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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RunSweet" data-source="post: 265267" data-attributes="member: 43465">Your results sound great and anyone who can stick to that low cal regime deserves congratulating!  I read a book that might interest you and I would recommend it for the coming phase of your experimentation - Patrick Holford Say No To Diabetes.  He recommends supplements as an alternative to metformin to boost insulin receptors more effectively and without side effects and other T2 medications plus a low GI dietand of course exercise.   The idea is to win the war against diabetes and not just tbe battle.  My dad is T2 (I am type 1) but is stuck in the rigid beleif that diabetes medication is sufficient and that he doesn't really need to lose the weight that probably helped produce his diabetes in the first place.   Patrick Holford also speculates as to why the Newcastle study worked (he reckons it is because it was so low cal it was by extension low GI though I guess that is not the case if people were using SlimFast shakes) and suggests that people may want to try alternate day dieting as this produced the same results in lab rats as the Newcastle approach.  Overall though his low GL diet and supplements advice seems more sustainable over the long term to keep diabetes at bay.  Good luck!</blockquote>

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