To my mind, insulin lies at the heart of the problem. We know, for example, that all overweight people exhibit elevated insulin levels. Insulin is an anabolic, fat building hormone, as Lanie said....
Sounds like you're doing a great job there gallyndur! Diet looks good, numbers are great and Lanie is absolutely right, if you are avoiding all the starchy carbs, dietary fat will do you no harm at...
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Hi Jeannie, I hope things are well with you and yours! I'll try and drop in when I can and make sure you're all behaving /community/emoticons/smilewinkgrin.gif If you feel like a trip abroad, pop in...
Hi Lanie! Great to see you're still doing such a fine job helping other diabetics over there. You're quite right that the ADA, and over here DUK, are in no hurry to revise their dietary advice. A...
Hi again everyone, Some of you old hands might remember when I used to post on here regularly. I do try to look in every so often, but time is short I'm afraid. Hope you're all doing well. I hope you...
I think that would work perfectly fine, Tweety. Since Levemir is your basal insulin, it's job is to keep your blood sugars level between meals. It's not really that interested in what you have for...
Hi Pamela, It does sound to me as if you have quite a high level of insulin in your bloodstream. This would explain the 'urge' to eat sweet foods, to counteract the insulin with glucose. It might...
An uniquely Scottish contribution to world cuisine. Basically, bring us whatever you like and we'll find a way to deep fry it for you. fergusc...
....and in Scotland we enjoyed our Mars Bars 'au naturale' rather than deep fried. Ah the good old days. fergusc...
The phrase we use for dietary advice over here is 'diabetic cretinopathy'. All the best, fergusc...
That's fabulous Jeannie, I had no idea! Another escapee from the starchy carbohydrate death sentence that the ADA condemned you to. As for the snack food industry, the sooner they, and the drugs...
Hi Lanie, Always grateful for more references. Do you have a link to the TVEditor thing? Cheers m'dear! fergusc...
It's a battle, Lanie, it really is. There's a very strong consensus among the people who really matter, we diabetics, that low carb is the most rational, effective, beneficial and safe means of...
Hi Jeannie, I hope things are well with you too. I've been moderating a UK diabetes forum, flying the low carb flag of course, which is one reason I've been conspicuous by my absence here. Now I know...
Hi Lanie! Fire burn and cauldron bubble indeed! Add eye of frog and tongue of newt for a pleasing and very low carbohydrate broth I believe. Simply stir..... /community/emoticons/smilewinkgrin.gif...
It's been a wee while since I last posted here, but I hope you fine people are all doing well. Me, I've been incredibly busy with all sorts of stuff, diabetes and otherwise, but I always intended to...
Not too bad at all, Judy. I think lots of diabetics would give their eye teeth for such numbers. I think you're probably a little anxious that the numbers have risen and are now higher than those of...
Hi Beth, Well, you're very lucky to have found a sensible doctor! Cutting out the refined carbs is absolutely the right thing to do, but it's astonishing how many medical dudes seem not to realise...
And our livers, Lanie....
My only advice would be not to have them all at once in the same glass, ceebee. Sounds like it'll be quite a night round at your place though. Do you have any Scottish ancestry at all? Cheers, fergusc...
Oh yeah, wine is a great ally in the endless quest for normal blood sugars. It has an many effects on the liver (!) one of which is to inhibit gluconeogenesis (the production of blood sugars from raw...
I'm delighted for you ceebee. That's fantastic progress, you have done wonderfully well! 6.2 is such an improvement on your previous numbers. But don't let your team talk you out of aiming even...
Linwood, Be careful when your dietician dishes up their advice. They're usually wedded to the high carbohydrate / low fat hokum which will do you more harm than good. We'd love to hear what they tell...
Just a few quick points about the cholesterol issue: The majority of cholesterol in the blood is manufactured in the liver, not consumed in the diet (60-70%). Humans have a feedback mechanism which...
There is a growing consensus that the increased incidence of heart disease in diabetics is a result of raised blood sugars over a sustained period. Cholesterol is now increasingly seen as a very poor...
