Did you read the latest headlines Yesterday? According to this article, “The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) is streamlining litigation for all federal cases alleging injury caused by the diabetes drug ACTOS®.” and… “Plaintiffs allege that individuals who use Actos face an increased risk of developing bladder cancer. Plaintiffs further allege that the defendants …
Jan 3, 2012 Update Brendan Williams (my nephew) will be undergoing a kidney transplant today in Chapel Hill, NC. My Sister-In-Law Terry Westbrook will be donating a kidney as well today. Thoughts and prayers are welcome. Update: On every level this event was a success and though I played a TINY part… it was nice …
November was a month of ‘bashing’ the American Diabetes Association…and a month of thanks too of course. December was a month of experiments. The popularity of my humble attempt at educating, motivating and entertaining people (the blog) … has exceeded my expectations. Every month saw increases in readership… including November and December when people have many other …
If you are NOT yet ‘low carb paleo’ … please, I urge you to give it a try. Step outside your comfort zone… like I am going to do. ;)
A low carb paleo lifestyle helps me manage diabetes. I am a formerly obese, formerly drug and insulin dependent diabetic.
You should eat a diverse diabetes diet. Read below, do not assume you know what I am referring to, the devil is in the details. diversity of foods generally equates to more diverse nutrients consumed. there are no ‘essential carbohydrates’. Your diabetes diet should not only include meats (fatty meats to be specific) but you …
Healthcare would be designed to make you healthy.
We do not have that.
We have a system designed to mask or cover up symptoms, while our underlying health deteriorates.
You should be creative! You should be looking for ways to make your own, more nutritious and healthy foods.
I am experimenting again … eating only butter, cream and coconut oil. Here is the introduction and Day 1 post, “Fat Fast Day 1.” In yesterday’s post, “Day 2” … I ranted against the ADA and their ridiculous anti-saturated fat stance in addition to providing details on my fat fast. In this post I will talk briefly …
I will go into the details of Day 2 … but first a Public Service Announcement (PSA). Do you know what Diabetes is? It is hyperglycemia, which means… high blood sugar. check it out, “click here“. Do you want to stop all of YOUR diabetes symptoms from worsening? … if so then normalize blood sugars. Normalizing …
I recently completed a 24 hour high carb experiment. I proved that I was still a diabetic among other things, if you missed the post here’s a link, “Date with the Devil – Follow Up“. This post is regarding a new experiment… in a totally different direction, this will be an almost 100% fat test. …
If you are not familiar with my ‘Date with the Devil’ posts, you should read Day 1 and Day 2 before proceeding. In brief, I went very high carb for 24 hours, ‘the devil’ was high carbohydrates. I received quite a few comments and questions regarding my experiment … which told me I needed to …
I had a … date with the devil??? YES!!! … and by devil I mean… Carbohydrates!!! Now…I”m not talking about eating an orange wedge… or even a baked potato! We are talking full BORE high carb eating!!! ………… however I remained GLUTEN FREE! :) Note: If you are not drug / insulin free and if …
Why a new experiment? To gain knowledge of course! My high carb experiment was only 24 hours, from Noon to noon, 12/5 and 12/6/2011 but that was long enough. The devil being … carbohydrates. :) Notes 1) I am a Type 2 Diabetic who successfully self treats my disease with diet and exercise. I maintain …
Objectively and critically examine your life and lifestyle to see what can be changed or tweaked to improve overall health and fitness.
Intense Exercise is GOOD!!! … but too much, too often may have adverse affects.
This is the intial entry in a new category of posts called, “Diabetes Questions”. Periodically I will select questions and answer them via a post. Rest assured, anonymity will be preserved. Below is an email I received and the questions or statements were addresssed ‘in line’. I have quoted my comments. ======================== > Hello …
Some may consider this food post ‘bizarre’ or unusual…. it’s just fish and bacon. I have talked about the importance of eating non-traditional foods and expanding your food varieties. Here is a post dedicated to the subject, “Bizarre Foods“. Here is a post with foods that I called bizarre, “Cactus, Fish and Bacon“. Of course, …
Do you have a child that has diabetes symptoms? Have they had high blood sugars (hyperglycemia)? … but were tested for diabetes using an Hemoglobin A1c test? If so, I would urge you to read this post and consider other options, an article below states the tests are inaccurate for children. I’ll also discuss an …
Note: Here is the first post I mention spatchcocking … in that post I was cooking a chicken. I could easily spatchcock a chicken in less than a minute, it is SO easy, quick and simple. I have done it numerous times now and really … there is no reason to ever buy ‘chicken parts’…. …
I have several posts on making ‘low carb’ primal chili … so I won’t go over it here. If you want to see those posts, click here for the recipe and here, here for additional posts. I made a huge pot of chili yesterday and had plenty of leftovers ready for use. :) Click to …