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Today I had a bag of pork scratchings. I'm a bit overweight, and as I was tucking in reading the nutritional information I was dismayed to discover the horrifying number of calories each bag contains... though admittedly not dismayed enough to stop eating them. I've splashed out for a month's...

I was diagnosed as type 2 a little while ago, and have been taking my BGL to keep an eye on what is happening. Eating a low carb diet (almost carb-free) my BGL is between 5.7 and 7.4 almost all the time, averaging out at 6.3. Two hours after eating and my BGL is normally about 1.0 higher than...

Hello. I've been diagnosed as Type 2 diabetic, and I got hold of a BGL finger prick test kit three days ago. Please can someone explain how my type 2 BG levels will likely differ from a non-diabetic. Is it that mine will rocket after a doughnut and not come down for ages, or do 'normal'...

Hello. I've just been diagnosed as type 2, and have been reading everything I can find. I have a pretty good grasp of how my blood glucose gets high, but I'm a bit confused about hypos. When I get hypo, I feel the shakes and the weakness and kinda anxiety-type symptoms, but I always just...