Recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, so I've now got an excuse for not eating anything disgustingly sugary. When diabetic nurse went through my diet, she told me there is no sugar to cut out, just try and lose a bit of weight from 28 BMI to below 25. I've lost 6kg over the last 6 weeks and down to 26, where I've had major, major, major, problems with Metformin and I'm now on the not quite so bad slow release version, but I'm still getting very, very, unpleasant side effects.
I don't eat cakes apart from at birthday or Christmas, never eat biscuits as I don't like them and I strongly disagree with the use of trans fats and palm oil, along with too much sugar and salt in commercially produced ones.
She agreed the only 'sugary' thing of tomatoes and fresh strawberries and raspberries from the garden, I should keep on eating. I'm mainly a vegetable eater I love my raw or cooked broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower, always have and always will, but it leaves, along with my very, very, low salt, fat and sugar bulk cooking that it leaves very little scope to reduce my sugar.
Where I'm a scientist, I'm now looking at the causes of the immune inflammation that causes the insulation intolerance and diabetes and what the latest clues that research is giving. I will now work on this to see if I can find a self cure. Some of the things I have tried so far have been wrong, like going from a high wholemeal diet (since the 1960's 300 years of wheat have been replaced by high Gluten, high protein, short stemmed varieties) to a low wheat, high protein one (it has put my blood sugar up), but where we have an epidemic, with 1 in 17 adults suffering from it, there are also plenty of clues, so I will keep on with my safe experimentation.
Where Alzheimer's, which I wish to avoid, is now considered the 4th stage of diabetes and 80% of the NHS costs are though how the disease develops (circulation problems, loss of limbs, heart attacks, blindness, kidney failure and more), much more research needs to be done and I will do my bit.
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