Great healthy low carb grub if ever I saw it !

2 large portobello mushrooms

2-3 tablespoons feta, crumbled

1 ripe tomato, finely chopped

1 small purple onion, finely chopped

1 tablespoon fresh oregano (or other herbs), finely chopped

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 tablespoon vinegar (any variety)

Freshly milled black pepper

Idea and photograph taken from the excellent Christopher James Clark blog full instructions and more great photographs here.

Eddie

No Bake low carb Grasshopper Pie

I'm a big fan of Carolyn and her "incoherent ramblings" (her words not mine). I'm also a big fan of cheesecake. So I just couldn't give this recipe a miss, and I couldn't help sharing it.....so try it for yourself.

The link to Carolyn's recipe and blog is here.

All the best Jan 

We knew how to reverse type two diabetes in 1917 when did it all go wrong?

Diabetes is now a run away train. It’s out of control, around the world hundreds of millions of people have joined the club, no one wants to join. The epidemics of type two diabetes and it’s often linked obesity are going to get far worse the experts tell us. Big pharma knows this, big pharma can hear the big cash register ringing. My opinion on big pharma and many of it’s drugs is well known. Many have proved to be useless and others banned for killing people. There was a time when no drugs were available for the control of diabetes, and many type two diabetics lived long and active lives. Many feel Dr. Atkins was the start of the lowcarb diet, but lowcarbing for improved health goes back to the days of William Banting.

The link below will take you to a free of charge read on line digitalized book, on the best diet for diabetics before big pharma loaded the dice, and diet and exercise kept people healthy and in control of their diabetes. I urge you to take a look. I have left the book open at pages 12 and 13, foods of great value and foods to avoid. Many will not be surprised to see, nothing has changed in almost a hundred years, in the best way to control diabetes. Diet and exercise and nil/minimal medication.

Check this link out, a fantastic read and well worth your time.

http://archive.org/stream/diabeticcookeryr00oppeiala#page/12/mode/2up

Diabetic Cookery Recipes And Menus by Rebecca W Oppenheimer printed 1917

Kind regards Eddie

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes

Word Crimes ! guilty as charged.

Graham

Eric Clapton & Friends - Call Me The Breeze

They call Eddie The Wind ! but lets not go there.

Graham

Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long

This guy is the number one for me, the undisputed Guv, the best soul singer that ever drew breath, sadly killed in his prime in a plane crash. In my day around the clubs this would often be the last track of the night, jokingly known as a 'bum toucher' Those were the days. When men were men and women were grateful, OK I'v got my coat. Eddie

Sam Smith - Stay With Me (Live) ft. Mary J. Blige

Saturday Night is Music Night on this Blog, and I'm starting it off with this duet. Sam Smith a young British Singer Song writer born in London in 1992 sings 'Stay With Me' with Mary J Blige. He won the BRIT critic choice award earlier this year; so as they say 'one to watch'. Mary J Blige started her career back in 1989 as a background singer on Uptown records, now of course a very successful artist she has nine Grammy awards and has sold in excess of 50 million albums. I hope you enjoy this.

All the best Jan

Don’t blame me blame Zoe Harcombe !

Last weekend I was exchanging a few emails back and forth with Zoe. I know what you're thinking, Zoe actually communicates with and old reprobate and renegade like you, yes she does, she’s one tough lady. Anyway Zoe asked me what my twitter address was, I replied good grief I have enough to do without joining another outfit.

Well, Zoe got me thinking, and as stated in a post below I joined up. I should have done it years ago, great information from many of the people I am following. I recommend it highly, so refreshing to be in a forum type situation surrounded by low carbers, laymen and medical professionals, all singing from the low carb hymn sheet.

I’ll give it a week or so and start injecting a bit of villainy into the joint, you know me, I intend to keep upsetting all the right people. BTW my old friend the ex resident diabetes.co.uk dietitian is on board, ‘what larks’ as my old friend Dillinger would say.

Have a great weekend folks.

This way to the fun factory https://twitter.com/lowcarbdiabetic

Eddie

Meanwhile the betus goes on !

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"  Upton Sinclair

Now you know why so many medical professionals and dietitians push starchy carbs with every meal to diabetics, aided and abetted by DUK, ADA etc. just what their big pharma pay masters want.

