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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…

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…

In heaven, play a round of golf for me. Then, make yourself some ramen. Instant noodle inventor Momofuku Ando loved golf so much that he dreamed of dying on the golf course. When he passed away in 2007, the number eighty-six billion circulated in his…