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Oh yes. This is life-changing. This is a wake-up call to the fact that carbs, and particularly refined ones are damaging everyone in some way or another. This is the realisation that I don't feel deprived any more, I feel liberated. I am no longer controlled by food - I control it. And why...

I have to say that I battled with the 'why me' and the 'feeling deprived' thing for years until I did all this research and realised that everyone would benefit from dropping the gluten and carbs, and why eating a very good nutritious diet is really so very important. I have to say that the...

Ming, we have this fixation with being 'filled up'. Unfortunately that is what gets us into trouble in the first place. You know those extremely obese people who can't stop eating? Well, if you analyze their diet, all they eat is 'filling' stuff. What their bodies are gasping for is not...

Hana, there is a huge advantage to dumping gluten - it can't then do you any further damage........ As a severely gluten-intolerant Diabetic myself I have done a huge amount of research on this evil stuff - excuse me for being so virulent about it, but it is. It has been so 'meddled with' in...

Personally I would be surprised if there are many people out there who wouldn't get an elevated blood sugar reading two hours after ingesting 75g of pure glucose! Yes it may well act as a test to indicate the development of Diabetes, but it has no bearing on your day to day functionality as a...

Veggie that is very interesting. I have learned a lot about Gluten, Coeliac, Diabetes, et al over the last year or two but it was good to see it put into simple but scientific understanding. Modern gluten is evil stuff (and dairy isn't far behind it). Whereas original wheat had about 2%...

The trouble is that 'most' people don't realise that their health problems are actually stemming from the same source. We, and Celiacs/gluten intolerants are actually pretty fortunate in some ways because we can see what is affecting us and how, but when symptoms are not that obvious people...

Why do people always want to try and replace their 'normal' food with other similar products? I see this on the Celiac forum I post on. People just end up swapping one ****** gluten carb for another ****** non-gluten carb! Often they are actually worse off because gluten-free carb stuff is...

On the odd occasion I do eat rice, I prefer the brown version - not only do I enjoy the 'nutty' taste and texture, but because it has a higher fibre content it doesn't spike my blood sugar like the white bleached processed stuff does! It is better nutritionally as well, and I'm all for...

I have just read that apparently being in Ketosis suppresses the appetite - which is great to a certain extent if you want to lose weight but I would suggest that if you are getting towards your goal weight you may need to reintroduce a few carbs. It is good to be in Ketosis - but not too far...

AC, I have just been reading in Ron Rosedale's book that if the body is used to burning sugar and we go into a low-carb diet without adding much in the way of good fats, in order to try to continue sugar burning the body may end up breaking down muscle protein to provide more sugar. I am...

I actually think that the Rosedale Diet makes even more sense. Certainly some of the protocols that Byron Richards suggests are good but Ron Rosedale takes it further into an actual diet and seems to have had tremendous success in treating and in his words actually 'curing' Diabetes. By far...

Perhaps this might explain it a little better and give you some idea of what is going on? http://www.drrosedale.com/resources/pdf ... 0Block.pdf and this one http://www.drrosedale.com/resources/pdf ... weight.pdf Are you getting enough good fats? I am currently reading Dr Rosedale's book and...

I have just posted a bit about Leptin - apparently it is Leptin that controls a lot of other functions including insulin release and the ghrelin hunger signals. The constant overeating seems to end up creating not only insulin resistance but also leptin resistance. The leptin resistance is...

Oh, and on the low-carb thing, yes my diet is relatively low-carb, but that is because I have known for years that I don't tolerate carbs at all and it took the collapse of my digestion to finally spur me into taking it all seriously. I had 'dabbled' with low-carb for years but my diet is...

Sorry Ken, I had done some further research on the net but hadn't retained any links. I have had to go back and see what I can find. Here are a few interesting ones...... http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2008 ... edfellows/ http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v22/n ... 0559a.html...

It is Leptin resistance that is the issue and it is that that seems to have a knock-on effect to insulin and the way we process carbs - that and the tendency that we in the 'West' have to constantly 'graze'. Because we don't eat properly and allow enough time between each lot of food the body...

I have been reading about the connection between Leptin levels and Insulin resistance and it is pretty interesting. Leptin is not something that most people, including Doctors are aware of simply because there is no pill for it! There has been quite a bit of research done on it however...

If you have had any issues with Candida, or other yeasts and microbes it is possible that the wind may be a 'die-off' symptom. I think the beasties get pretty aggravated when their food source is taken away and can produce all sorts of by-products as they deplete. Certainly have had that at...

Carob is a product made from the locust bean I believe - it is roasted and ground into a powder. Some people use it as a chocolate 'substitute' although I don't think it tastes anything like chocolate. It is not unpleasant though. I got mine through a herbal shop on Ebay but you should be...