While the diet of slow death is pushed by the above, a lot of people are going to keep their jobs and the company cars. Barbara Young, Chief Executive of Diabetes UK pockets £100,000 per year for trotting out doom and gloom to the media once or twice a month. Money for old rope I reckon.

Meanwhile the betus goes on !

Eddie

DUK The diabetes charity.

Abbott Bayer Boehringer Ingelheim Bristol Myers Squibb Bupa Bunzl Everyclick First Capital Connect Flora pro.activ Kodak Lilly Lloyds Pharmacy Menarini Merck Serono Morphy Richards Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited Novartis Novo Nordisk Nursing Times PAL Technologies Ltd Pfizer Rowlands Pharmacies Sanofi-aventis SplendaTakeda Tesco Diets

HEART UK -The Nation’s Cholesterol Charity

Abbott Healthcare Alpro UK AstraZeneca BHR Pharma Cambridge Weight Plan Cereal Partners UK (Sh Wheat) Food & Drink Federation Fresenius Medical Care (UK) Limited Genzyme Therapeutics Hovis Kellogg’s (Optivita) Kowa Pharmaceutical Europe Co Limited L.IN.C Medical Systems Limited Merck Sharpe & Dhome PlanMyFood Pfizer Premier Foods Progenika Biopharma s.a. Roche Products Limited Unilever (Flora) Welch’s (Purple Grape Juice)

The British Nutrition Foundation

However, the organisation's 39 members, which contribute to its funding, include – beside the Government, the EU – Cadbury, Kellogg's, Northern Foods, McDonald's, PizzaExpress, the main supermarket chains except Tesco, and producer bodies such as the Potato Council. The chairman of its board of trustees, Paul Hebblethwaite, is also chairman of the Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate and Confectionery Trade Association.

The European Food Information Council

Current EUFIC members are: AB Sugar, Ajinomoto Sweeteners Europe, Bunge, Cargill, Cereal Partners, Coca-Cola, Danone, DSM Nutritional Products Europe Ltd., Ferrero, Kraft Foods, Mars, McDonald's, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Pfizer Animal Health, Südzucker, and Unilever.

The British Heart Foundation

Unilever Flora margarine.

Cooked Tomatoes Help Fight Bad Cholesterol (Just as Good as Statins)

Generally speaking, the less cooked a vegetable (or in this case, a berry), the better.

Raw is almost always preferable to cooked for retaining nutritional value.

When it comes to the tomato, however, the cholesterol-fighting antioxidant lycopene, is more readily absorbed by the body after the heating process.

Statins are a class of drug (e.g., Lipitor) that is prescribed to manage LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol. They work by blocking the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase—which is produced by the liver—thereby preventing the natural creation of this type of cholesterol. LDL has been labelled “bad” because it is known to contribute to heart disease.

The thing about this is: why would the body normally create something that will kill us, necessitating the creation of a manufactured chemical to prevent it? It’s all about balance.

A healthful lifestyle that includes eating organic fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and healthy fats and strictly limited (or no) processed foods combined with regular exercise and positive social interaction keeps everything working right—without pharmaceuticals.

Works Just As Well as Pharmaceutical Drugs

That being said, a new study shows that lycopene in tomatoes works as well (and since it is sourced from a whole food, better!) than statins in regulating LDL, resulting in lower risk of stroke.[1]

Other studies show lycopene reduces the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease,[2] inflammation, eye disease, and male infertility as well—clear arteries allow proper blood flow to all parts of the body.[3]

Lycopene is a carotenoid—the pigment that makes a food yellow, red, or orange—and can be found in other fruits and vegetables like watermelon, papaya, guava, and pink grapefruit.

The body doesn’t convert lycopene to vitamin A as it does with other carotenoids like beta-caroteine. While lycopene is recommended for everyone—and especially for people at risk for stroke and heart disease—a supplement isn’t the best source, says researcher and Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health Dr. Edward Giovannucci:

“Supplements may give you a purified form of lycopene, but you’re not sure you’re getting what you get from food. You may be getting the wrong form of lycopene in a supplement. There are also a lot of compounds in food that aren’t lycopene but that are similar, and some of those molecules may be part of what makes lycopene so beneficial.”

In addition to its effects on cholesterol, lycopene has qualities that protect your skin from ultraviolet rays from the sun.

