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Today it's one year since my first blog post. It was about how a ketogenic breakfast helps with blood sugar control. I still follow the law of small numbers advocated by Dr. Bernstein with regular insulin and low-carb meals. So what did I learn about…

Writer H.G. Wells, often called the father of science fiction, developed type 2 diabetes in his early sixties. He became a patient of the well-known physician R. D. Lawrence, that wanted to set up a diabetes in-patient department at King's College Hospital. Wells used his…

Chia seeds were a staple food for the Aztecs and Mayans. The word "chia" is the ancient Mayan word for "strength." My blood sugar experiments have been sadly lacking lately. I've been on a stable diet of pork chop and salad or grilled cheese and…

We like what we eat, more than we eat what we like. Variety encourages eating. People eat significantly more if you hand them a bowl with ten rather than just six colors of M&M's. If you give them a plate of spaghetti, they eat a…

I just finished reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, which follows a woman's descent into madness. While in the asylum, the main character receives insulin shock therapy, a commonly used psychiatric treatment in the 1960s when Plath wrote the novel. It was the preferred…