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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

Hope you have a better day today @gennepher
 
They couldn't really. You're right. I can't remember - are you vegetarian, like Neil, or can you eat meat, dairy and eggs? That would make life a bit easier, if a bit more expensive, if you could include fresh meat etc in your diet. Easier to cook from scratch with a full range of foods. There's something in our modern lifestyle that causes more and more people to develop auto-immune responses but I don't know exactly what it is. It's not just environmental because Neil was born with reactions to various foods, which others had no problem with (first one we knew was milk, which turns out to be not only lactose but also animal protein).

I wish there was some help I could offer.
 
The perspective in your art is always so precise and invites the viewer to enter the picture, especially once you add colour. Then it becomes very inviting. Especially ones like this with a deep vista.
 
No I am not vegetarian, but I have found there is rapeseed oil now in sausages, sliced meats, and it is mentioned on other meats. I even found rapeseed oil in some ready to eat prawns which had not been there the previous time I had bought it. I would need a butcher, or farm shop that they could guarantee what is in their animal products, or where they have been grazing...
 
I've taken to making my own sausages but I do buy bacon and occasionally ham. I suppose that some of the raw meat that I buy could have been fed on rapeseed or rapemeal (after the oil is produced). For me it isn't an issue but I can see that, if that were a possibility, that could be a problem for you. It looks as though rapemeal could be up to 20% of animal feed. Could that contaminate the meat, do you think? One thing for sure, it won't be in fresh sea fish. Will it? I probably shouldn't make such a positive statement.
 
Just found this website which has a report indicating that rapemeal is definitely used, and considered safe, in animal feed, even though it acknowledges that there is a (small) effect on the meat in cattle/milk. Probably on chicken and eggs too. It's going to be so hard for you.

https://www.adiveter.com/ftp_public/A4150208.pdf
 
Morning all from an area where the predominant colour is perfectly captured by the sun and its reflection in @gennepher's wonderful creative. Despite everything life, especially the food industry, is throwing at you that is so optimistic. @Annb respect to you also for your positivity in the face of bg control and pain issues. @dunelm thank you for sharing the latest development of that current piece of art and those handy tips on handling domestic chores. Booker Tea - superb. @alf_Josiah enjoy breakfast. Is it at Tiffany's? @Krystyna23040 yesterday sounds wonderful and enjoy the pub lunch. Today's theme here and in general seems to be very verse 3 of Ye Holy Angels bright. Recently I have been reading passages from Daniel and Revelation which can both be difficult. Yesterday's events and stories were rightly sombre. Pre-match at Marrayfield, the sight of Doddie Weir reminded me that even the strongest and fittest of us is subject to what seems almost impossible to bear. Very humbling. This morning I read this (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...operty-presenter-jonnie-irwin-terminal-cancer) which is heartbreaking. No wonder that in darkening, shortening days the ancients turned to a festival of light with carb-heavy, sweet food and alcohol. And yet, and yet. Advent is round the corner and tucked away in the Psalms is Ps 71 V 18 which seems a really good plan to me. Yesterday here was just so . . Very hard to expect you all to have a great day having read your posts but give it beans anyway.. (Such a pain hyperlinks are greyed out for me; @gennepher hope there is a youtube text generator)
 
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I imagine some/most meat has been fed from the rape plant one way or another.

It could contaminate the meat. Sometimes I feel very dull after eating some foods - maybe that is when I feel like that.

To get fresh sea caught fish, I need to find a fisherman who has a small trawler. There is one I have bought from, but it is a 20 mile drive from here...

There are no actual fishmongers near here, only the so called supermarket Morrisons fishmongers.
 
I had wondered @Annb about the effect on milk and maybe eggs. I had read on the Facebook site that it affects eggs. I already buy unpasteurised milk and cream from a local farmer with a beautiful herd of cows. I might need to ask him a question...

Have I got to go back to breeding quail again? I got eggs from them years ago. But what about Foxy Loxy, who has always visited even then. I had to literally create Fort Knox to keep my quail safe...
 
Thank you for the painting compliment @ianpspurs
And other good wishes.
Thanks, I got YouTube to give up its precious subtitles to me...
 
Apt, as always Ian. We have to just accept what is. No point, or kudos in riling against it (doesn't stop me complaining about the symptoms though). One of the things to be accepted is the onset of old age and its problems - not that I am very grey headed yet but at 77 coming on 25 it feels strange.

Edit: I remember those songs being sung - wouldn't have been from my Dad (great singing voice but rather more like Bing Crosby so I doubt those songs would have been his taste) so maybe they are comtemporary with me. No - they must be older maybe 20's or 30's - that's what they sound like.

So sad to read about Jonnie Irwin. He could probably do with a few prayers on his behalf as well.
 
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Thank you @ianpspurs and so sad for Jonnie Erwin and his family, something that I can relate to.
 
Hope y your blood sugars settle down very soon and that you start feeling a lot better @Annb
 
I strongly suspect that your fears of rapeseed and whatever else is present in your meat are, sadly, both correct and possibly underplayed. This isn't very promising https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/campaign-launched-for-mandatory-labelling-of-grass-fed-meat. Without seeming too tofu munching wokeratti those fantastic Brexit trade deals will almost certainly exacerbate the problem with meat and poultry fed goodness knows what before being processed here and labelled British.
 
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