Read More: http://dailyhealthpost.com/

Graham

Confetti Cucumber Salsa

INGREDIENTS
METHOD

1 large cucumber or 2 small cucumbers (about 1/2 pound to 3/4 pound total), seeded and finely diced (peel first if the cucumber is thick-skinned, leave peel on if thin-skinned)

1/4 cup finely diced red onion

1/4 cup finely diced red, orange, or yellow bell pepper

2 Tbsp chopped fresh mint

1 Tbsp rice wine vinegar

1 Tbsp olive oil

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon minced jalapeño (more to taste)

To make the salsa, place all of the salsa ingredients into a medium bowl, and gently stir to combine. Taste and add more jalapeño if you desire more heat.

Keeps for several days, covered and chilled in the refrigerator.

Perfect for serving with grilled chicken or seafood.

So many supermarkets and food stores have their own salad bars, where you can choose what ingredients you'd like to put in your container to take home ready prepared to serve. In my experience there is usually a good choice, and while handy, you do of course have to pay someone for preparing the lovely foods. If I'm in a rush I do use this facility but generally now find it so easy and a lot more economical to make up my own choice of different salads. The recipe above is very similar to one I regularly use, isn't the name great? I just call mine cucumber and pepper side salad! If you are watching the pennies, why not buy peppers in the basics range that many supermarkets offer. They are usually cheaper because the peppers are not the great shapes and identical sizes, they do not look perfect - this of course doesn't matter when you are cutting and dicing.

Enjoy your salad and thanks to Simply Recipes for the recipe found here.

All the best Jan

Great quotes !

“Recommending a high-carb diet to diabetics is a crime against humanity” Kris Gunnars

Link to Kris’s blog here. One of the best blogs out there I reckon.

Eddie

British public deserves time off from Tories for good behaviour.

NICE is pushing for millions more to be on statins in the UK, will they be recommending Coenzyme Q10 supplementation for statin users?

By Peter H. Langsjoen, MD  STATIN-INDUCED CARDIOMYOPATHY

Dr Langsjoen has a paper on the FDA website about statins reducing serum levels of CoQ10.

"The medical profession has, after more than 30 years of excellent propaganda, successfully created the wholly iatrogenic - "pseudo-disease" dubbed "hypercholesterolemia" and the associated malady "cholesterol neurosis". After decades of dismal failure to cure this "disease" of numbers with low fat diets and a host of cholesterol lowering drugs, the medical profession stumbled upon the magic bullet, the cure for this dreaded artificial disease - statins (HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors). First released on the US market in 1987, statins have rapidly grown into one of the most widely prescribed class of drugs in history. Statins do three things:

1. They block the body's ability to make cholesterol, thus lowering the blood level of cholesterol, thereby curing cholesterol neurosis. Doctors and patients equally neurotic have immediate gratification. The "evil" high cholesterol has been dramatically lowered and the future is bright and promising. So far...so good.

2. Unrelated to their cholesterol lowering, statins have been found to have anti-inflammatory, plaque-stabilizing properties which have a slight benefit in coronary heart disease.

3. Statins kill people - lots of people - and they wound many, many more. All patients taking statins become depleted in Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), eventually - those patients who start with a relatively low CoQ10 levels (the elderly and patients with heart failure) begin to manifest signs/symptoms of CoQ10 deficiency relatively rapidly - in 6 to 12 months. Younger, healthier people who's only "illness" is the non-illness "hypercholesterolemia" can tolerate statins for several years before getting into trouble with fatigue, muscle weakness and soreness (usually with normal muscle enzyme CPK tests) and most ominously - heart failure.

In my practice of 17 years in Tyler, Texas, I have seen a frightening increase in heart failure secondary to statin usage, "statin cardiomyopathy". Over the past five years, statins have become more potent, are being prescribed in higher doses, and are being used with reckless abandon in the elderly and in patients with "normal" cholesterol levels. We are in the midst of a CHF epidemic in the US with a dramatic increase over the past decade. Are we causing this epidemic through our zealous use of statins? In large part I think the answer is yes.

We are now in a position to witness the unfolding of the greatest medical tragedy of all time - never before in history has the medical establishment knowingly (Merck & Co., Inc. has two 1990 patents combining CoQ10 with statins to prevent CoQ10 depletion and attendant side effects) created a life threatening nutrient deficiency in millions of otherwise healthy people, only to then sit back with arrogance and horrific irresponsibility and watch to see what happens - as I see two to three new statin cardiomyopathies per week in my practice, I cannot help but view my once great profession with a mixture of sorrow and contempt."

