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My older brother died last Wednesday, of a heart attack at 71. He'd been on statins for many years and 4 x metformin for Type 2. He was in sheltered housing because of a very low IQ and I was asking his carer for more details. She said his blood sugar was always a little bit up after the...

My fasting reading when I get up is usually over 9, however following an average meal and before taking metformin it's only around 7. I'm taking 3 x 500 mg metformin a day on a low carb diet - aiming at not more than 60 grams a day. Even after eating a bowl of porridge my blood sugar is only...

When eating out, why is that you can find vegetarian dishes (usually high carbohydrate pastas, etc) but never low carb dishes ? Why is that when you ask for more vegetables instead of the potatoes, you get carrots, parsnips, turnips or any root vegetable - never GREEN vegetables ? Why is it...

I've been on a low carb, low GI diet for about seven years but I'm fairly generous with my portion sizes of meat, fish and eggs, and also with cream, butter and animal fats. I just read on here somewhere, but can't find it again, that proteins affect insulin ? I thought only carbohydrates...

Hi I was diagnosed Tye 2 after a trauma in 2003 and being put onto statins. I subsequently had a stroke shortly afterwards. Then in 2008 I was flown out to hospital with pulmonary oedema. Up to that time I'd been controlling my diabetes well, eating only natural foods and very very few carbs...