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Raspberries can save Type 2's!

berylc

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Tablets (oral)
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When people who know nothing about the LCHF diet tell me I'm killing myself being on it. I was killing myself not being on it!
According to an article I was reading on my daughter's iPad a glass of raspberries a day can help reverse Type 2 diabetes. I think it was in the Daily Express, but I can't find the page on my kindle. No idea if it is true or not, but the way my 1 yr old lab pup was stealing the rasps from the bush in the garden, she won't get T 2
 
If it was the Daily Express then Princess Diana must surely have been involved somehow.
 

Many years ago we used to keep horses..
The kids used to pick raspberries from the hedges in this field they were kept & Pebble, this one particular Welsh moutain pony would round up the kids against the hedge & literally "mug" them for what the collected in the Tupperware boxes..
Letting them go after he'd liberated them from the pickings..

There is a point to this.. Lol.

He went on to develop "laminitis.".. Laminitis is now starting to be regarded amongst Vets as a form of equine diabetes..?
 
badcat said:
God alone knows what the reference in the article to implanting sponges being good for diabetics is about! What?,where?,how? How many? Why?
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Just seen it at the bottom of the article
 
I think my ipad is trying to tell me something, it's just crashed three times whilst I was trying to read the D E junk, sorry, web page....
 
Rustytypin said:
I think my ipad is trying to tell me something, it's just crashed three times whilst I was trying to read the D E junk, sorry, web page....
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I had the same issue on iPad.. It played two different kinds of hell both in panaramic & portait mode....
 
I didn't know Apple has a bull sh*t filter!
 

I love the idea of the raspberry thief puppy....however, as for idea of raspberries reversing Type 2 diabetes and the Daily Express's credibility - I am currently blowing a raspberry myself. Sorry - had to.
 
What a yummy experiment that would be! A couple of cups of raspberries a day? (Which can be mixed berries too, including cherries the article seems to suggest?) But gee - that's a lot of rasp/berries. Can't be low-carb on that alas. But an enjoyable few days while one checked for BG-spikes at least?
 
Be careful of these 'miracle' cures, as they cause more grief than joy!
 
I can see how replacing a normal high GI breakfast, snack, or pudding with fresh (or frozen) raspberries (with or without double cream) can help. Raspberries are also high in fibre so good for a gut bags.

I expect it is a combination of what people are eating less of due to eating the raspberries and the fibre.
 
Well I had the very last raspberry off the bush this afternoon, depriving the pup of her last rasp of the summer! It was lovely
 
That was unexpected. We have a joke in my office - if you want facts then read the daily mail and if you want misguided medical advice then read the Daily Express - makes us all laugh everytime. (I'm a Daily mail reader!!!!! - too embarrassed to by a comic.

And now the unexpected bit - it turns out raspberries have a low GI, so if you are going to have two cups of fruit (I love american units of measurement - almost stoneage - their scientists must be so frustrated) after every meal, then rasberries might be better than oranges - and they fit in a cup better!

But the better way to lower the GI would be to have no fruit at all.

If the raspberries worked, it would be interesting to find out why they worked. It would also be interesting to see who paid for the research - I wonder if there is a national supplier/grower of raspberries or a consortium that put their heads together on this one.

Having said that, I do still have the occasional raspberry. Afterall, I'm only human - it says so in the Daily Mail, along with my age, address and house value
 
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