More on this article from July 8, 2002 here. With NICE pushing for millions more adults to be on statins in the UK, will they be recommending Coenzyme Q10 supplementation for statin users ? probably not, it's all down to cost you see. We want you on statins, but please don't ask for Coenzyme Q10, the budget doesn't run that high, on your way lad, next patient please !

Eddie (my bold text)

Robert Lustig: Don’t believe industry-paid ‘experts’ on soda and diabetes

Upton Sinclair once said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

That’s certainly the case with the beverage industry’s aggressive efforts to recruit quasi-nutritionists to promote their ridiculous and scientifically disproven arguments – for example, that eating fruit has the same effect on the human body as drinking a soda.

By paying academics to be their spokesmen, trade groups representing the food and beverage industry are reviving a decades-old propaganda ploy, similar to when tobacco giants paid doctors and other “experts” to promote cigarettes.

This isn’t an anomaly; the practice is becoming endemic. Earlier this month, Liz Applegate, a UC Davis lecturer and American Beverage Association adviser, published an op-ed in The Sacramento Bee parroting industry talking points. Another recent example is James Rippe of the University of Central Florida, who was paid $500,000 a year by the Corn Refiners Association to publish commentaries in newspapers and academic journals.

Not only do beverage companies spend billions to deceptively market their products, they also spend millions commissioning biased research and paying “scientific advisers.” These shills spread the disproven claims that “a calorie is a calorie” and “sugar is sugar” – as if it doesn’t matter whether your children eat a balanced diet or only drink sugar water. Don’t be deceived.

As directors of major obesity and diabetes research programs at the University of Southern California and the University of California, San Francisco, who don’t take industry money, we want to set the record straight.

More than 20 years of peer-reviewed scientific research has pinpointed sugary drinks (whether sweetened with sucrose or high fructose corn syrup) as a primary contributor to Type 2 diabetes, especially in children. While we would all agree that there are other contributors, added sugars in beverages has emerged as the leading – and most preventable – risk factor.

Over the past 30 years, diabetes rates have more than tripled. Today, one-quarter of teens have diabetes or prediabetes, twice the rate of just 10 years ago. It’s no coincidence that two-thirds of teens have a soda, energy or sports drink every day.

Sugary drink consumption leads to fatty liver disease and insulin resistance, two contributors to the development of Type 2 diabetes. Drinking a soda a day for six months increases liver fat by almost 150 percent. In just eight weeks, the consumption of fructose-based beverages increases insulin resistance by 17 percent. A study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that drinking two or more sugary drinks daily triples the risk of death from heart attack (independent of weight or calories).

Sugary beverages – whether soft, sports or fruit drinks, or vitamin waters – are particularly harmful for several reasons. First, they contain an enormous amount of sugar (equivalent to 16 teaspoons per 20 ounces), contributing to weight gain, which is tied to diabetes.

Second, by lacking any nutrients (such as protein, fat or fiber) that slow the body’s absorption of these sugars, soft drinks lead to massive spikes in both glucose and fructose, the two sugars that make up sucrose and high fructose corn syrup. Repeated spikes in blood glucose require the pancreas to secrete high levels of insulin. The massive infusion of fructose is converted into fat by the liver, similar to how alcohol is metabolized. Fatty liver increases insulin resistance and inflammation, which in turn force the pancreas to produce even more insulin. Over time, the pancreas becomes exhausted and wears out, leading to diabetes.

Are apples really as harmful as soda? Of course not.

A soda has roughly three times more sugar, and since soda has no nutrients to be digested, it is absorbed immediately, spiking insulin and fattening up the liver. An apple, on the other hand, contains fiber so it is absorbed slowly, giving your liver a chance to catch up.

It is time for California to tune out beverage industry propaganda and tune in to the hard science showing how sugary beverages contribute to California’s bad health and rising health care costs. It is time for the beverage industry to stop paying off scientists. And it is time that we all learn the truth about the harmful effects of sugary drinks.

Robert Lustig is a professor of pediatrics and director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health program at the University of California, San Francisco. Michael Goran is a professor of preventive medicine and pediatrics who holds an endowed chair in childhood obesity and diabetes at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California.

http://www.sacbee.com/

Graham

I have decided to join twitter to keep spreading the low carb good news.