Hi Diane, Sandy has saved me valuable posting time by hitting the nail right on the head. An as-near-to-normal-as-possible blood sugar is the best long term health insurance policy going. The reason...
We love a new project here on this forum! Keep checking in and we'll have you doing better, eating better and feeling better in quick style. As Lanie said, try the low-carb lifestyle. It will benefit...
Jeez Jeannie, if that's sinning then we're all goin' to hell in a handcart! We, the disciples of low-carbism, absolve you. All the best, fergusc...
95 mg/dl (5.2 mmol/l) won't set the alarm bells off with your physician. It doesn't step over the lines that Lanie has described. So you're not diabetic , in other words. Not by the (arbitrary) lines...
The low-fat-heart-healthy school of thinking isn't just old-hat, it's probably pre-hat! I eat as much fat as I like, have done for years (other than trans fats, hydrogenated vegetable oils etc as...
Lanie is quite right about the cholesterol issue. In fact, the amount of cholesterol in the diet has a negligable effect on blood plasma cholesterol. The liver produces the great majority of...
Woody, I really don't know how these stories get started, and this is a new one for me. There's no doubt that drinking to excess can cause harm, particularly to the liver. And any Type 1's like me...
It's a thumbs up from me. A glass or two of red wine every evening keeps my blood glucose on an even keel throughout the night and into the following morning. My understanding is that there is little...
I think I'm a control freak. I do all the cooking round here because I can control all the ingredients and the portion sizes. It works for me. I've never weighed or measured my food though. Frankly...
Actually, there is growing evidence of links between a number of the developed worlds many medical conditions, hypertension included. At the moment I'm reading Gary Taubes book 'Good calories, bad...
It's truly wonderful that so many people are finding success with the low-carb thing. I mean it, it gives me a real thrill to know that others are improving their health, losing weight in style and...
Hi metres, Yes, there must always be some circulating insulin in my system, partly to counterract gluconeogenesis. I haven't produced a drop of my own insulin since I was 18! But the gluconeogenesis...
From a purely personal, Type 1 diabetic perspective, I have to say that the idea of bedtime snack makes no sense to me at all! The body doesn't experience hunger or metabolise food effectively while...
Oh Sandy, I'm so very sorry. Neither our parents age nor illness can prepare you for their loss. I know your mother would have been very proud of her daughter though. I wish you and your family peace...
Honey falls off the radar completely, that's where! Sandy, there are no easy answers are there? 3 of my 4 children were brought up as vegetarians because we were convinced it was the healthy, moral,...
You heard wrong, Lanie. We don't eat the cute ones - we need those so the tourists keep coming. We only eat the big fat ones, and even then only when we're all out of beagles. And I haven't been...
I think there are simply too many variables involved in blood sugar resposes for occasional tests to reveal anything meaningful. A simple glucose tolerance test would be far more informative wouldn't...
Hi Sandy, I'm a thick skinned haggis chasing Scot so my ears don't burn easily! I was once an evangelising vegetarian too, and my previous self would be extremely uncomfortable with the idea of...
Sandy, I think you summed up the inherent dangers of a vegetarian diet very well. It was certainly a problem for me finding sufficient good quality protein and simulataneously trying to limit the...
This thread is inspired by a previous one which wandered off track a little to talk about whether liver was something anyone would ever want to eat. I thought it deserved it's own thread, so here we...
This is fascinating stuff, Sandy. If nothing else, it highlights the dangers inherent in any scientific dogma - it matters little how eminent or worthy the expert, without an open mind capable of...
Yours is a really interesting story, Sandy. It's interesting that so many people are coming to similar conclusions about the dangers of carbohydrates and the efficacy of diets much lower in carbs and...
Always look on the bright side of life, I say. If you haven't been 'educated' by the doctors or dieticians traditionally assigned to care for diabetic patients and advise on appropriate diets, you're...
Jeannie, you just made a Scotsman blush. This isn't easily achieved, and often involves the exposure of body parts, lusty singing and the type of whiskey we don't export. And you thought I was the...