Diabetes Diet
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The Diabetes Diet explores what people affected with type one diabetes and type two diabetes, pre-diabetes and obesity need to do to get mastery over their blood sugar control, metabolism and weight. The scientific reasoning behind the low carbohydrate dietary approach is fully referenced and made easy by menu plans and low-carb recipes.
Diabetes Diet
4d ago
Adapted from BMJ 21 Jan 2023 Gestational age at birth and later cognition. It is always a worry for parents when they have a premature baby. Will my baby be physically normal? Will they have brain damage? A Danish study looked at almost 800,000 children who had been born between 1986 and 2003. Comment: this ..read more
Diabetes Diet
1w ago
This year’s Scottish PHC conference was as St Stephen’s Renfield Church Centre in Glasgow. The main theme of the conference was heart health. Many of the behaviours that improve heart health also improve health generally, and these will be familiar to readers of this blog. In this series of articles I will summarise some of ..read more
Diabetes Diet
2w ago
Adapted from BMJ 19 October 2024 My comments: Decades ago it was found that newly diagnosed type twos who were put on insulin clamps for two weeks, recovered beta cell function, and had better blood sugars over the next two years, than their compatriots who had usual treatment. For as long as I can remember ..read more
Diabetes Diet
3w ago
Adapted from BMJ 2-9 Nov 2024 I have prescribed Amitriptyline for years for irritable bowel syndrome so I was pleased to see this article that showed a recent RCT gave good results, with the hope that General Practitioners will use it more often. First line treatments for irritable bowel syndrome include removal of the offending ..read more
Diabetes Diet
1M ago
Adapted from BMJ 8 June 2024 The United Nations has stated that there has been a fall in global mortality for children under the age of 5 between 2000 and 2022 from 76 deaths in every thousand live births to 37 in every thousand live births. This is a drop of 51%, a result that ..read more
Diabetes Diet
1M ago
In October we had our class reunion from Glasgow University Medical School some 42 years after we qualified. We met for dinner at the iconic Central Hotel Glasgow for dinner. It was an evening full of nostalgia and it was great to see old classmates, several who had come from as far away as New ..read more
Diabetes Diet
1M ago
Adapted from BMJ 13 July 2024 Columbia University asked 5,000 participants about their personal factors and recovery time after Covid infection. Median recovery time was 20 days, but more than one in 5 were still having symptoms at 90 days. People who took a long time to recover tended to be women or to have ..read more
Diabetes Diet
1M ago
Adapted from BMJ 15 June2024 Global burden of type 1 diabetes in adults aged 65 years and older. 1990-2019. The number of people from 21 regions and 204 countries was collated in this study. The number of older adults with type one diabetes increased from 1.3 million in 1990 to 3.7 million in 2019. This ..read more
Diabetes Diet
2M ago
Adapted from recipe in New York Times by Craig Claiborne and Pierre Franey July 2 2024 This dish is traditionally served with rice. Feel free to use any low starch vegetable combination. I have de-carbed the original recipe so that the flour has been omitted. Total time about and hour and 30 minutes. For 4-6 ..read more
Diabetes Diet
2M ago
Adapted from BMJ 27 July 24 Some types of endometriosis can increase the risk of ovarian cancer by almost ten fold. Endometriosis affects 11% of the female population and causes half of all cases of pelvic pain and female infertility. A large cohort study from Utah found that women who were diagnosed with endometriosis were ..read more