As if I did not have enough to do I have recently joined twitter. Follow the low carb diabetic for more good news on the the low carb lifestyle, links to low carb news, recipes and good food ideas, and more of the usual mayhem, wind ups and villainy.

Join in the good news fun and games here https://twitter.com/lowcarbdiabetic

Eddie

Low carber prepares to enter the CarbSane blog

It was a close thing.

Cameron felt traumatised after nearly coming into contact with poor people.

DCUK Low Carb Antis Outed !

Noblehead is the yellow one

Remember, when it comes to metabolic disease it’s all about the insulin !

Insulin is often referred to by biochemists as the fat building hormone. In fact, the body cannot make body fat without insulin. It is very unusual to find an overweight individual who doesn’t also have elevated insulin levels. 

Type 2 diabetics, at diagnosis, will often be overproducing insulin. Insulin also inhibits the body’s use of stored fat as a source of fuel. 

Lowering insulin levels is extremely important, perhaps essential, for weight loss to succeed. This is one reason why low carb diets are particularly successful in weight loss since the fewer the carbs, the less insulin is required.

Some may also find that they consume fewer calories without feeling hungry because their fat metabolism begins to work properly once more, allowing the body access to energy reserves in fat stores which were previously inaccessible.

Eddie

Dr. Bernstein Webcast and Teleconference Call, Wednesday, July 30

This month's Ask Dr. Bernstein Webcast and Teleconference will be broadcast next Wednesday, July 30, at 6:45 PM CST, 7:45 pm EST, 4:45 pm PST.

Special topics Dr. Bernstein will address include:
New device for truly painless nocturnal tush BG lancet for sleeping children.
Yet another new cardiac risk marker that outperforms cholesterol.
Another new reason why metformin can prolong life

Listening method: Phone + Web Simulcast
Primary dial-in: (425) 440-5100
Secondary dial in number: (615) 209-7999
Full List of Dial in Numbers: http://InstantTeleseminar.com/Local/?eventid=57084393
PIN Code: 900326#
To attend by web, visit: http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=57084393

Skype: Go to http://instantteleseminar.com/skype/. Use the skype id "joinconference", then bring up the dial pad to enter the conference id, 900326#.

Don’t forget to click on VIEW SLIDES on the website while the teleconference is on.

Put the schedule in your calendar for 2014 (all Wednesdays except for 2 dates):

August 27
September 23 (Tuesday)
October 29
November 26
December 30 (Tuesday)

Eddie

Dietary Carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management. Critical review and evidence base

Abstract

The inability of current recommendations to control the epidemic of diabetes, the specific failure of the prevailing low-fat diets to improve obesity, cardiovascular risk or general health and the persistent reports of some serious side effects of commonly prescribed diabetic medications, in combination with the continued success of low-carbohydrate diets in the treatment of diabetes and metabolic syndrome without significant side effects, point to the need for a reappraisal of dietary guidelines.

Graphical Abstract
Highlights

•We present major evidence for low-carbohydrate diets as first approach for diabetes.

•Such diets reliably reduce high blood glucose, the most salient feature of diabetes.

•Benefits do not require weight loss although nothing is better for weight reduction.

•Carbohydrate-restricted diets reduce or eliminate medication.

•There are no side effects comparable to those seen in intensive treatment with drugs.

The benefits of carbohydrate restriction in diabetes are immediate and well-documented. Concerns about the efficacy and safety are long-term and conjectural rather than data-driven. Dietary carbohydrate restriction reliably reduces high blood glucose, does not require weight loss (although is still best for weight loss) and leads to the reduction or elimination of medication and has never shown side effects comparable to those seen in many drugs.

Here we present 12 points of evidence supporting the use of low-carbohydrate diets as the first approach to treating type 2 diabetes and as the most effective adjunct to pharmacology in type 1. They represent the best-documented, least controversial results. The insistence on long-term random-controlled trials as the only kind of data that will be accepted is without precedent in science. The seriousness of diabetes requires that we evaluate all of the evidence that is available. The 12 points are sufficiently compelling that we feel that the burden of proof rests with those who are opposed.

“At the end of our clinic day, we go home thinking, ‘The clinical improvements are so large and obvious, why don't other doctors understand?’ Carbohydrate restriction is easily grasped by patients: because carbohydrates in the diet raise the blood glucose, and as diabetes is defined by high blood glucose, it makes sense to lower the carbohydrate in the diet. By reducing the carbohydrate in the diet, we have been able to taper patients off as much as 150 units of insulin per day in eight days, with marked improvement in glycemic control – even normalization of glycemic parameters.”

