If I had Diabetes

Diabetes is a horrendous condition.  If you can imagine all your small blood vessels falling apart all over your body you can get a sense of just how bad it is.   That’s why you end up with gangrene, amputations, go blind and lose your kidneys as well as double...

Diabetes Type 1 – going against medical advice changed his life

I loved this story that Andreas highlighted. http://www.dietdoctor.com/overall-now-completely-new-life It’s great the way P-O was so methodical about his numbers and self care.  His story can help all of us, whether we have diabetes or not. The points that stick...

Dr Richard Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution

  Whether you have diabetes or not Dr Richard Bernstein is well worth reading and paying attention to. I’ve mentioned quite a bit recently about carbohydrate intolerance and carbohydrate restriction and the value of learning to apply that for most people.   The...

Some Corona Virus Realism

I thought that when madness abounds and toilet paper flies like wild migrating geese to more hospitable pastures, a touch of corona virus realism might help the frightened soul. Below are my favourite corona virus enlightenments so far. If you want a quick summary:...

Evolving Food Pyramids

Bush doctor 1978 – Medical Elective in New Guinea Waking Up You could say I was “ahead of my time”, when I went vegetarian, half way through medical school in the 70’s. On the surface things looked good for 30 years but then the problems began....