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David Kessler has lodged a petition with the US Government on greatly reducing the amount of carbohydrate in the standard American diet. It is really well worth a read in itself, but is also a clear sign that attitudes are changing to carbohydrate, and the carb-heavy dietary recommendations that...

NICE has today published its revised draft T2 guidelines for consultation. You may have read about this already - most of the media seems to be obsessed with "weight-loss jabs". If you want to read the document itself, you can find it here...

This is an extensively rewritten version of Dr Cavan's 2014 book "Reverse your diabetes - the step by step plan to take control of type 2 diabetes". I don't mean to imply it's just been updated - it has, in most places, but there are several significant alterations. The original book was...

As it happened I had my check-up this week. It all went fine, BP 125/80, thank you very much, weight stable, nothing to be seen here. It comes to the HbA1c. Now, my practice has its own testing machine. I've never actually seen it, and for all I know the DN goes off out of the room for ten...

I tried these and would recommend. 35g pack, product of Austria. Apologies for shaky photo. Contains pork, salt, dextrose, spices, maltodextrin, sugar, tomato powder, sodium nitrite. However less than 0.5% carb, so mainly pork and there are only tiny amounts of additives. Tastes of something...

The Mail on Sunday has admitted that its allegations against Harcombe and Kendrick were untrue and has apologised, as well as paying all costs and substantial damages. It's a complete collapse. You might remember that the MoS accused both of being "statin deniers" and "having blood on their...

I bought this last week - expecting "just another Gary Taubes diabetes book". Wrong. It's a fascinating history of diabetes and the medical profession's reaction to it since the disease became prevalent in the 19th century, right up to the present (2022). In particular, GT goes to some lengths...

The Lancashire bakery Greenhalgh's has recently started doing a number of low-carb bread items. Here's one: https://www.greenhalghs.com/bread/speciality-bread/low-carb-tinned-sliced-loaf-400g/ I'm planning on picking some samples up in the next few days (and will report) but I wondered if...

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I'm not sure that I've seen a link to this January 2023 Unwin paper on the forums. It takes forward the work reported in earlier publications, and is a description of a "practical primary-care based method to achieve remission in T2D"...

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Elsewhere I belong to a couple of "historic cookery" groups and this appeared the other day. Not made it yet but it a) looks good and b) seems very low carb.

This caught me out at the weekend. I used to buy something of the same name from Aldi, and it was zero sugar, zero carb. Hadn't bought it for a while, and picked this up in Aldi on Friday which looked like the same stuff in a rebranded can. It has however 6g carb per can. One can would be about...

I was reading through a Pears Encyclopaedia from 1975 last night and I found some advice which I thought people here might be interested in. We didn't really have anything other than local seasonal fruit, with the possible exception of (expensive) bananas and (sometimes) oranges: although I...

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Our aim is to maintain a supportive and respectful community where members can freely share their thoughts and ideas without any unwanted distractions. Members should be confident that recommendations from other forum members are not motivated by the possibility of, for example, financial or...

Dear all, In recent weeks we have seen a number of posts which appear to have been generated by machine intelligence - "chatbots". These posts are created by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) program through a synthesis of material generally available on the internet. The content is therefore...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ab5fec10-902d-11ed-b04f-b9bf191ef388?shareToken=264716a8955d6301db6a5304a264f402&fbclid=IwAR1PZpmqegX70U6NXYhu-lJd-yVnOYXV9LtywbWYyXoDDpW2ZN5YeMKg_aA By Dr Mark Porter. Worth a read - very pro-low-carb. Title is misleading, as usual. Unfortunately behind a...

I saw this advertised and gave it a try. I have been a bit skeptical about low-carb/zero carb beers in the past, as almost all (Marston's Resolution is the only half decent one) taste so bad that they're not worth it. However, Salute is an exception. They do two beers, a lager (4.8%) and an...

Anyone else play? I've just discovered this and I'm nearly a month in, played twice a week since Christmas. It is aimed at 50+ and for all ages and types, no particular level of skill needed which is great for me.