— Eric Westman, MD, MHS [1].

Reduction in dietary carbohydrate as a therapy for diabetes has a checkered history. Before and, to a large extent, after the discovery of insulin, it was the preferred therapeutic approach [2]. Only total reduction in energy intake was comparable as an effective dietary intervention. The rationale was that both type 1 and type 2 diabetes represent disruptions in carbohydrate metabolism. The most salient feature of both diseases is hyperglycemia and the intuitive idea that reducing carbohydrate would ameliorate this symptom is borne out by experiment with no significant exceptions. Two factors probably contributed to changes in the standard approach. The ascendancy of the low-fat paradigm meant that the fat that would replace the carbohydrate that was removed was now perceived as a greater threat, admittedly long-term, than the immediate benefit from improvement in glycemia. The discovery of insulin may have also cast diabetes — at least type 1 — as a hormone deficiency disease where insulin (or more recent drugs) were assumed to be a given and dietary considerations were secondary. For these and other reasons, dietary carbohydrate holds an ambiguous position as a therapy.

Although low-carbohydrate diets are still controversial, they have continued to demonstrate effectiveness with little risk and good compliance. At the same time, the general failure of the low-fat paradigm to meet expectations, coupled with continuing reports of side effects of different drugs indicates a need for re-evaluation of the role for reduction in carbohydrate. The current issue seems to be whether we must wait for a long-term random controlled trial (RCT) or whether we should evaluate all the relevant information. Practical considerations make it virtually impossible to fund a large study of non-traditional approaches. In any case, the idea that there is one kind of evidence to evaluate every scientific question is unknown in any science. Here we present 12 points of evidence supporting the use of low-carbohydrate diets as the first approach to treating type 2 diabetes and as the most effective adjunct to pharmacology in type 1. They are proposed as the most well-established, least controversial results. It is not known who decides what constitutes evidence-based medicine but we feel that these points are sufficiently strong that the burden of proof rests on critics. The points are, in any case, intended to serve as the basis for improved communication on this topic between researchers in the field, the medical community, and the organizations creating dietary guidelines. The severity of the diabetes epidemic warrants careful and renewed consideration of our assumptions about the diet for diabetes.

Definitions: A lack of agreed-upon definitions for “low-carbohydrate diet” has been a persistent barrier to communication. We propose the definitions in Table 1 to eliminate ambiguity. Each definition is based on use in multiple publications by those authors who have performed the experimental studies 3, 4, 5, 6.

Full text here: http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/t

DCUK featured this in their news section as per usual no link to the article was given, this prompted a comment from David Mendosa:

Nicolai Worm Thank you, Dr. Worm. Thanks both for providing the link and to being one of the authors of this important review. Without your link I don't think that I could have found the study. It seems to me almost that diabetes.co.uk wanted to hide it. I have never come across a review of a study that didn't give a single name of an author or the title of the study.

Graham 

99 change hands !

US President meets next UK Prime Minister

  

DCUK Another day another great low carb success story !

"Hi All,

Diagnosed with T2 in Jan 2013. Very serious about managing BG levels so used this forum quite intensively to glean some really helpful insights - so thanks for contributing!

In 14 months I've managed to turn around the following readings (Jan 2013 - Mar 2014): Started out with Gliclazide 80 then up to 160mg for a few weeks, then down to no meds at all since. 

HbA1c from 10.1% to 5.6% (87 to 38)
LDL from "TOO HIGH" to 2.4
HDL from 1 to 1.5
Triglycerides from 7.6 to 1.4

Obviously low carbs was key, but so was exercise, LOADS more more salad and vegetables. And er, red wine... but also cut out sugar as much as possible. 

To reduce the bad cholesterol I used loads of around almonds on my porridge, add loads of nuts and seeds, increased my omega 3 intake too... and virtually cut out bread, pasta and potatoes - although I did have odd weak moment

The docs at my local GP surgery are saying they have never seen anything like this before - it actually made their day. That's gotta be worth sharing?!

Gary."

Above post taken from here.

Eddie

Low carb grain-free meatballs with tandoori spices.

Check out this great recipe and many more at this goldmine of great low carb grub here.

Eddie