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Hi Jaji. Have you read Fergus's 'Newbie's guide' at the top of the Low-carb forum index? That will help you understand the process better and will help you get started. I think that the biggest hurdle a lot of people have to overcome is understanding which foods are carbohydrate, which are...

Hi Tracey. It's a bit early in the proceedings to make too many judgements on low carbing for you - it takes a while for things to rebalance. You didn't say what your normal readings are. If they have been pretty high, then your body is used to those levels and getting lower readings can...

That is so interesting Paulie - thanks for posting it. I had read before that sugar feeds cancer cells - they can't promise a cure, but I wonder how many people's cancer has gone in to remission as a result??? If it is possible, and I don't see why not, that a Ketogenic Diet can reduce or even...

Yes, well I think we would probably have a 10 year shorter lifespan if we lived at 40 or more degrees below freezing most of the year! And yes, I am taking the Inuit tribe as an example. Of course there are quite a swathe of people living and working in the colder climes - even those in...

John, things like sausages aren't bad in themselves - it just depends on what is in them. The Tescos value sausages probably have very little meat and a lot of rusk so are probably very high in carbs - and not very good ones either. If you were to go for really good sausages like M & S Premium...

UPB, I am not having a 'hissy fit'. This kind of thread brings debate out into the open and no two people are necessarily going to share the same opinion. We just don't happen to agree. I think you are reading more into my comments than is meant. Who said anything about ODing on fats? All I...

Needing carbs to maintain weight is a fallacy. There are many cultures around the World who do not eat carbs, yet they are not Belsen camp inmates! If the body is able to burn energy efficiently through fat-burning and is supplied with adequate fats for this purpose, it does not need to call...

Just another rider on this subject - I was perusing through the 'Raw for 30 days' blog.... http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2007/ ... _cured.php .......and picked up in one of the comments by someone called Chris, a reference to some interesting research info that suggests that T1 Diabetes...

There are threads where we have been discussing this John, that you might find useful reading. viewtopic.php?f=18&t=10461 viewtopic.php?f=18&t=10204 viewtopic.php?f=18&t=9783 viewtopic.php?f=18&t=9407 How can the glucose processed by the liver be any different to any other glucose? That is...

Yes, but then I am not losing muscle strength through bench pressing and neither do I need to replace it rapidly. Slowly is quite adequate for me. We were designed to work and hunt in relatively short bursts - whether we were designed to 'body build' is another matter. Just because we can...

Yes, me too - I've had to move my watch strap fitting up a notch. I seem to be losing weight without losing weight, if you know what I mean. I'm losing it around my bust too - I went out and bought clothes in size 18 and now they are too big for me. Not that I am complaining - I just can't...

Yes, and what the exercise does is help remove toxins from the system. I believe that people plateau because losing weight releases toxins into the body that have to be dealt with. Fat is a toxin store. The liver hives toxins it can't deal with at the time into fat cells where they can sit...

Personally, I think that whatever your cholesterol reading is, it is only that level at that point at that time. Had it been taken an hour before, or an hour after, it might have been totally different. The body is moving cholesterol around all the time to wherever it is needed at any given...

I have never jumped on the low-fat bandwagon - I was deeply suspicious of it right from the start, and still am. How can anything 'man-made' be better than the good natural substances that our ancestors have been eating quite happily, and healthily for thousands of years? What has changed...

Ming, bowel problems seem to be very common with Diabetes. Undoubtedly he had the Diabetes long before he ever started the diet. Gastroparesis, Steatorrhea, IBS, slow transit, etc., are all very common (I am still trying to figure out why). I had IBS for years - tending generally towards D...

Well Ming, keep positive love - tests are just tests. Getting him off sugar and carbs would not be a bad thing whatever the outcome. It seems that sugars and high sugar levels in the blood can actually help 'feed' cancer cells. Let us know how things pan out. Regards, Ali.

Breakfast/brunch between 8.30 - 11 (depending on how hungry I am which is usually not that much in the mornings) when I just have an apple and a hot drink. Lunch around 1pm - fairly light, scrambled egg or similar and a rice cake or two with butter. Dinner around 6pm - usually meat or fish...

Well done you!

Going back to this, I feel that a lot of the problems people have when they change their diet is in ditching the habits. Many of the foods we eat are as a result of deeply entrenched lifetime habits. It's programmed into us from a very young age that breakfast means cereal - probably triggered...

By the way - talking about gluten, did anyone see the report in the Daily Mail about the stowaways found at Calais inside a tanker of gluten bound for Wrexham? So, not content with already having upped the amount of gluten in grains through hybridisation, etc., from about 2% to at least 13% are...