June 28, 2013CHICAGO — Compared with a low-fat, calorie-restricted diet, a low-carbohydrate diet reduced HbA1c and resulted in twice as much weight loss in patients with diabetes, study results presented at the ADA Scientific Sessions suggest.Participants were randomly assigned a low-fat, calorie-restricted diet in which caloric intake was 500 calories below the estimated need for weight maintenance (n=18) or a low-carbohydrate diet that restricted intake of carbohydrates to 50 gm per day excluding fiber (n=16). Carbohydrates...
Low-carbohydrate diet improved HbA1c, weight loss in diabetes !
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Gezzathorpe and why I feel another Jimmy Moore pod cast coming on.
“As for making a point against lowcarb, I think I have claimed to be lowcarb at least 6 times in various blogs, so it would strange for me to be making a point against my own practice.”Sorry folks, some of you must be getting sick of the amount of times we have posted about this guy recently, but he gets more ludicrous with every post. Remember he says he is a diabetic (he has proved he is not), he uses no diabetes medication and holds...
More on Graham’s post last night.
So often in life it’s not what you do, it’s how you do it. The nearer a diabetic can get to non diabetic blood glucose numbers the better the outcome in avoiding serious diabetic complications. This has been proved many times. It is of paramount importance how you achieve those numbers. Using a high carb diet and ramming BG numbers down with drugs is a disaster, as proved in the ACCORD study. So many type two diabetics died, the study ended early. Unfortunately the lowcarb naysayers forget to point out the reason this comment...
ADA: 18 Years Later, A1c Matters for DCCT Intensive Control Group !
The results continue to show dramatic reductions in complications....Almost two decades after the landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) ended, we are still seeing dramatic reductions in diabetes complications achieved with intensive glycemic control in the intensive control group.After 18 years, the overall prevalence of diabetes complications is 50% lower among the type 1 diabetes patients in the DCCT who were randomly assigned to intensive glucose control compared with those who received conventional treatment,...
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell
This must be a first for this blog the current UK chart topper, decided not to post the explicit version sorry guys don't want to upset the ladies. Graham...
Saturday night is music night on this blog ! Nile Rodgers popular music super star !
Usually we post up some utube vids of our favourite music, tonight it’s a little different. Last night we watched Nile Rodgers and Chic at Glastonbury, a stunning performance for sure. I had heard of Nile but I did not realise until last night his stunning and massive contribution to popular music. Check out the last number of the set and his monumental musical CV on Wiki, a true legend in his own lifetime. Good times for sure ! EddieLink...
Does anyone know a good Surgeon?
Help ladies (and gentlemen). Eddie is a sport and music fanatic, yes he does have a life other than diabetes blogs and lowcarb. This weekend it’s the British Grand Prix,Wimbledon, Motor GP, Rugby and the Glastonbury music festival. I have a feeling that on Sunday night he will need a Surgeon to remove the sofa from his butt (sorry ladies bottom). Meanwhile I have had my orders and I am off to the shops for his favourite lowcarb food and...
Wonders will never cease, Sid Bonkers finally gets something right !
"low carbing is often claimed to make you more sensitive to carbs which seems a little self defeating to me for obvious reasons."That was said today by Sid Bonkers on the forum of flog. Sid was having a kick at lowcarb, nothing new there then eh. But for once he was right. Over the years many people get slowly poisoned by highly processed carbohydrates, sugars and starches. The damage takes many years to manifest itself and becomes noticeable when we start to get health problems. Some people become obese, with all the hazards...
Your brain on carbs: Study suggests how sugary, starchy foods may lead to addiction !
High-glycemic carbohydrates, the kind found in highly processed foods like white bread, white rice and refined sugar, trigger activity in the brain's reward centers in a different way than low-glycemic carbs, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital found.Are sugary, starchy foods like crack to the brain?A new study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that the brain responds differently to some types of carbohydrates than others — and some sugary foods trigger the same reward mechanisms as drug and...
Gezzathorpe between a rock and a hard place !
When Gezza started posting, and then talking about a GT test, I thought this guy is putting himself between a rock and a hard place. If he proved he was not a diabetic, which many suspect, he proves us right. If he proves he is a diabetic, then my comment saying he is one in a million also stands. In five years I have never come across a diabetic on nil diabetes medication who could consume 250 carbs and get the sort of BG numbers Gezza...
New Government health warning announced !
As from the first of July 2013 all Sid Bonkers diabetes.co.uk forum posts must carry a Government black box health warning. The Sun BTW Gezza we have your deleted thread and post re. the GT test. We will post it up on this blog later, when time permits.Eddie and the dreamers, going down the shops....
Type 1 diabetes vaccine hailed as 'significant step'
It may be possible to reverse type 1 diabetes by training a patient's own immune system to stop attacking their body, an early trial suggests.Their immune system destroys the cells that make insulin, the hormone needed to control blood sugar levels. A study in 80 patients, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, showed a vaccine could retrain their immune system.Experts described the results as a "significant step".Normally a vaccine teaches the immune system to attack bacteria or viruses that cause...
Diabetes care shortfall puts patients at risk !
Audit report says number of patients at risk of developing life-threatening diabetic ketoacidosis is 'appalling'Many patients with diabetes who end up in hospital are suffering life-threatening complications because their care is not good enough, according to an audit published today.The National Diabetes Inpatient Audit report says it is shocking that 60 patients in hospitals across England and Wales should have developed diabetic ketoacidosis during the one week survey. The condition, which can be...
NHS Direct pulls out of two NHS 111 contracts and admits others are ‘unsustainable’
NHS Direct has pulled out of providing NHS 111 in two areas of the country and said the contracts it is currently delivering in other areas have become ‘financially unsustainable’ in a major blow to the rollout of the new urgent care number. The provider was contracted to cover a third of England’s population in 111 different areas with the new service, but papers for its latest board meeting show that it has been forced to cancel NHS 111 contracts in Cornwall and North Essex.Pulse revealed details from a leaked internal...
