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For years throughout my 20s to my 50s I was on a low fat diet to lose weight and "be heart healthy". I exercised a lot going to the gym most days after work. I hardly ever lost weight and during that time I suffered hypos regularly at least three or four times a week. I had no idea what was...

OLast August at a routine GP appointment I was told that I was heading for metabolic syndrome with a high waist measurement, overweight BMI 28, high blood pressure 160/85, high cholesterol 6.5 and higher than normal blood glucose which I found out later was not in the diabetic range (39). I was...

Hello I'm newly diagnosed with prediabetes which has been a shock but it has made me look at my diet carefully. I've gained such a lot of information on this forum which has been really helpful to me. Reading around here I found out about the Freshwell low carb programme and I've watched the...

Hello everyone I've just been diagnosed as prediabetic and given advice from my GP to follow a healthy diet based on a print out he gave me from Patient UK. The puzzling thing is the diet is heavy on starchy cards and low in far but further down in the article it says that high carb diets are...