Search Results

If you thought of glucose of intolerance as sunburn, I as ginge avoid the sun and use factor 50 as an adult. I was born in a time where getting a tan was seen as a good thing, and I spent many happy days on the beach as child, I have had a skin cancer removed. Its now common for people to use...

If you can not cook, the life saver is the stir fry. Treat yourself to a good heavy wok or lidded saute pan, the hardest part is chopping the veg. You can add ready cooked meat if you like. A sauce, yes some carbs but not a lot and then at the end you add low carbs noodles. Then you have a tasty...

I am a HCP. Boo hiss. If they haven't had LC endorsed by the powers that control their teaching, it has to be 'evidenced based', its best after the, 'I am controlling the amount of carbohydrate I eat', and you do not the right answer, its best to do C. Less stressful. Its frustrating, but...

I would have thought the most likely cause of this was social change. Most of the men in my family died in their early sixties, my dad at 55. They left school at 14, went into manual jobs, engineering ,mining etc, with no H&S rules. Were smoking at 14 and only one room of the house was properly...

Its a perfect storm of two ingredients. Carbs are cheap, produced in large amounts, easy to cook and enable the expensive protein part of the meal look bigger, food companies are able to sell food for huge mark up. The low fat diet became the cure for heart disease, it looked like a good idea...

I had this conversation the other day. The standard response is 28 days, I suppose that's because its a safe to assume that most pens will be safe up to the date, and most NHS Trusts stick to that and its in their protocol's, and DN's use several types of insulin.

I think unless you not well controlled and people you work with need to know, I wouldn't tell them. Your on a low carb diet because you feel better for it or you 'want to lose weight'. I have high lipids, I have had high lipids for ever. You go to the GP's and you get the low fat diet talk...

I had a very bad skin condition last year and saw two consultants one privately and one for the NHS. Skin is a tough one, no pun intended, what seems to work one day doesn't work another and doctors tend to prescribe steroids when often its a process of elimination and like you say using...

I think you have to give yourself a break. If you are teaching someone to drive you wouldn't expect them to get everything right all the time. You are doing your research, that's a tick. Set achievable goals, if you have a diet coke its not going to do anything to your BS, but may help you...

When I am at work I live out of my car. I use superstore loos, less to tempt you than Costa and if you need a coffee most now have coffee machines. I never know when I will have time to eat, so what I do not eat I have for supper when I get home. Not perfect but that's shift work. I have a...

All right its not scientific but I eat roughly 1500 cals a day and should be still be losing weight if the calories in out theory works and walk 6-10,000 steps. So I should be still losing weight, I am not. I know enough people who exist on very little food and are healthy, and some people who...

I would look at tofu, Waitrose have a few varieties and they are cheaper than the health food shops. Quorn, if you buy it plain it should be vegan, Then there is texturized soya protein, TVP, which is higher in carbs but by the time you hydrate it you have an awful lot for the amount of carbs...

I work with a lot of elderly people who in general have had their lives made miserable, because most of like eating, because they are supposed to eat low fat, for heart health,and then told because they have diabetes, usually Type2 they have to cut down sugar but can eat some carbs. Which leads...

From the right sort of carb thread. I found this very interesting, honestly. This guy has been through a lot of the studies and the evidence is fat and refined carb together make you fat. Who knew? That there is old fashioned common sense in 'walking off a meal', and having a pudding for...

OMG

Diets should be focused on not stopping people from eating but helping them make the right choices long term, and cutting out the ****. My daughter went on a shake diet, lost five stones, and then promptly put it all back on because she was avoiding real food not making active choices to eat...

If you want to support the LC diet to your HCP, this was updated in 2017, https://www.sign.ac.uk/assets/sign116.pdf 'Short term (six months) low carbohydrate diets containing as little as 50 g carbohydrate per day (13% of daily energy) 120or 110 g per day (33% of daily energy)119 appear safe in...

Cake culture. Good description.

Its true that most diabetics would not be refused surgery because they have a high blood sugar. Was he planned as a day case? They are usually put on a IV dextrose and saline when fasted and given sliding scale insulin via a IV pump and the dose adjusted on BS until after the surgery and they...

The big stumbling block is, evidence based. In the old days, any consultant could have a pet theory and his patients were treated that way, he could order equipment, tests and give drugs to patients without anyone questioning his(usually his) choices. There were huge variations in how you were...