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    Recently diagnosed with prediabetes

    I forgot to mention have you had your eyesight tested as you might only be getting cataracts, your symptoms sound as it could be?
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    Recently diagnosed with prediabetes

    I am no expert but if you are only pre diabetic I do not understand why you are checking your blood sugars after every meal? I was diagnosed some years years ago as being pre diabetic and did not think too much about it. What concerned me more was each year I had my well man checks I was putting...
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    Fasting for Autophagy

    I fast for 24 hours every week so autophagy can set in, my nutritionist who put me onto it said I could drink black tea or black coffee and also suggested keeping a jug of water in the fridge filled to the brim with cucumber slices in. I drank the latter in the summer and as I don't like black...
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    Type 2 How do you thicken stews please?

    I am on low carb high fat diet and have lost 20kg in 4 months. I use a slow cooker and make lots of stews. To thicken I use unsalted butter which I heat in the microwave and then add small amounts of either plain or self raising flour until it forms a paste which I then add to the stew. This has...
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    Omeprazole capsules

    I have been on Omeprazole 30 mg daily since 2002 due to drugs I had to take after major spinal surgery. If I come off it or reduce to 15 mg daily I get acid indigestion, burnt oesophagus etc.
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    Best replacement for sugar in tea / coffee ?

    I have a very sweet tooth. My nutritionist suggested granulated pure erythritol which is about 70% the strength spoon for spoon as sugar. Made from waste products from fermentation although a carbohydrate it is one that passes straight through your body as our bodies have no means of dealing...