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In reading Neil Bradbury's A taste for poison: Eleven deadly molecules and the killers who used them I came across an interesting story. It dealt with the first documented murder by insulin overdose. The event took place in May 1957 when Kenneth Barlow alerted the family doctor…

We had leftover duck breast and potato dauphinoise from a dinner party, so I ate the same high-carb meal three nights in a row. I even went as far as adding a dash of cranberry jam which is in essence pure sugar. Here's a breakdown…

For some time, I've had a love affair with pork scratchings. They're carb-free, high in calories, and absolutely delicious. That makes it easy to eat more than just a handful and rather have the whole bag. It might also explain why I don't lose weight,…

If you have type 1 diabetes, finding ketones in your blood or urine can be a reason for concern. Ketones, also called ketone bodies, appear as the body switches from burning glucose to burning fat for energy. It can happen because you enter ketosis, a…

When you inject insulin, it's tempting to hit the same sweet spot. Mine is lower abdomen, right-hand side, which I've abused for a long time. You need to be careful because repeatedly hitting the same injection site can cause lipodystrophy. In this condition, fat either…

There's a joke amongst people with diabetes. It goes: Don't use your index fingers to draw blood, you'll need them to read braille. It's implied that you'll at some point lose your eyesight to the diabetic retinopathy or macular degeneration that can develop as a…

My first read of the year was A big fat crisis by RAND scientist and medical doctor Deborah Cohen. Written in 2013, the same issues still rule supreme as little has changed in how we deal with the obesity epidemic. Cohen points to two core reasons why…

For the first time in years, I wasn't drunk on New Year's Eve. Instead, I was in bed with a fever, reading Calvin and Hobbes. I've got covid-19. Again. Perhaps it's not that strange. I work in a bar with an international clientele, so you…

There's an old Confucian teaching, hara hachi bu, which instructs people to eat until they're eighty percent full. It's still practiced in Okinawa, the Japanese island with one of the world's highest proportions of centenarians. The average BMI in Okinawa lies between 18 and 22. It's…