Search Results

REALLY, REALLY, REALLY think about blocked arteries! I just had a coronary angioplasty this week for a blocked artery and it wasn't much fun. Caused by 25 years of smoking. I spoke to the consultant and he told me that of the 70,000 angioplasties they do each year, the vast majority of them are...

I used Swedish Snus to quit smoking completely, 6 months ago and never looked back. I'd previously tried all the other approaches without success. The Snus is basically a little teabag type thing full of moist tobacco that you pop under your upper lip and it just releases flavour and nicotine...

Fair point. Although - nobody was even really interested in diet as even a helping hand....just fully reliant on meds. It was the attitude of just continuing to eat food that is at best unhealthy and at worst an active poison to your system that surprised me...

Well that's somewhat of an oxymoron. Mind you, I don't advocate that anybody eats more salt than is already in their food. I guess that all depends on your diet. And 6g of salt is quite a lot. I doubt I use more than a gramme a day as a food additive. Probably less - and I never cook with...

Salt is not all bad though.....your typical bleached and processed Saxa type table salt is almost poison though - and tastes like c**p though. However - good sea salt adds a huge depth of flavour and may trace minerals too if used SPARINGLY - but the good thing about it is that sparingly is...

Thanks! Well.....the latest part of my experience is that I've just spent three days in hospital for a suspected heart attack on Monday. Got released today with a boatload of drugs (including Amlodipine, Perindopril, Aspirin, Simvastatin, Atenolol and Plavix), but have to go in again on Tuesday...

Thanks for that.....I hadn't filled my prescription from yesterday, and I had my first appointment with the diabetic nurse this morning - so I asked her about free prescriptions and she confirmed it! :D I went to the phamacists, and they filled my 2 prescriptions free of charge! They said that...

Now for some good news.... I saw my GP today, and he was quite blown away by the charts I showed him on the laptop of my BG levels before and after food over the last two weeks, plus the accompanying data as to what food I had eaten and when. It was quite clear that certain foods were spiking...

Sorry for the slow reply on this, I've been off on a business trip. Well.....what I've found is that there's really very little variation between the different fruits i have tried. I have not tried pineapple or bananas yet though. I've been mainly trying berries (raspberry, strawberry...

My experience over the last couple of weeks (since i was diagnosed as T2), testing before and 2 hours after after has been that red wine gives me no increase at all in BG, white wine gives a little, whisky & soda gives none, and a pint of good beer (brewed by me) gives a rise of about 1 point...

:D I had a curry last week and the results of the tests were pretty good. Now after a week where my morning fasting BG has dropped from 9 to 6.1, I will have one tomorrow as well and see whether the post meal testing has dropped accordingly too....

Makes sense.....I'll keep going at it then..... **** those carbs - hidden or otherwise.

Well, I've now had the first week of knowing I'm a T2 diabetic, testing before and after meals and also going on a low carb diet.... So here's my results and progress so far: Ooops - looks like the forum isn't configured to accept wide images and the last few days have been cut off. Oh...

Oops. I meant "Good" fructose.... I always thought that fructose wasn't such a "bad" sugar to put into your body?

I'm thinking about doing just that starting tomorrow morning. I have started to monitor and test for my snus use, and it appears to me that nicotine actually increases BG levels. I just tested my BG 1 hour after a roast dinner (no carbs) at 7.4 then had a portion of snus, and an hour later...

Well......yes! It's easy to get out of control when there's hundreds of litres of superb beers in the house though :evil: I'm now resigned to almost NO beer at all for a while, then a gradual re-introduction while I monitor the effects. If I can get back to a pint or two a day, in...

Excellent! Many thanks for the recipe - I'll definitely give it a go tomorrow. Is Philly usable for the cream cheese, or should it be proper Mascarpone/Ricotta type?

Well....I'm going to continue with the fruit salad tomorrow, but just have a smaller bowl with some natural sugar free yoghurt and see how that goes. I think the grapes, kiwi and melon in the fruit salad may be the main cultprits, but it's made now and I'm still going to eat it! :twisted: I'll...

I'm working out what's my best breakfast food, so today I made up a great big bowl of fruit salad... Apple, Melon, Plum, Passion Fruit, Strawberries, Raspberries, Orange, Pink Grapefruit. Yummy. I had a big bowl of it for breakfast and it was great. My pre meal BG level was 8.0. 2 hours later...

I'm a brewer myself and have just been diagnosed with Type 2, so the effects of beer on my BG levels have been very much on my mind of late. Right now, I'm on a pretty strict low carb diet to try and get things under control. Normally, I'd drink 4-6 pints of beer a night, but this week I've had...