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November is Diabetes Awareness Month, World Diabetes Day is 14th November. So, here are a few of my top diabetes tips for you. As some of you know, I am on the cusp of diabetes Type 2 myself after years of PCOS insulin resistance. I've done well to hold it off so well - and …
This week: more resources on CFS, Long Covid, MCAS and shingles, a subscriber asks why she is hungry ALL THE TIME, a great snack idea to help, plus more, of course. Enjoy x More resources on CFS/ME, Long Covid, MCAS and shingles Well, my post on antivirals for CFS, ME, Long Covid, shingles etc really …
This week, I’ve got a breakfast and lunch recipe for you, we discuss the shocking childhood obesity forecasts in The Lancet and a note about lead levels in children too, which I thought more people should see, especially given the advice to just wait for symptoms to appear! Hope you find something truly useful x …
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Hi everyone, happy week x I hope you enjoyed the new Substack linky-look type newsletter last week. Over 65% of you opened it and read it, so I’m guessing it was OK. Of course, I’d like that to be 100% but I’m an eternal optimist! Do let me have any thoughts - this is a …
Thanks to those of you who let me know you prefer these digests rather than single posts - you say it is easier to scroll through and see what you are interested in and read. Glad they help. Any other thoughts or feedback, please let me know. All About Cholesterol I thought this article in …
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Happy 2024 everyone! Hope you had a fab festive break and are raring to go with another new year. I luurve new year, as many of you know. Such a great opportunity for rethinks and new starts. A whole new blank 365 days to create upon; I get so excited. So, whatever you need to …
Ok, full disclosure: artificial sweeteners is number 57 pet hate, ie. I have a lot of pet hates! Seriously, though, I am constantly asking people to eat 'real' sweetness rather than chemical sweetness because I have always thought it is not helping to regulate blood sugar, or lower the sweet cravings via a change of …
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The shorthand medical term for patients with diabetes type 2 and who are obese: 'diabesity' makes us think that everyone who is obese will get diabetes. Well, that is not actually true. Obese people don't always get diabetes and people with diabetes are not always overweight. Here's this week's quote on it for you, which …
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Clinic News to start with... TECH TRIALS: ORAL HEALTH, MIGRAINE. Remember I said I was going to try some new health tech - a water flosser, sonic toothbrush and the Cefaly Dual for migraine? Well, it didn't go that well, unfortunately. I had to send both the toothbrush and flosser back. The toothbrush was great, …
A recent article from Biotics reminds us that high fructose corn syrup - endemic in the US, but in foodstuffs here too - is one of the key reasons for weight gain. HFCS is a mix actually between fructose and glucose and is also called isoglucose and glucose-fructose syrup. It's quite a technical piece, but …
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