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Gabrielle_Tai said:
Already on the way.My doctor is getting me a Dexcom G4 and omnipod but thanks to Christmas the arrived date is expected to be after new year. The running cost will bit higher than mdi(cons) but the advantage of better management (pro) in a long run.
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Good for you!
 
My most hated phrase is "If I can do it anybody can". As well as being insulin controlled T2D I am also paralysed from the hips down and mostly use a wheelchair outside the house, so when people talk about exercise that anyone can do such as using stairs instead of lift, or walking to the local shops instead of driving I wonder if the speaker assumes there is no such thing as a disabled person. Recently I read an article in a health magazine that said anyone can hula hoop. So how do you hula hoop if you cannot stand unsupported?
 
Yes, I've seen lots of 'beginners' fitness books that start from a level of fitness that most people can only dream of. However, on a positive note:-

Hula-hooping in a wheelchair (starts about 45 seconds in):- Other ideas for seated hula-hooping:-
Juggling is another possibility (although when you are learning, one of those 'grabbers' is a good idea as there is often more dropping than juggling!):-
Seated dancing:-
These are all sufficiently hard work to have all the usual health benefits of exercise and, what's more, they're quite fun.
 

I just wonder why you would expect them to mention diabetes or alternatives to sugar in their cooking they cook what the majority can eat and we are the minority not a special group to be considered . I am a person who just happens to have diabetes which does not entitle me to special treatment or food or makes me a different person to who I was before. I rarely mention it to anyone outside of this forum not even to my own family it's not something I want to talk about. Don't get me wrong it is not because I am ashamed of having diabetes as some seem to be I'm not there are just more interesting things to talk about. I know of some people who talk of nothing else but their aliments to anyone who will listen and I will not become one of them
I do not expect cooking programmes to mention sugar alternatives or have special cooking programmes for diabetics or restaurants to offer low carb meals as some people on here in the past have said they should Where would that end anyone who eats any differently to most people would expect to be catered for. Chefs would be going round in circles trying to do meals to suit every taste and diet.
 
Since this appears to be the place to get things off one's chest...

Just the other day, when driving around with my sister in the passenger seat, I told her about the first 'Newcastle experiment' and the findings that within just a week, a calorie-restricted diet reduced the participants' fasting blood glucose to the level of non-diabetic people.

She said, "Well of course. It's common sense."

If I were to try to explain the colour of my face ever since, the amount of a saliva that is now inside my windscreen, the numerous casualties I caused on the road, and the various ways I've attempted to express my rage at her, it would take more than one forum.

So it didn't take two months, it took a few days. And it wasn't just a reduction, it was reduction to practically normal levels. All of this was obvious.

Everything is obvious once revealed, I suppose.

I said to her that perhaps I should get in touch with Roy Taylor and tell him that my sister said that this particular finding was obvious, and he didn't need to test for it.
 
My point is that if gourmet chefs tried using alternative to sugar. Reduce the amount of sugar they would produce healthier food not just for Diabetics but for everyone. Gourmet chefs should be able to make it taste good as well, I think the SUGAR ISSUE is not just about Diabetes but about health in general if you buy for example a tin of custard it has to tell you the amount of sugar used if you go out for a meal why not show approx. amount on menu then we could vote with our choices
N.B. To apply to everything on menu and all ingredient's
 

Yes we all know those as someone said here a little while ago" the born again low carbers"
 
Two people have really annoyed me this Christmas. My son-in-law and my best friend - on separate occasions they each said the same thing. That I am no longer diabetic so what I eat no longer matters. I am still diabetic. I only have non-diabetic levels because of what I eat (and don't eat). If I eat the things they suggested my levels would go into orbit. But ..... so would theirs, they said. They couldn't grasp that theirs would come down almost immediately. Mine wouldn't.
 
As someone has already said many recipes would not work without real sugar as alternatives are totally different so do you think the chefs should have to stop making those that need real sugar. We all have a choice diabetics and non diabetics alike no one is forced to eat sugar stuff if they don't want to
 
Exactly why I do not talk about my diabetes I do not want advice from non diabetics on what they think diabetes is about and what I should eat
 

If people keep eating sugar (and all other carbohydrates) at the rate they are doing then the rate of T2 will only keep rising. It is already being called a pandemic.
 
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