It seems obvious now that if your GP tells you that you can no longer process the sugars in your blood (diagnosing pre-diabetes) you can fix it by eating less sugar generating foods (Carbs).

So why isn’t everyone getting slimmer and healthier.

The dietary advice we get from many agencies is still contradictory and wrong. We’re told to eat less fat, salt and sugar and then told to eat starchy (sugar generating foods) and vegetable oils – All bad advice for humans

Clearly this ain’t working but something better is now starting to happen.

A small but growing number of people have decided that if they can’t handle Carbohydrates (Diabetes) they should limit them to less than they burn in a day. That way they will bring blood sugar down towards normal and stop storing the excess sugar in their expanding waistlines. They are becoming slimmer and healthier.

Seven years ago after publishing a research review I decided to get myself checked. A Diabetic Clinician told me that I needed insulin and was was on a one-way journey of decline. They said all I could hope was to slow it down. With my research knowledge I declined the advice on offer and requested a further review in 3 months time.  Eating lots of Carbs was now going to be harmful! I lowered my carbohydrate intake to 100g per day (a modest but easy target). , I knew I could burn all that carbohydrate in a day,  At the review my astonished Clinician said I was on well on my way toward good control without medical intervention. At that clinician failed to investigate what I had done!

Two years later  I softened my stance and accepted Metformin thinking it was OK and would  help me control my blood sugars. I settled into a stable period of good sugar control, improved waist line and my weight.

Two years ago, I was inspired by a gadget which I could wear that recorded my sugar level all day and graphed it on my laptop. This allowed me to find out more about how my lifestyle was affecting my sugar. Diet, Activity and stress all play their part. But in 2017 I was told I was no longer diabetic.

In remission as a prediabetic I stopped needing Metformin, but I was too late stopping. My dentist noticed a problem on my tongue and after further investigation suggested I should get checked out for a vitamin B12 deficiency. A cascade of problems was now in play.

• Long-term use of Metformin can cause B12 deficiency
• We also know know that B12 deficiency can lead to blocked arteries.

I am now well and moving back to diabetes remission with full health thanks to an amazing and timely intervention by the Yorkshire Heart Centre, They too accepted my reasons for not taking statins (a separate blog) and I am now only taking a cardio-aspirin once a day, walking up to 14 miles a day in the dales and feeling really good

I have to say that the dietary advice is at best patchy but the Low Carb Lifestyle is now acknowledged and aapproved by the NHS (UK) for reversing mature-onset diabetes. In fact a lot of troubles that are thought of as “Old Age” are improved by Low Carb Lifestyle, Mindfulness and Exercise.