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Fresh Spinach, cooked rather than raw; lightly boiled and buttered Kail; Lavabread with the breakfast bacon/eggs/black pudding or whatever; Edoes, Okra gently cooked in a stock of some sort. Metformin seems to love the stuff.

Been there with the leg pains. Bump in a crowded Paris Metro left me with a trapped nerve in my lower back. That manifested itself as leg pains within a couple of days although there was no adverse effect on my back. Took forever to go away but was advised to do without painkillers if I...

"Repulsive stuff. It's like eating a dead slug." Do they taste different from live ones? In any event if you treat them is the same manner as the Frogs deal with snails they have a lot going for them. Or so the Romans thought.

"Repulsive stuff. It's like eating a dead slug." Do they taste different from live ones? In any event if you treat them is the same manner as the Frogs deal with snails they have a lot going for them. Or so the Romans thought.

Think?????????? Many subsist for a year on what we might not last on for a few weeks at most. Most have no NHS or similar service. For a great many in Africa, diabetes is a death sentence, quickly executed.

"Why can't they get insulin then?" having spent some time in west Africa I find that remark offensive. Let them eat cake??

That does not excuse the inane comment!

y sugarless sue on Today, 9:13 pm Why can't they get insulin then? Can't find the Pharmacy because of the density of palm trees. In many, if not most, sub Saharan African countries diabetes for the vast majority of the population will be a death sentence which is very quickly executed. What...

You've not got to wonder at all. My doc did not prescribe Ramipril or Aspirin or Simvador (a statin) because my blood pressure has always been OK (Ramipril is an ACE inhibitor and Aspirin - both used to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes) and my cholesterol (the statin) was below 4...

Get real. The last thing that most diabetics would want is a fashion accessory that monitors blood glucose. If you want to design something that is unobtrusive it will probably need to be something that diabetics can stick up a dark orifice.

Get an Aviva Accu Chek meter and the finger pricking device. You can set the depth of penetration and after a few stabs, starting at the shallowest find what suits you. You don't see any needles and you don't feel a thing. I hate accidentally pricking my finger on anything. I have no problems...

What is the point in the 'survey'?

There appears to be a recent Vista driver update: http://esupport.epson-europe.com/Produc ... U003D&tc=6 Might be worth trying if you have not already done so. Have you thought of dual booting your machine by adding XP to an alternative partition? This would allow you to run XP. Vista has...

Probably depends on the amount of goose fat you use to roast them! I tend to roast root veg in goose fat with parmesan cheese and my chol is just above 3.

2 above Get the blood glucose and Hba1c down and the sun will rise again. Either that ask for the blue pills Thrush, not the bird - unless she has it - so go to the Chemist and get the off-the-shelf treatment. Avoid birds until it stops itching otherwise its pass the parcel ..

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Stick it on a griddle with a little butter and let it wilt. Soften some blue cheese to accompany or sprinkle with shaved Parmesan. Add a poached egg and some crispy smoked streaky bacon. Chop it finely and mix it through eggs scrambled with butter. Goes well with a little smoked salmon...

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Don't bother counting steps just walk. I did 7 miles today with a Lab, much of it off-road. Me 63.