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Re: ...and 'they' say higher protein is bad for the kidneys. Well, if I was just eating the low-carb diet straight I would still be getting pretty good nutrition - and a lot more than I was when I was eating the 'normal' high-carb diet, but I am on a special 'healing' diet - and that needs...

Re: ...and 'they' say higher protein is bad for the kidneys. Well no, you're right - most of us wouldn't want to replicate their diet, but it does go to show that humans can survive - and survive pretty well in just about any given circumstance. What the link is between virtually ALL the more...

http://www.naturalnews.com/032717_low-c ... ilure.html Can't quite figure out though why they feel it is dangerous to keep going with it in the long-term. People like the Inuit eat a diet like that all their lives..... It's just fear of the ' scientific unknown' because no one has bothered to...

...it seems to have been taken over by recipe martians from the planet Lowus-Carbohydratus..... I thought I'd been abducted for a minute... Hi everyone! Take me to your leader......

Hi. It sounds as if there is something going on in your digestive system. I would suggest you speak to your Doctor and get it checked out. All sorts of things could be triggering it. We are not medically trained, and even if we were we could not give advice on that sort of thing on this...

It may be a recognised medical discipline - but what do they actually prevent? If they could stop people getting diabetes, we wouldn't have the epidemic on our hands. They don't appear to even 'know' what causes it, let alone prevent it..... They haven't yet stopped people getting cancer, or...

As I haven't posted on here very often until now, I missed jumping in at the beginning, but I feel one of the biggest problems is that we have become a very 'dependent' and in some ways 'brainwashed' society - having had the ability to think for ourselves overwhelmed by a plethora of 'Big...

Leg cramps can be due to a lack of magnesium - and we are very deficient in that - undoubtedly because of the low salt diets we are encouraged to follow. The fact that people often get cramps at night is probably because the body uses more then as it does its cleansing and healing work and...

When I had hypos I just used to have a square of bitter chocolate and would test about 5 minutes later. If it was still low I would have another one and that would usually be enough to bring me back up. I would then go an have some protein which would help keep my BG levels stable. The...

Hi. Like Viv, I eat a very low-carb diet. It is also a very nutritionally-rich diet. What I have found is that since I have dumped the carbs - although I had a lot of craving for the first few weeks - eventually that 'gnawing hunger' went away and I now can just eat what I need and no more...

What's 'balanced' at the end of the day? It's all relative. If you live in the Mediterranean you eat a 'balanced' diet. If you live in Alaska you eat a 'balanced' diet. If you live in the Outer Hebrides you eat a 'balanced' diet. If you live in any one of the hundreds of different areas in...

Hi Everyone - thought it was about time I showed me face - or in this case it's the other end, but I'm not sure there's much difference.... I found for a while after going LC that my bowels, which had been plagued with IBS-D for around 12 years until I dumped the gluten and most carbs, went the...

I only made the reference to the fruit because Bob mentioned pineapple. Many people can't cope with fruit very well - I know it sends my BG into orbit. The link was to an article on sugar - 'Sugar the sweetest poison of all'. It is widely copied across the net - that particular site was...

Fruit isn't safer for us diabetics simply because our ability to process it is already impaired. Our bodies cannot differentiate between good and bad carbs because that process in us is damaged. Cultures and communities that don't get diabetes don't get it because they eat an all natural...

I don't post on here very often but couldn't resist chipping in on this one. One thing that has been driven home to me over the last three years since I started all my research, is that the Western Diet is VERY devoid of nutrition. Oh yes, much is touted about calories and fibre and this and...

I can't process carbs very well at all either so have to be low-carb whether I wanted to be or not. By being low-carb though I have been able to reduce my insulin and metformin right down to a quarter of what I was taking originally, and lots of 'complications' have got better and gone. I...

The Metformin helps the liver use the Insulin more effectively so I have to take a Metformin when I take any insulin. I have never been informed, read or seen anywhere that the Metformin needs to be taken regularly. I do find though that the Insulin does work better for me if accompanied by a...

Umm, what is strange about meat, fish, poultry, eggs, veg and fats? Am I missing something? What on earth do you eat, if you find these foods 'strange'??? Most people I know eat most of those foods - at some point. Most days. I don't post very often, because when I do, invariably I get shot...

Yes, but how would you know if you have never tried it? It takes a while for the body to readjust to fat-burning - several weeks for some, and many would be too fearful/distrusting to attempt it. It takes a strong will and ability to be able to do self-adjustment with one's medication, etc...

No Sue it doesn't - not when you are in Ketosis - when your body is using fat for fuel. Fat does not affect insulin levels so it fluctuates very little. The only carbs I eat is a portion or two of non-starchy veg with my main meal, and whatever is in the meat, fish, poultry or eggs. Some eat...