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Alternative being the operative word there. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/oct/30/butter-nonsense-the-rise-of-the-cholesterol-deniers

I'd trust your doctor more than some youtuber. There's a lot of online fear mongering about statins, but they are the number one most prescribed drug for a good reason. About LDL size, I believe the current consensus is that particle size does matter to some extent, but it's not that large ones...

Another thing you could check is your Cystatin C level, which can be a better basis for calculating your egfr, as it is not affected by muscle mass and exercise (or dietary creatine intake from supplements or eating lots of meat) like creatinine is...

I believe the forum expects that if someone mentions "published data" that the person mentioning it provides a reference to support it. Here's one publication on potential cons of a ketogenic diet on kidney health https://academic.oup.com/ckj/article/17/1/sfad274/7379589

Here's a study which found that a group consuming animal protein and a group consuming an equal amount of plant protein while resistance training showed no difference in muscle and strength gains: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-021-01434-9 I'd agree that getting your protein...

For some balance, here's the response from several of the UK's top nutrition experts to a similar piece by Arne Astrup (the author of the ACC paper you're quoting) where he repeats the same points...

I'm going to respond to some of the posts in this thread with questions. ianf0ster wrote above: "and the patients of Dr David Unwin) show that the vast majority of more typical T2D's who eat HCHF or Keto reduce their LDL" I was curious about this claim, so tried to find some supporting papers...

I doubt anyone would have an issue with saying that there is a strong medical consensus that smoking causes lung cancer, yet it's easy to find many cases of individuals who smoked heavily yet lived long healthy lives. Likewise, high intake of saturated fat from animal sources doesn't...

I fully expected some pushback, as I'm familiar with how prevalent these views are within this particular forum. I'll try and respond to some, but as you see, in a short space of time, we have 7 responses in support of these views, with a mix of personal 'anecdata' and links to multiple studies...

** Mod edit to say that this post (and 6 others in this thread) have been moved from a T2 thread on weight loss here https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/weight-loss.209977/#post-2774512 so as to keep that thread on track for the OPs question. ** The strong mainstream consensus among...

I must say, I find it very concerning how pervasive some fringe attitudes towards cholesterol are on this forum, with not just users, but multiple moderators promoting these views. High LDL cholesterol is well established as a cause of cardiovascular disease. This is uncontroversial and accepted...

I think there's some confusion about terminology here. I believe in the standard usage even white rice is technically classified as a complex carbohydrate because it consists of polysaccharides, in contrast with simple carbohydrates which are monosaccharides like glucose or disaccharides like...

I've heard of bodybuilders using Cream of Rice, which is technically a complex carb, but assuming it's like eating white rice, it wouldn't be very slow release compared to low sugar solid bread. You could maybe add in some form of soluble fibre to slow things down though. I think most shop...

I believe what you're seeing is the result of LibreLink's extrapolation algorithm, and it is one of my biggest irritations with the software. The sensor reads the glucose levels from the interstitial fluid under the surface of your skin, and changes in this lag behind the actual glucose value...

Please do tell! Abbott can't tell us off here! I had one the other day that LL told me to replace after showing the readings paused message for an hour, and I thought I might be able to get Juggluco to keep reading it, but no dice.

Oh that's a shame. I remembered being able to sometimes still get readings on one of xdrip/juggloco/glimp at times when Librelink was doing this, though that was back in the Libre1 days. Oh and the sensor I was complaining about yesterday stopped completely and switched to 'replace sensor'...

I've also started getting this new error message a lot since the latest update, and it's really annoying. I used to get the reading unavailable thing maybe once or twice during the lifetime of a sensor before, but now it's happening many times a day, like they've massively reduced the threshold...

I had a frozen shoulder about 4 years ago. It was sharply painful with some movements for a few weeks, then just restricted movement, which made sleeping in some positions awkward. I got a steroid+dilatation injection about a month after it froze, which gave significant improvement for a while...

A different sugar alcohol (erythritol) has been in the news recently over a new study that found it can damage brain blood vessels and increase risk of stroke: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250718035156.htm This makes me a bit more wary of sugar alcohols in general.

One other thing you need to watch out for is that they don't seem the best at updating their records for where they send the reminders. I'm T1, but still need to renew every 5 years to reassure them I've not suddenly stopped being diabetic (I guess the optimism is good!). I'm surprised they stop...