Catering For Different Tastes When Cooking

I see variations on this question asked many times on the various forums I am on: Being head cook and bottle washer, I have a question. Havi...

Taxes For Our Own Good

Recently there have been disquieting moves by social engineers in several countries proposing use of taxes to force the public to eat health...

Free Radicals and James Bond

I enjoyed this brief moment immensely yesterday while watching an old movie. With all due respect to Ian Fleming and Sean Connery, "Nev...

The 600 Calorie Diet for Type 2 Diabetes

A British research group reported the following a few weeks ago. I had hoped the results would be a brief news report which would shortly go...

Good Targets, Bad Methods

There has been a lot of discussion in the media and the blogosphere about an Early Online Publication in the Lancet on 27 January 2010. Surv...

Food, Farmers and Factories

When I offer suggestions on foods for newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics on various forums such as the ADA forum or the dLife forum I am occas...

Swine Flu, Diabetes and Good Sense

I have become increasingly concerned about the implications of the H1N1, or Swine Flu, epidemic for people with conditions such as diabetes ...

Diabetes and Dental health

A couple of years ago I wrote about the two-way relationship between Diabetes and Periodontal disease in Teeth, Gums, Diabetes and Death . ...

Smoking and Diabetes

So, you're a smoker and you've been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. And you're sick of people telling you to quit? Yeah, I know....

Analysis of a Day's Meals, Day 2

This is a quick follow-up to my previous post. I performed another analysis today, mainly to see if any of the micronutrients below RDAs in ...

Analysis of a Day's Meals

Every so often I take the time to examine and analyse a day’s meals. Not just by post-prandial blood glucose testing, because I do that much...

What to Eat at First

Every so often a newly diagnosed person arrives on the various forums I read who has no meter and is unlikely to get one for a period. Of co...

Psyllium, Fibre, Muesli and Nuts

Back when I started following Jennifer’s testing advice I gradually cut the starchy and high GI carbs in my daily menu significantly. I rep...

Red, Red Wine

I am a believer in the value of a modest intake of alcohol in the form of red wine. Some people cannot drink alcohol because they have addic...

Teeth, Gums, Diabetes and Death

First, the personal background. I was first diagnosed with periodontal disease just before I left the RAAF 22 years ago. I had the same clea...

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