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Hello any low carbers out there. Asking for a member of my low carb group whether it is normal to feel ravenous after the first few weeks on low carb? She is still hungry although I've said she needs to eat plenty of protein at her meals then only snack if necessary. Anyone have solutions or...

I'm a PHC (Low Carb) Ambassador so got a free ticket to the Food Addiction day of this conference. It was great and all of the videos will be out on YouTube and Twitter soon. Google Public Health Collaboration In the meantime try the test (Yale Food Addiction Scale) to see if you are a food...

https://theglucoseneverlies.com/what-type-of-type-1-diabetes-do-you-have/ C peptide is a proxy for insulin levels and is often used to differentiate type 1 from type 2 but it seems there's different types of type 1s too. All about variability in c peptide levels dependent on age at diagnosis...

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/60016/figure/5 Interesting twitter thread led me here (via Gabor Endosi who's worth a follow on matters metabolic) re the differences between insulin you inject versus insulin you make yourself. Warning it involves mice but the interesting bit is the concept...

He has a new book out called METABOLICAL which I've just downloaded via Audible He was a paediatric endocrinologist who had a viral hit with his YouTube lecture on sugar. Now retired...

https://qcovid.org/patientinformation/patientinformation Created by Professor Kar (https://www.england.nhs.uk/author/dr-partha-kar/_ Professor Kar did the May 2020 report on diabetes and Covid and latest meta analysis from Exeter presented to the Diabetes UK regional volunteers this week...

Advice being trotted out by a registered UK dietician to a bunch of diabetics (mainly type 2) on a DuK Zoom meeting. Be careful about carb portions but still eat a meal based upon 'healthy wholegrains', red meat gives you cancer and minimise unhealthy saturated fat in case it leads to heart...

https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/article-of-the-week/covid-19-and-the-elephant-in-the-room/ Article by Asseem Malhotra re the risk of being metabolically unhealthy AND what yoou can do about it. Also discussed with Ivor Cummins on YouTube . Ivor is looking rather lovely and clean shaven...

I have taken a day off work to attend an event on the inauspicious date of riday 13th. It has just been cancelled beacuse the national Diabetes charity that was running it thinks it is too risky for us diabetics to travel to North London and be in a house together. It was going to be a fun day...

I enjoyed this because the interviewee does research but has clinical experience and clearly gets the emotional bandwidth taken up by type 1. I shared this with my husband who does not get why I don't want to test/adjust every single hour of my waking day..

Enjoyed the shipping forecast and Farming Today then silly story from Public Health bahviioural experts which I think they could have saved for tomorrow when they aren't allowed to discuss the election: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50711652 This perpetuates the idea that the only...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32519-X/fulltext This caught my ear on the news today but I cnnot access the full text in The Lancet. It follows a large cohort of Europeans and links higher non HDL cholesterol to higher rates of stroke or heart disease/heart...

Had this recommended via another site! Here is the trailer: (American)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_syndrome Did anyone see this BBC2 documentary. Interesting views on obesity from obese people living in a house. 3 of the 6? housemates have type 2 diabetes so this was a big topic in Episode 1

Very useful for those fighting for your right to drop carbs !

I am 48 and having input my 'data' (non smoker, diabetic t1, eat red meat, nuts, dairy but no lentils/beans or wholegrains) I have got a measly score of 64.3 Have sent this to my husband as it doesn't look as though we will have to save as much for our retirement as I had planned....:arghh...

Happy to report that Pret A Manger now offers me the chance to buy a sliver of almond butter with my coffee.:) No need to be tortured by the beauty parade of muffins as I queue!

https://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_19_06_17_en.html?infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=50306 EU funded research from the University of Ireland into beta cell capsules which last 5 years and replicate normal blood sugar management and...

Just wondered...2 stand out for me: 1 Sold a Personal Training package whilst at 3.1 at work today 2 Managed to exit the M25 junction 13 (unlucky for me) and get myself and car to petrol station without crashing. Possibly a better option than passing out on the hard shoulder. To be balanced...

He and Jen are in the Saturday Sun promoting the Low Carb programme with some good recipes and no 'healthy wholegrains' to be seen. Like the ideas of dippy eggs and halloumi sticks too!