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Hi Willow,

Just to say I agree with other comments as to why you are still on Metformin. I had a HbA1C of 16 on diagnosis and have recently got it down to 4.9.

My diabetic nurse said she had never seen a result that low and took me off Metformin completely (was on 4 a day). I did mention to her that I was feeling lightheaded every so often but that I didn't think that Metformin was supposed to give you hypos so this may have been the deciding factor.

Hiya

Just picked up the thread about foods and meat.

I'm a butcher with a little shop in Cambridge, we try to only stock free range and locally produced meats. We buy nothing from the "big boys"
Of course the problem is that meats that are ethically raised and therefore healthier for us mere mortals cost quite a bit more to buy from the producers and therefore are more expensive in the shops.
I would always say if you want 'healthy' non-chemical produced meat go to your local independent butcher never use supermarkets or chains of butchers such as dewhursts, these all have central buying and the meat is not always ethically sourced.

K

akelarules said:

Hiya

Just picked up the thread about foods and meat.

I'm a butcher with a little shop in Cambridge, we try to only stock free range and locally produced meats. We buy nothing from the "big boys"
Of course the problem is that meats that are ethically raised and therefore healthier for us mere mortals cost quite a bit more to buy from the producers and therefore are more expensive in the shops.
I would always say if you want 'healthy' non-chemical produced meat go to your local independent butcher never use supermarkets or chains of butchers such as dewhursts, these all have central buying and the meat is not always ethically sourced.

K

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We actually have a choice of *two* butchers, plus various farm shops where you can find the origin of everything you buy. I thoroughly agree, their stuff is an order of magnitude tastier and undoubtedly more nutritious. It's not as much more expensive as it looks as it isn't artifically plumped up with injected water and chemicals either. Some of the supermarket chickens aren't that bad but although the butcher's free range version looks expensive by comparison it will provide three meals rather than just two as the meat doesn't shrink down in cooking.

People round these parts (Suffolk) are not only long lived but remain fit and active, I'm sure high quality food sources are partly to blame