Type 2 diabetes

• howard mcsweeney1

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  29 November 2011     22:14139809
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  this may apply to a few of our members and others looking in.
  
  
  http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/286646/Diet-is-wonder-cure-for-diabetes
• Guest 710

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  29 November 2011     22:45139812
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  Calculate Your Own Body Mass Index...
  
  
  http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/
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• Jan Higgins

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  29 November 2011     22:46139816
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  The only problem for most people would be the drastic 500 calories a day, a simple chicken sandwich can easily be over 400 calories.
  
  I always understood from dieticians that crash diets were bad for you, a case of the medical professionals disagreeing with each other yet again.
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  29 November 2011     22:49139819
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  will have to take your word about that jan, i have no idea what a calorie is and how many constitute a meal.
  
  i have never worked out why 5 toffee apples a day is essential to our well being either.
• Guest 653

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  30 November 2011     08:29139845
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  I read that article and I think it is not completely honest and gives a wrong impression to those people with type 2 diabetes - like me.
  
  I lost 2 1/2 stone in the summer and looked and felt better for it (apart from 6 days in hospital !). I have been diabetic for around 23 years and my blood sugar is reasonably well controlled; the last blood-sugar test I took, the other day, it was 4.4, but it is usually around 6 or 7.
  
  I have been told that I still have to go on to daily insulin injections and quite soon too, no matter how low my blood-sugar readings are.
  
  With insulin converting the body's glucose/sugar to energy, so that you don't have high blood-sugar levels, I'd have thought that my system is working reasonably well, but apparantly not.
  That's why these kind of articles don't help much. I read somewhere else a couple of years ago that I could virtually do away with diabetes if I lost weight and exercised more - seems not.
  
  
  
  
  Roger