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  1. CatsFive

    Dr John Yudkin

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin
  2. CatsFive

    Saturated Fats & Heart Attacks

    Just wondering, will you know if it's done you any harm until harm happens? BTW I'm another person that eats butter, drinks full-fat milk, eats full-fat yoghurts and rather likes fatty cuts of meat...
  3. CatsFive

    Impressed!

    Blood taken for an HbA1c yesterday morning, and the results were there on MyDiabetesMyWay just now - 24 hours later. :) (pleased with the result as well)
  4. CatsFive

    A Munroist again :)

    I was talking to my GP in May 2022, and said I hoped I had another Munro in me - it was around 25 years since my previous one. I achieved that ambition on Tuesday 30th May, managing to get up & down Mayar in Glen Clova. Sadly Driesh would have been a hill too far, so will have to go back some...
  5. CatsFive

    Spiralizing

    I'm wondering about spiralizing as a way of making pasta substitutes - I came across the ideal of spiralized turnip recently! So I did a bit of research about spiralizers. I don't want to spend £££ on one, especially as it's new for me and I came across: OXO Good Grips hand-held spiralizer...
  6. CatsFive

    Spaghetti squash

    Is it possible to buy these in the UK? Plenty of places selling the seed, the gourd seems hard to come by/
  7. CatsFive

    Sort of newly diagnosed

    I was actually diagnosed a year ago - HbA1c of 56 - but it sent me into such a flat spin it was some months before I could bear to look here. At the time it felt full of rather macho 'I will beat it into submission' posts and I simply looked at them and closed the browser window. However I...
  8. CatsFive

    Cauliflower Rice

    Had this at a friend's recently and was very taken with it as an alternative to rice. However buying it is expensive. Any tips for making & cooking it? I have a food processor! If possible I think it would be sensible to make several portions at once and freeze any not going to be used on in...