Price – The Food Programme – My diabetes avoidance blog

Price was the most important thing cited by almost all shoppers in Bristol when asked on The Food Programme by Sheila Dillon what most affected choice when food shopping. I’m glad I am not alone in buying cheap food, as I’ve felt guilty neglecting my health. Something strange that happened as a result of this

My diabetes avoidance blog – continued

Yesterday I ate salmon and greens for dinner. I had eaten an afternoon snack of brown rice with sugar-free jam. I admit to finishing off the “birthday” white chocolate. I rang my G P who is arranging more tests as he doesn’t like my persistently low iron levels. I’m still waiting to hear back on

My Diabetes Avoidance Blog – day 12

Well it’s 12 days since I began this blog. Yesterday I decided to eat some of my birthday chocolate early. I’m allowed chocolate every 7 days, and I was beginning to worry that it would taste overly sweet and I wouldn’t want it at all by today. I ate 3 squares. I was stunned by

My diabetes avoidance blog – Wednesday – oatmeal

I read recently that oatmeal is good for the heart. I probably knew this once, and then other priorities kicked in; survival being one, and I made myself forget. I used to eat oatmeal biscuits. They are 95% oatmeal which means there isn’t much room for anything else. It gets tiring reading long lists of

short one -My diabetes avoidance blog

Yesterday, one hour after eating bread with grains in it, I had intense pain to the left and center of my chest. This went on for an hour; someone told me this was heart burn; to me this sounds like a euphemism for something worse. The pain was more like being stabbed with a a