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Dear Giverny, I started the thread 'recent insulin study' in 'Diabetes Discussions' which you - innapropriately I feel - closed down today on the grounds that the forum was no place for "scaremongering... potentially dangerous information". Briefly overlooking the evident similarities with...

A few days ago, the email 'newsletter' from Diabetes.co.uk flagged a very recent study which showed that Type 2 Diabetics taking insulin had 3 x the mortality rate of Type 2s taking, for example, metformin. The authors also flagged the mechanisms bu which the higher mortality rates were induced...

Hi All, I commented about a vegan diet in a previous post and said I'ld post how I got on. Any comments only apply to me, of course, but so far the vegan diet is doing remarkably well for me I must say. I've been on a partial (still had occasional milk in coffee and odd slice of cheese)...

Hi, The diet survey diabetes co uk ran on this site was interesting, although only a relatively small group of people completed it. I wondered if anyone who is or has been on a raw or vegan diet had found that their blood sugars improved? I have been vegetarian for a long time, but recently...

Hi All, Does anyone else have issues with exercise increasing blood glucose levels? I understand the theory that the liver will convert fat to blood glucose, but I am not sure how on earth one 'controls' for this. By way of example, today my blood glucose started on about 16... (high but...

Hi, I am struggling to find any balance in my blood glucose/insulin. I take levemir (12 units) and novorapid (the latter 1 unit per 10g carbs). I eat a low carb vegetarian diet, exercise daily and weigh about 8 stone. My BGs are constantly spiking (20-35 not at all unusual in response to...

Hi, So.. if I eat carbs my BGs shoot up and/or I have to inject more insulin (which has adverse effects).... so i shouldn't eat carbs... if I eat fat it has adverse outcomes for weight, heart etc. so I shouldn't eat fat... if I eat too much protein it will have an adverse effect on kidney...

Hi, A slightly oblique one this, but does anyone know if Diabetes UK accepts external funding to support its work? If so, where does this funding come from? Thanks.