenting a lot on criticisms of peer-published papers by the general public to be a...

Re: How & why scientific reports are published We would do well to not ignore public opinion and indeed public rationality, intelligence, and experience. Strip down medicine to its basic elements and you can usually safely conclude that if enough people report a similar finding than this...

Hi Glazed, I am very pleased to hear your success story - those are great numbers and good news to hear. Have you had your tri's and LDL:HDL ratio levels checked recently, and do you have reference values to compare with if you have recently obtained these? Those would be quite interesting as...

This is very true (the bit in bold) - and a reason why I left academia. The success rates for grant applications used to bearound 25-30% and if you were a good young investigator you had a good chance of start-up grants. In recent years, this has fallen to 5-6% which means many are struggling...

Hi Sid, I don't think that it has completely decended into "gang fights" ! I would like to think most of us can have a good, reasoned and rational discussion about the merits and pitfalls of any research article posted on here. I certainly would not say things like this cannot be posted here -...

Hi Quasimodo, Sorry to hear about your diagnosis, unfortunately PC is quite prevelant and is on the rise. The company I work for have just received a £4m technology transfer grant to develop a drug to target PC. As said already hormones largely contribute to the survival and progression of PC...

Hi Migey, Sorry to hear about your recent diagnosis. It is a difficult time but trust me you will get to grips with it and can live a somewhat normal life! It is a treatble disease, but one to take seriously. There is no (known) interaction between Novorapid and alcohol. The reason you are...

Hi Sam, Thanks for the link, I had a look at the thread and the study and posted my comments, not sure if they are of any use (plus I am pretty tired so brain not fully engaged!), but it was interesting nonetheless. Cheers! J

This study is certainly interesting to bring up and should certainly be given some thought, but to my mind quickly appears the limitations of such studies. There are several problems I have with this study, and those similar. - There is no context of what we are concerned with. I.e. we are...

The silver lining of so many of us having negative experiences with the health care system is that we can come on here and vent frustation but find solace in the fact that we are not alone when we go against Dr's advice, nor are we the only ones who feel we are never going to ever be doing good...