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Why you need a glucagon kit

Glucagon injection is an emergency medicine used to treat severe hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in diabetes patients treated with insulin who have passed out or cannot take some form of sugar by mouth. Many years ago when I lived in the UK something tragic happened…

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23:1, or One Meal A Day Diet

When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the maximum of freedom to the mind during the day. A couple of months back the bear was suffering from food fatigue. In an…

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Most Googled Diets

Every year Google releases statistics of what people have searched the most for. As I looked through the lists I realized that I had no idea who most of the people on there were, but on the diet front I was up to date. A…

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Staying in touch with the pig

When you're a diabetic on a low carb diet high in meat you have some ethical concerns. I've read Peter Singer and I didn't eat meat for several years when I was younger. I'll always pay a bit more for the ethical option. In addition…

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The book every diabetic should read

I am convinced from my personal experience, from the experiences of my patients, and from reading the scientific literature, that people with normal blood sugars do not develop the long-term complications of diabetes. Dr Bernstein is my hero. I was lucky enough to come across…

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