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After eating this meal for seven days straight, I've nailed it. To be honest, it wasn't that difficult to get it right. Meat and vegetables have two things going for them as a meal - they're healthy and easy to dose insulin for. Salad is…

When John Yudkin studied the potentially damaging effects of sugar in the 1960s, he correlated things like obesity and a high intake of sugar. What he didn't have was causation. Proving causation is tricky when it comes to the human body because so many variables…

I spent most of yesterday reading John Yudkin's exposé on the sugar industry. With Pure, White and Deadly, published in 1972, Yudkin became one of our first scientists to raise the alarm on sugar. Long before the rise of high fructose corn syrup and two-liter…

It's all about vaccines these days. Where I live in Prague, the outdoor areas of bars and restaurants just opened up. A condition is that patrons must be able to show vaccination certificates or valid covid-tests in random spot checks by the police. After observing…

Diabetic ketoacidosis is awful. One star awful, would not recommend. When I looked at myself in the hospital mirror, I almost screamed. Overnight, I'd aged ten years, and I looked witchlike. Part of it was down to the severe dehydration from the ketoacidosis and resolved…