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As a child I used to dislike most vegetables, and deeply loathed cabbage. This persisted for many years, and I always tended to avoid them, until I discovered that what I really hated was badly cooked vegetables! I was subjected to vegetables that had been boiled for hours until they turned...

Before being diagnosed I mostly drank beer. Most beers (I think all halfway decent beers) are chock full of really easily absorbed carbohydrate - and do very bad things to BG levels. Sadly this means that beer must now be a rare treat indeed :cry: Fortunately, I have also always been fond of...

I am pretty sure that you can buy them over the counter at most chemists. You can certainly order them online - for example Clinistix are £5.35 for 50 from pharmacy2u.

This sort of thing should, of course, never happen. However, given that it does, and that it is better to find out before rather than after the damage is done - why not carry some urine glucose dip sticks? If you dip them in your drink then diet drinks should not react, but full sugared ones...

Absolutely! The way that I look at it like this. The human body is a massively complex and intricate machine, that in almost all respects drives us through life on an autopilot - continually making tiny adjustments to the situations that we find ourselves in. Metabolic diseases, such as...

It is really quite shocking how little advice and support is given to many newly diagnosed T2s. I know that some people get really good support - I guess that the NHS postcode lottery strikes again! I was only diagnosed a few weeks ago, and all I was given was an initial 10 minutes with a GP...

Do be careful about DIY diagnosis. If you do have diabetes your blood sugars will probably be all over the place, and so they could well pass through what is considered "normal". If you are going to try this, then it should be a fasting test - i.e. before you have eaten in the morning...

I have ordered a few ingredients from them, and some low carb breakfast products. They seem quite good - quite expensive, but they have a good range and it arrives quickly. I have posted reviews of the Atkins Nutritional Breakfast Bars and Flax-Z-Snax Hot Cereal that they sell in the Diabetes...

When I was diagnosed I started off, on the advice of a diabetes nurse, regularly eating a high carb – mostly porridge – breakfast :x . I am now mostly having a cooked, very low carb, breakfast but I am also interested in quick alternatives – and the Flax-Z-Snax hot cereal from the...

Since discovering them some years ago, I have always had a fondness for breakfast bars - compressed bars of fruit, cereal and nuts that make a great snack at any time of the day. Up until I was diagnosed with diabetes, I used to eat large numbers of these things but I haven’t touched them since...

Palpitations have been reported as a side effect of Metaformin. It isn't one of the common side effects, but is is recognised. If the palpitations started at the same time you started taking the Metaformin, then there is a good chance that this is the root cause. However, do remember that it...

Are you on any medication, or are you controlling diabetes by diet and exercise alone? Diabetes itself doesn't cause palpitations, but they can be a side effect of the drugs that are sometimes used to control it. Palpitations can also be a sign of thyroid disease - and that is one of the many...

Beer does contain quite a lot of carbohydrates - even pils (although that does have less than most others). You might be better off learning to love red wine. The alcohol lowers BG (although be careful if you are at risk of hypos), and the anthocyanins (the red stuff) reduce the risks of heart...

Well, sort of. Diabetes research is one of the major areas of medical research because it is the "glamorous" end of medicine. Anyone who comes up with a treatment that comes even close to being a "cure" will probably win a Nobel prize and certainly be an instant scientific superstar. That...

Exactly. In non-diabetics the fasting level might go this high the day after a particularly huge feast, but even then it is quite unlikely. Unless you lead a pretty amazing (not to mention suicidally overindulgent) lifestyle then the chances of this happening on two different days are zilch...

Non-diabetic usually have a fasting BG of less than 5.5. Anything in the 5.5-7 range is generally considered to be pre-diabetic and 7+ is usually indicative of full-blown diabetes. Most doctors like to confirm this with a Glucose Tolerance Test, although but two readings of over 7 on separate...

Have a look at the Low Carb Breakfast Products on the Low Carb Megastore - they have lots of low carb "cereals" and breakfast bars etc.

If you know what you are looking for, then use Google Scholar - it is one of the main tools that academics use to find new scientific literature. If you choose the Advanced Scholar Search then you can specify things like authors names and a date range. The tricky bit is that you need a way in...

People tend to think diabetes as a cause of excessive thirst, and it often is the first obvious sign of that. However, there are many, many other conditions can cause this (wrongdiagnosis.com lists 115 causes of thirst). The best way of diagnosing diabetes is a "Glucose Tolerance Test" (this...

Another problem with GI is that people vary. Unless you calculate the GI yourself - from BG data that you collect in a fairly tightly controlled experiment - the effect that a food has on you might be quite different from what you are lead to believe from published values. Those published...