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  1. Mbaker

    I want to start some exercise very soon :)

    Walking is both accessible and has the added bonus that if you do this after meals you'll lower the insulin required to clear glucose and have lower overall glucose rises, win win. As you heal resistance exercise can be incorporated.
  2. Mbaker

    Any Endurance athletes on here ? I looking for advice.

    I have focused on resistance training, as muscle is a glucose sync. Like many things in the management of Type 2, there are differing views. Below is the last 2 months of random glucose, my bench press and deadlift. Whichever modality, I would find my comfortable max then train most weeks...
  3. Mbaker

    Prediabeties and fruit

    Many have found blueberries, strawberries, raspberries & blackberries work well, I do 80 - 100 grams most days of these. I have found that apples for example increased my postprandial numbers by 0.7 mmol. Bananas I would suggest are a disaster zone for most people, even non-diabetics rise to...
  4. Mbaker

    High blood pressure anyone?

    I get four pack beetroot from either Waitrose or Morrisons. I use half with a meal. I do not do garlic so much now, due to the smell and having good numbers, but "we" cook with garlic often. I did notice I am sensitive to coffee, including decaf. I like natural remedies, if this is for you...
  5. Mbaker

    Gyles Brandreth's Poem about Low Carb. 30 seconds

    I asked him if I could post his video. I think this is great as a fun elevator pitch for what to expect and how to do it.
  6. Mbaker

    Type 2 Diabetes and cholesterol

    Up front I will say that I do not believe a Vegan diet is nutritionally optimal. Some have stated the mastering diabetes method "works", which is a world food plant based diet , with fasting and exercise. When pictures have been posted on this site of the meals, they are of the size that is...
  7. Mbaker

    Guidance please on latest Lipid Results

    I have an eye condition (mild bilateral corneal arcus) that requires cholesterol to be lowered if I want to reverse it. Here's a summary of what I have done using oats: At 50 grams of oats, my A1c has increased by 2 points, so I have halved this and will be testing again in a few months. In...
  8. Mbaker

    Aldi Protein Pudding

    That looks like it would taste nice. I would not eat it as for me it is not clean enough "flavourings" I recall from a documentary can be anything, and there are ingredients ending in ose (sugar), let alone starch. Like others I make my own treats. The below is 99% dark chocolate (the whole...
  9. Mbaker

    Very Unwelcome News

    This thread is the only one to bring tears to my eyes. I had the privilege of meeting GG at the All Party Parliamentary Group for Diabetes in London a few years back. She was one of those people you couldn't fault and leaves a whole too big to fill, she just had a way about her. I recall...
  10. Mbaker

    Keto

    50 grams of porridge likely will raise your blood glucose by circa 3-4 mmol/L, if you are not doing any preparation with this and reducing the potential spike; I know this as I have been doing an experiment for around 4-5 months which I will share later today. 50 grams equates to circa 7...
  11. Mbaker

    Is vitamin B12 really necessary

    If you get remission of Type 2 consider removing the drug. Your liver if working correctly will do the job by itself.
  12. Mbaker

    This is rather interesting...

    And you believe the number. All of this is the context of the nonsense around staying out of the sun, splashing on sun screen and taking a pill. I would prefer adequate natural dosing of sun exposure, focusing on foods with vitamin d and topping up as needed. Metastudies drive me nuts, as...
  13. Mbaker

    This is rather interesting...

    My point stands, the average Josephine or Jo takes for example the WHO / IARC claim that eating 50 grams of bacon will increase the risk of colon cancer by 18% to mean a real 18 more cases per 100 - simply put that is a lie, there is no other word for it. Additionally one has to accept the...
  14. Mbaker

    This is rather interesting...

    Relative risk should be banned, as it is the smoke and mirrors used to exaggerate usually tortured confounded data. If I earn £100.00 and someone says you are going to get a 10% pay increase, I expected my pay to be £110.00 (absolute amount), the relative 10% might be £101.00. This nonsense...
  15. Mbaker

    Some more good news...

    Well, done. Perhaps you could say what you typically eat to inspire and inform others.
  16. Mbaker

    Fructosamine test

    I get this done at Medichecks as I have had discordance with my A1c's on Assays geared towards Caucasians. Below is what Medichecks says about it In my case it did show I was improving my results when the HbA1c was not showing progress I could see with glucose monitors and CGM's.
  17. Mbaker

    Type 2 Newbie stress & diabetes?

    Stress definitely can raise blood sugars, but the "normal" mechanisms within the body may be able to cope with physiological amounts as insulin is a potent response for removing blood glucose. The most popular method of reducing blood glucose and the HbA1c on this site by a significant margin...
  18. Mbaker

    New cooking oil coming to the market

    Hopefully many will do a hatchet job on this, the 100 year population experiment with vegetables oils doesn;t look great. At least I can feel sure it won't be coming to Manningtree (proper food) market.
  19. Mbaker

    Milk

    I would not personally drink that much milk especially homogenised, a glass is probably enough (not a science based guess). I am in the camp of once you have grown, there is little reason for too much of an item which is great at growning things. Recently I have been having some Kefir, mixed...
  20. Mbaker

    Dr Tim Spector

    Carnivore is also in his firing line.....but then he effectively says yo add plants to carnivore. Isn't that called a Ketogenic diet, which he says doesn't work