What Are the Best Diets to Manage Type 2 Diabetes? Key Takeaways Living with Type 2 diabetes can feel overwhelming at first; the endless advice, conflicting information, and constant fear of “getting it wrong.” I know the feeling. When I was first diagnosed, I thought I’d have to give up every food I enjoyed. The […]
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Dr Fung Top 5 Things to Know for Remission in Diabetes Type 2
Dr Fung created another great video which can be seen below, this one is shorter than the usual long form content and I advise you watch this below however I have summarised the main points if you would prefer to read below; Summary Dr Fung discusses the reversibility of type 2 diabetes, a perspective supported […]
Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: Another Perspective
I typically refer to Dr Jason Fung when discussing Insulin Resistance but I came across a great TED talk around Diabetes and Insulin Resistance. This was given by Dr Sarah Hallberg and uploaded to YouTube on 4th May 2015. In researching more about Dr Sarah Hallberg before creating this blog post I have some sad […]
Not all Carbs are equal…
I was watching Dr. Jason Fung on Carbs and Nutrition. I came across the following explaining that effectively not all carbs are equal. He goes through the history of how carbs became a staple of our diet. Also how this has been systematically tweaked since 1977 onwards. For those of you that don’t have a […]
Diabetes Type 2 Myths Debunked
Intermittent Fasting: Burn your body fat
I subscribe to Diary of a CEO as find Steven Bartlett’s interview technique appealing and his guests usually have something interesting to say. One of particular interest is one in which Steven speaks to Dr Jason Fung, I refer to Dr Fung as being instrumental in my fight against Diabetes. Using Intermitten Fasting was a […]
How do you actually treat Diabetes Type 2?
After speaking to a great Diabetic Nurse in the clinic at my GP. I was told about Dr Jason Fung. He promotes the use of intermittent fasting to help treat Diabetes. One of his videos explaining this is linked below. I recommend you watch this as it changed my life. He also has a website […]
What is my Diet?
In the beginning I was very militant and refused to eat my usual primary sources of carbs, this was a drastic change. Previously I lived on breads, pasta’s and chips, this was removed overnight. I effectively lived off meat and cheese. My “cheat” meal to remain sane so to speak was having two very small […]
Blog Posts
The following is a full collection of my blog posts on managing type two diabetes along with tips and tricks picked up since my diagnosis and further research. If you would like more medical centric information please visit Diabetes UK.