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    Dry Skin

    Perfectil tablets from Boots, drinking plenty of water (hydrate from inside), shower not bath, Sanex shower gel, pat skin with towel don't rub, put body lotion of choice on when skin still damp, wear gloves in winter, sunscreen/block in summer and after sun, moisturiser every day.
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    Finger nails

    Perfectil tablets from Boots.
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    Fasting for a blood test

    Please check with your GP as my blood tests are never fasting ones unless cholesterol. I have checked with DNS and she agreed they only need to be fasting if cholesterol.
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    subsitutes for high carb foods

    Celeriac, celeriac, celeriac - anything you can do with a spud more or less including chips. Leafy green vegetables are lower in carbs than root vegetables. Suggest having a look at carb content on frozen veg packs
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    Sugar free biscuits

    If you quit eating the 75% carb biscuits, you wouldn't be so fat. I'm shocked by the complacency and one-won't-hurt mentality on this low carb forum. You shouldn't be eating any sugar and very little carbs - no cakes, biscuits, pastry, crisps, instant noodle stuff, pasta, potatoes, parsnips...
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    Motivation

    Motivation: Anger at having Diabetes although according to an NHS website questionnaire my risk was really low. Great GP who listens to me Personal trainer Toyboy
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    DE-Carb - probably too good to be true !

    Sorry no link. it was a short paragraph in a freebie London magazine
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    Lancet Less!!

    :shock: I am really shocked that people with long-term experience of diabetes are telling a newbie that it is OK to re-use lancets ! Do you not realise that dried blood residue on the lancets is contaminating your test ? Or that the dried blood residue is not sterile and you are introducing...
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    I hate my Diabetes

    I hate my Diabetes too and it peeves me no end, when HCPs give an answer like Hana's but ask me if I'm depressed because they get paid for that 'screening'. Hate it all you want, you really don't have to be stoic about it.
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    Ignorance /neglect about hypos

    It's not just hypos, years ago I suffered from panic attacks. Collapsed in my local high street and people just walked round me (I was a student). However, I think it's sensible to wear medical alert ID
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    DE-Carb - probably too good to be true !

    From Stylist magazine's 21-10-09 issue, it seemsthat DE-Carb,an all natural supplement, will be launched in the UK later this year.Supposedly it's clinically proven to remove up to 66% of carbs from meals by blocking them from being digested. :lol:
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    Shrinking Brains !

    Supposedly, Diabetes leaves us more vulnerable to Alzeimers anyway.
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    New product - Diabetes.co.uk Alert ID

    I used to live in Canada and was used to seeing Medic Alert cards in doctors surgeries and hospitals. I used www.medicalert.org to find the London office. Medic Alert is a registered charity. You choose which type of ID you want and what you want engraved on it. My bracelet was custom made to...
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    I am getting the Flu Jab tomorrow

    Been having the flu jab since 2007 never had a prob with it. Nor have my OAP parents.
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    View on low carbing.(part two)

    It's pretty much impossible to be vitamin deficient whilst eating meat. Meat contains more vitamins than anything. This includes citrus fruits. the reason that sailorss developed scurvey was not just that they had no fruit and vegetables, but that they ate mainly starchy "ships biscuits" with...
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    I'm not depressed - although I should be!

    helenb full report please ! captainlynne if we get angry maybe HCPs will learn something :roll:
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    Rhubarb Rhubarb!!

    I grow rhubarb (Timperley's Early) simply because I love the look of the leaves. I pull rhubarb every other week March-October and give it to my mother :D Just won't eat it without custard :(
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    A diabetic christmas.

    Last year we had a small boiled lobster each followed by pheasant. Generally don't start thinking about Christmas food until December. Have one of husband's home-made mince pies with Rodda clotted cream and a small slice of my mother's home-made Christmas pudding-only cake and pudding of the...
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    What percentage of diabetics achieve the guideline targets

    Just wanted to mention the ACCORD study in the US. Studied more than 10,000 ppl. Intensive insulin therapy for T2 was deemed to be Hb1Ac <6% and normal T2 insulin therapy 7 to 7.9%. Over the life of the study 203 of the T2 7 to 7.9% ppl died and 257 of the T2 < 6% ppl. Over 50% of the excess...
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    View on low carbing.(part two)

    What bothers me as a new member of this forum, is how divisive the Low Carb issue is here. Surely, it's common sense, to avoid highly processed, genetically modified,irradiated, chemical-laden foodstuffs if we can ? Organic may not be nutritionally superior,but it certainly doesn't have...