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    Spreadsheet for GI calculation

    I am attempting to calculate my personal GI of various food combinations - i.e. plotting BG changes after eating and calculating the area under the curve (AUC). Does anyone know of an Excel spreadsheet that will do this calculation? If not then I will write one, but before I go to that effort...
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    Flax-Z-Snax Hot Cereal

    When I was diagnosed I started off, on the advice of a diabetes nurse, regularly eating a high carb – mostly porridge – breakfast :x . I am now mostly having a cooked, very low carb, breakfast but I am also interested in quick alternatives – and the Flax-Z-Snax hot cereal from the...
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    Atkins Nutritional Breakfast Bars

    Since discovering them some years ago, I have always had a fondness for breakfast bars - compressed bars of fruit, cereal and nuts that make a great snack at any time of the day. Up until I was diagnosed with diabetes, I used to eat large numbers of these things but I haven’t touched them since...
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    Short-term insulin anyone?

    There has recently been quite a lot of publicity about some studies that suggest that treating newly diagnosed T2s with insulin for a few weeks might be able to drive the diabetes into remission - or at the very least help with its control. The theory is that this gives beta cells a chance to...
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    Timing of exercise

    Do you find that timing of exercise after eating is important? I am a newly diagnosed T2, and I have just started monitoring the last few days - so it is way too early to draw any conclusions yet. However, one thing that I have noticed is that exercising half an hour after eating seems to...
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    To test or not to test...

    Hi People, I am new here, and this is my first post. Indeed, I am very new to diabetes - I was diagnosed with Type II a week and a half ago, and I have yet to figure out how this is going to change my life. So far, I have had one 10 minute appointment with a GP and a half hour chat with a...