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I have been eating a vegan diet plus fish for 4 years now, to help with arthritis. (successfully). I have become prediabetic during that time. I think this was because I was still a bit overweight and also began taking an antipsychotic, a statin and a steroid inhaler. I have now also switched to...

You seem to be confusing low GI with low carb. There are low GI foods which are quite high in carbs.

I am on a prediabetic course run by momenta. It consists of 6 weekly sessions, 6 fortnightly sessions and 6 monthly sessions. They test Hba1c 3 times during the course. They weigh us at every session and encourage us to lose 10% of our body weight. We have step counters and am to do 10000 steps...

I will try those Bluetit, thank you. I also don't eat meat, eggs or dairy produce, so I am hoping not to have to give up anything else. I am allergic to dairy produce, eggs give me eczema and meat was causing rheumatoid arthritis, which I no longer have since I stopped eating it. Are there any...

I used to be overweight, so followed a low fat, low sugar diet down to a BMI of 24, only to discover that I had become pre-diabetic. Therefore I am inclined to think that this theory is not the answer. I am on a training course for pre-diabetics at the moment. The MOMENTA instructor has just...

Well done and much sympathy for the lack of support from your doctor. I live in the north west and am pre-diabetic. I am just about to start a course, which has 18 sessions over 9 months, to try and put me right. I know we will be weighed and our hbA1c tested. The rest I think is advice. At...

I don't think any long term health conditions are understood. I would like to see health education in schools, to teach all children about conditions such as diabetes, dementia, autism and the other common conditions, so that society as a whole will start to have a better understanding of those...

Thanks everyone

I have had 2 blood tests to check my blood sugar, 6 months apart. The first reading was 74mmol and the second was 73mmol. I have been referred to go on a course to teach me to eat better. I have read a lot of posts on here which say that to test blood sugar you should test 2 hours after a meal...