Meauldsegosha wrote: » No added sugar stills contains sugar. Try sugar free.
gerrybbadd wrote: » Aldi do some lovely sugar free drinks like Lilt, Orange, lemon (fizzy).
Preset No.3 wrote: » For some reason I have been seeing more ads about the bad things that Coke does to your system. Now being a type 2 diabetic, I would drink Diet Coke, which is another can of worms altogether.
ARTIFICIAL sweeteners can cause glucose intolerance in mice, and perhaps in humans, by altering gut bacteria, a series of experiments suggests. Although artificial sweeteners – among the world's most widely used food additives – are approved by most food regulation agencies as safe for humans, the researchers who led the work suggest that their use should be reassessed. "The most shocking result is that the use of sweeteners aimed at preventing diabetes might actually be contributing to and possibly driving the epidemic that it aims to prevent," says Eran Elinav at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, who co-supervised the work with his colleague Eran Segal.
But can the results in mice be extrapolated to humans? To explore this, the team asked seven healthy people who don't normally consume sweeteners to eat the FDA's maximum daily allowance of saccharin. For a person weighing 68 kilograms, this would equate to three to four sachets of sweetener taken three times per day. By day five, four of the seven people had a significant decrease in their glucose tolerance, while three saw no change. Sequencing showed that those who responded to the sweetener started out with different gut bacteria to those who didn't respond. What's more, the gut bacteria of the four responders changed significantly after consuming sweeteners, while the non-responders' barely changed. To further show that bacterial changes were playing a role, the team took stools from two responders and two non-responders and transplanted them into sterile mice. Only the mice that received gut bacteria from responders became glucose intolerant (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature13793). Segal says that the global rise in sweetener consumption – along with other major shifts in human nutrition – coincided with the dramatic increase in obesity and diabetes epidemics around the world. He also suggests that sweeteners may have directly contributed to the exact epidemic that they were created to fight.
calfmuscle wrote: » Can i just put it out that I find there is a world of difference between type 1 and 2. Could we please have two separate treads!?
Rucking_Fetard wrote: » why is that not available for everyone?
Alanstrainor wrote: » Had to insert 3 sensors yesterday, on one, the electrode (or whatever you call the piece that stays inside you...) wasn't there at all, so there was no chance of it working. The other was giving mental numbers, and the last is working...for now. Very frustrating. And considering every enlight sensor costs about 70 quid, it's a bit ridiculous!
CramCycle wrote: » Thats shocking quality control, can you contact them for a replacement or an explanation and refund?
Alanstrainor wrote: » Well that's not the cost to me! Since it's provided under LTI...but it is ridiculous.
CramCycle wrote: » I'd still be complaining, what if you took them on holiday or were away from home and the local pharmacist had not got them in stock. They are charging us enough for them as the cost comes through taxation, I would definitely be complaining.
gctest50 wrote: » the Dexcom sensors are 7day ones people get 2 - 3 weeks out of one of them
Alanstrainor wrote: » Yeah these are 6 days. But don't last. Readings go haywire after around 24 hours i find. Which makes them completely useless.
Alanstrainor wrote: » My Medtronic CGM has been a shambles recently. Using Enlight sensors, and generally I only get them to work for about 24hrs before my results go haywire and I have to remove it. Very disappointing. I think a lot of this is to do with me being quite slim, and the sensors getting moved around once inserted. But of late, things have been particularly bad, far worse than before. Almost makes them a waste of time. Had to insert 3 sensors yesterday, on one, the electrode (or whatever you call the piece that stays inside you...) wasn't there at all, so there was no chance of it working. The other was giving mental numbers, and the last is working...for now. Very frustrating. And considering every enlight sensor costs about 70 quid, it's a bit ridiculous!
graflynn wrote: » Hi Alan, I don't know how long you have been having this trouble but it might be worth discussing your suitability to the Medtronic system and considering one of the others, or rather the other one? Another option is to try different sites (but you've probably done that). I hope it gets sorted for you soon.
CathyMoran wrote: » Probably not the best time but I am going to see about getting the pump again - I would need cgm but I do feel that it would make a huge difference - I have changed consultant to someone that I have had the fortune of attending in the past who was and is brilliant - will see. I already carb count but other medical issues complicate things (my digestion is variable for a start).
