howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Calculate Your Own Body Mass Index...
http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
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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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
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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- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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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
