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  1. J

    Carbohydrates

    I eat porridge most mornings with nuts berries dates and honey... I get a spike to around ten but within a couple of hours I'm back around the seven mark. I'm happy with that. I cannot go through life without spikes but the important bit for me is how quickly or otherwise that spike comes down...
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    Getting miffed with online adds

    Doc phoned said cholesterol levels now 5.8 so still a little work to do but she agrees no need for medication the way I'm headed.
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    Getting miffed with online adds

    I'm fortunate in loving ginger and other spices. Cloves too. I chew the heads of two in a morning and I have clove and ginger tea with a green tea bag thrown in in the evenings. Beware because cloves are also blood thinners but I find the two great for moderating my blood pressure and glucose...
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    Getting miffed with online adds

    Extra virgin olive oil. Ginger is such a powerful blood thinner you are advised to stop taking it 4 days before any surgery. Similar for cloves and the results for me are clear. Let food be thy medicine said Hypocrites around three thousand years ago and more recently an NHS doctor says plates...
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    Getting miffed with online adds

    Since when did you expect advertising to be honest? I stopped buying into that stuff a long way back. Saying that I'm having very good results eating raw ginger and chewing two cloves a day and not eating after 8pm. For breakfast I have a tablespoon of EVOO and nothing else not even a drink for...
  6. J

    Way OT: Hearing, ear wax and hearing aids

    I've done it so often now that I'm using just olive oil in the same way and no screws at all.
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    Way OT: Hearing, ear wax and hearing aids

    Ear drops ... https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=5%25+peroxide+ear+drops&crid=20E53LWHAC5G2&sprefix=5%25+peroxide+ear+drops%2Caps%2C98&ref=nb_sb_noss Soft gel ear screws... https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=soft+get+ear+screws&crid=V4FPQ9OFWBM2&sprefix=soft+get+ear+screws%2Caps%2C88&ref=nb_sb_noss
  8. J

    Which electric room heater is the least costly to run?

    I have an oil filled radiator that heats a small room 8 ft by 10. It is 750 watts you can get them at 500 but I've got 750 and it costs once it's up to heat around 8p an hour.
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    Done it! Got off the Metformin and reversed the daiabetes.

    Appointment with heart specialist today and he showed me this descending line on my HbA1c tests over the last two years. He asked how without medication I had gone from 71 to 51. I eat fairly normally spuds rice pasta but I drink evoo and I use acv I eat porridge daily I eat raw ginger chew...
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    Struggling to get tomatoes Tesco?

    ALDI have tinned cherry toms whole and quite sweet plus they keep for ages.
  11. J

    Terrible fall down stairs

    I used to pay good money to get like that and many still do! I seem to be having falls where I trip over my own feet and I'm like how does that happen surely they should just be synchronised like they have been most of my life but nope... old age can be difficult. I've learnt to stay aware of my...
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    Hep C and cirrhosis of the liver

    Always remember the information you are looking for should be on the insert that came with the medication. If you've lost the insert you'll find it online. Just type the name of the medicine into Google.
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    Hep C and cirrhosis of the liver

    If you can't get to see your doc go see the pharmacist.
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    Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

    I awake every morning below 7. Every night before bed I make a clove tea with slices of fresh ginger and a teaspoon of Extra virgin olive oil. I also chew on a clove about an hour before that. Be careful with the cloves though as they are that potent in reducing blood glucose they can send you...
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    Why?

    I have discovered chewing a couple of cloves throughout the day and having clove and ginger tea before bed brings my glucose levels right down. The stuff I've read about cloves comes with a warning about keeping your eye out for hypos it's that effective! Not the best chewing gum I ever had but...
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    No diabetes drugs no statins diet controlled. Other medications for other issues.

    No diabetes drugs no statins diet controlled. Other medications for other issues.
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    Lab Grown Meat now on sale in the USA

    I'm already a label reader because these big corporations don't mind feeding you poisons and unknowns. I've not noticed here but in America there are even health warnings on food! May cause cancer may cause birth defects. If a product in a can a box a packet has chemical names on which are alien...
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    Lab Grown Meat now on sale in the USA

    Man messing with nature again despite it always coming back to bite us on the bum! Is there a difference betyween wild salmon and farmed salmon? Dead right there is yet you'd think it would be a simple and safe way to get salmon. The complexities of factory made meat send shudders through me. It...
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    Salted/spiced/chilli nuts etc. - are they ever OK to eat?

    That's it I'm off to the fridge for a slice of cheese!