Ian Day the man of calm and peace who never stops fighting for the lowcarb cause.
Ian posted this thread on a diabetes forum yesterday, I have shamelessly nicked it. Check out Ian’s story and how he almost became crippled by his type two diabetes and his road to recovery. Over seventy years of age and now playing tennis against people half his age. Pretty good for an old timer wouldn’t you say. Ian not only posts on forums, he is out on the streets, in halls, promoting lowcarb wherever he can.Eddie “At the Hounslow Diabetes/Cardio Support group in Hounslow last night, a Hospital consultant came to talk...
Diabetes.co.uk does Sid Bonkers own the forum ?
After years of getting threads locked and promoting a ludicrous 1200 calorie per day diet, the Bonkers one manages to get the Southport Doctor thread locked again. Even Gezzathorpe had agreed to leave the thread alone, and the thread was back on topic, but the Bonkers one had to have one last wheedle, and push his luck again. I am left thinking he must own the forum or maybe has some sort of hold over the people that do, how else can anyone...
Great food ideas from my friend Lynda.
FrittataThis recipe is a great way to use up left over vegetables. You can use roast vegetables, cooked cabbage, broccoli, carrot, peas, beans... anything!! Please note that all measurements here are approximate because it depends on the size of your frypan and the amount of leftovers.Please Note: You must use a frypan that can be put into the oven (no plastic handle) !! If you don't have a frypan you can put...
Diabetes.co.uk outbreak of fours the floor virus suspected !
Members over at the flog have had a hard time recently, just as a dangerous outbreak of dietus ludicrous carbus appears to have been dealt with, a severe case of four’s the floor virus has broken out. Old hands may remember the Kensters obsession re. type two diabetics and hypos. He never accepted that non meds or lowcarbing type two diabetics rarely suffered from hypos. Indeed, most non meds type two diabetics have to work hard to keep BG down not up. Fours the floor was believed to have been eradicated, but returned today...
Peter Attia: What if we're wrong about diabetes?
Published on 25 Jun 2013As a young ER doctor, Peter Attia felt contempt for a patient with diabetes. She was overweight, he thought, and thus responsible for the fact that she needed a foot amputation. But years later, Attia received an unpleasant medical surprise that led him to wonder: is our understanding of diabetes right? Could the precursors to diabetes cause obesity, and not the other way around? A look at how assumptions may be leading us to wage the wrong medical war. Graham ...
Gezzathorpe diabetic super star or full of it ?
As you can see there are some posts on this blog re. the diabetes.co.uk forum member Gezzathorpe. This guy waded in big time when a GP joined the forum. Sid Bonkers accused the Doctor of being a troll and Gezza had his five bobs worth. Nothing new here, healthcare professionals are actively discouraged from joining and contributing on the forum of flog, just ask Dr. Jay Wortman. This thread really got cooking when Gezzathorpe told us about...
More on Grahams post last night re. weight loss and diabetic outcomes.
Check out Graham’s post last night and you would get the impression weight loss was a waste of time in diabetics regarding heart attacks and stroke, pretty depressing read for sure. But and it is a very big but ! all the participants had extremely poor HbA1c numbers. Are you getting the big picture ? Also the intensive control group were on a heavy duty medication regime, including drugs now banned for killing people. Check out what I wrote...
Diabetes: Doctors warn on amputation risk !
Scotland is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. The consequence of this is type-2 diabetes, a weight-related and life-threatening condition.Almost a quarter of a million people in Scotland have it. Dr Gerald Spence has worked as a GP at Shettleston medical practice in Glasgow for more than 30 years. He says: "We've had an almost 50% increase in diabetics in the past five or six years in the practice."We've gone from about 250 to about 350 in the practice. "Now we are seeing it in younger and younger people. People in their...
Weight loss does not reduce heart, stroke woes in overweight Type 2 diabetics !
An intensive, lifestyle intervention focused on weight-loss does not reduce cardiovascular events in overweight or obese adults with Type 2 diabetes, according to the first reported results from the more-than-decade-long Look AHEAD trial conducted by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers and colleagues, and presented June 25, 2013 at the 73rd Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association.Researchers said the rates of cardiovascular death and complications were virtually equal among...
New weight-loss drug available !
Nearly a year after receiving approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a new obesity drug will be available to certain patients by prescription, starting Tuesday. The FDA approved Belviq, an oral medication, in June 2012. The delay in availability was in part because the Drug Enforcement Administration needed to review the drug. People with a body mass index of more than 30 or a BMI of 27 with at least one weight-related condition, such as hypertension or Type 2 diabetes, are eligible for a prescription. Belviq,...
The Golden Gezza Award Unveiled !
One of the diabetes worlds most closely guarded secrets was unveiled today at the monthly board meeting of the Wallycorker foundation and lowcarb diabetic blog trustees. Co-designed by Lord Beantipper and Roger ‘Keto Warrior’ Jenkins and cast in solid 24ct.gold The Golden Gezza was universally accepted as a masterpiece. Both men refused to comment on rumours Beantipper’s member had been used to make the mold.This prize will only be awarded...
ADA: Intensive Tx Yields Long-Term Gain in Type 1 Diabetes !
CHICAGO -- Benefits seen with intensive therapy for type 1 diabetes in a large epidemiological study persist through extended follow-up, according to the latest data from the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) and Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) trial.Over 18 years, patients who had intensive management -- hitting a glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) target of 7% -- had a 46% lower risk of retinopathy, a 39% reduced risk of microalbuminuria, and a 61% lower risk of macroalbuminuria (P<0.0001...
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