Search Results

Just another vote for the low carb diet - the first thing that has given me any hope. Yesterday at my first diabetic review since starting cutting out carbs only a couple of months ago Glimeperide was taken off my list of medications. My HbA1C had dropped from the high fifties to 45 and I had...

There's a lot about going low carb in the news. What exactly does this mean? Does it mean that the diabetes is actually reversed and you can go back to eating "normally" again or does it simply mean that the diabetes is still there but is controlled only by diet?

Hi, I've been off carbs for about a fortnight (and have lost weight as a side effect) but haven't been testing my blood very often - when I have it's been normal, around 5-6.2. (Type 2: Metformin, Glimeperide). This morning before breakfast I was shocked to find a reading of 7.6 - I'd...

Possibly a daft question here: I've just started following a low carb diet in an attempt to possibly reverse my type 2 diabetes. I have no problem staying off carbs. In April some friends are coming to stay for a week. I can't really insist on them following the same diet, nor do I wish to...