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Instead of porridge you can use ground almonds in a 'meusli' which doesn't need cooking. The usual ingredients to make about fourteen servings are: 500g. toasted soy bran (Holland and Barratt) 300g. ground almonds 150g chopped mixed nuts (Morrisons are good value) sunflower seeds, flaxseed...

But why buy? We use a yoghurt maker (from Lakeland - about £19 ) It's extremely simple to make. You just pour in a litre of full-cream UHT milk and a spoonful of starter yog, leave it overnight and it's ready to eat once it's cooled down. The quality is great, and the cost is about 45p a...

I'm basically a low carb dieter, but lately I'm on 2x 500 mets to get my BG levels down from high fives to low fives. I take them before breakfast and before an evening meal - when I remember! But can anyone tell me how long it takes metformin to act, and how long its effects last...

The vast importance of the Harvard study is that it directly contradicts the dietary nonsense we have been fed for thirty years. Of course they have had to make some caveats (on which the low fat brigade will doubtless pounce) but the essential fact is that they have completely undermined the...

I didn't catch whether you were using cooked or raw potatoes. or I think you have a really good idea and I'd like to give it a try. David Wilson

I would love to find any scientific support for the standard dietary advice for diabetics (phoenix's references in the main deal with general advice for non-diabetics - not the same thing!) I'm particularly interest in this strange lack of scientific support when we are more and more being...

Hi Hanadr- You mentioned that in Thames Valley the averageHB1Ac was about 7.5%. How did you get hold of that figure? Iv'e tried to get it via GPs but it's not something they seem to be aware of. Are there any national or internatioal figures available I'd value your help, because we're in...

Ming - I went throught the same thing a few years back but for me at least it was a passing phase. I've found a great low carb breakfast 'cereal', which gives you lots of fibre, is easy to make from 2 or 3 parts toasted soy bran to one part ground almonds, some crushed nuts and a smidgen of...

I did two three-month trials ,one with 500x2 Metformin, the next my usual low carb diet ( less than 50c p.d..) The HBA1c results; both 5.8%. I have since tested a standard low carb cereal breakfast (7g carb in 65g of food) with and without Met. over a week. The result was a mean of 0.3%...

This mouse study is just the latest in a series of very cheap, small-scale 'research' from US universities , addressed mainly to the media, which are simply part of the anti-Atkins campaign of the last four years (the last one was 'low carb will kill your memory' a few months back.) They all...