I did get hypothermia a couple of years ago - and lost a few pounds as a result. Not something I would like to do again though.
And I guess modern living with central heating means we're burning fewer calories the lazy way.
You'll be wearing bearskin and hunting with a flint axe next! Just like me!This reminds me of one attempt to explain the global rise in T2 by linking it to global warming. Along these lines:
http://drc.bmj.com/content/5/1/e000317
It's easy to dismiss that kind of thinking as clutching at straws and just desperately trying to correlate one thing with another. But in some ways it strikes me as being not absurd.
There are a lot of examples of how small changes in temperature cause species to migrate or die off, some here...
https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climate-impacts/climate-impacts-ecosystems_.html
and of course it's not because individuals in a species suddenly start dying of heat stroke, it's that their bodies just don't work so well for one reason or another when the temperatures rise by even a little bit. And never mind global warming, most people in the Western world these days keep their homes heated well above the natural environmental temperature.
Anyway like I say it just strikes me as being not absurd. Clearly the changing food environment is top dog to be focusing on.
You'll be wearing bearskin and hunting with a flint axe next! Just like me!
Edit to add but in all seriousness I think that all these things can have a cumulative negative effect..
You'll be wearing bearskin and hunting with a flint axe next! Just like me!
I was diagnosed with DKA last year and the doctors suspected T1.
However after just 13 days of insulin therapy and by totally eliminating carb from my diet, I was taken off insulin and my pancreas somehow revived.
I was then put on a 300-400 calorie diet for 12 weeks which was worse than the Newcastle Diet.
Lost 3.5 stones and HBA1c fell from 85 to 38.
Wow. Congratulations on still being alive!
I presume you were kept in hospital and being regularly checked during the 12 weeks? What were they feeding you?
Wow. Congratulations on still being alive!
I presume you were kept in hospital and being regularly checked during the 12 weeks? What were they feeding you?
I was fed on x2 boiled eggs, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and a chicken soup for 3 months.
I nearly died but thank God I’m still alive and survived!
Could you clarify, please. You were actually an in patient for three months and were prescribed a diet that proved almost to kill you?
Were they monitoring your ketones while you were eating like this?No I followed the crash 300-400 calorie diet at home but I was being closely monitored by the Endo and GP.
I nearly died from DKA, not the diet.
No I followed the crash 300-400 calorie diet at home but I was being closely monitored by the Endo and GP.
I nearly died from DKA, not the diet.
I was fed on x2 boiled eggs, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and a chicken soup for 3 months.
I nearly died from DKA, not the diet.
That's my intake when I'm fasting...mostly in double cream.I just did a quick google. Recommended calories per day adult male ~ 2,500 to maintain weight. This would, obviously, be for a healthy, non Diabetic individual. A daily intake of 300-400 calories seems screamingly low to me but then I know nowt about the amount of calories in different foods.
That's my intake when I'm fasting...mostly in double cream.
No way.. I'd disappear!Aye, but even on an extended fast that calorie intake wouldn't be for three months straight would it? (300-400, I mean).
@NewTD2 Did you have a period of re-feeding afterwards? Did you stay healthy throughout? It seems a very long time to be on such a strict diet.
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