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Veganuary

It's that time of the year again. According to the Guardian, a record 500,000 people in the UK have signed up to the challenge to eat only plant-based foods for a month. It's double what it was last year with Tesco and other supermarkets running…

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The ethics of eating

Over Christmas, I've been reading What we eat and why it matters by Jim Mason and Peter Singer. Singer, who's a moral philosopher at Princeton, hit fame with Animal Liberation in the 1970's and became a front figure for the animal rights movement. He has…

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Out of control blood sugars part 2

The results are in! After spending a month de-stressing with action movies on Netflix and John Grisham on the bedside table my blood sugar is back to normal. Changing the amount of basal insulin from 13u to 15u made a difference within a few days.

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Why you should keep a blood sugar log

If it can't be expressed in numbers, it's not science. It's opinion. It's tricky to stay on top of your diabetes if you don't know your numbers from day-to-day. When things are out of control, the best thing you can do is start to log…

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Out of control blood sugars

Diabeteswise, it's been an awful couple of weeks. It started with a home exam in central-european history, followed by a cold. With stress hormones all over the place, the result was terrible blood sugars. As the cold's passing and I've figured out the long-term consequences…

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