In reply to Tim Chappell:
"I did eat my way through 2 packs of shortcake and one pack of Hobnobs, and I drank about 3l, and I ate a full meal before I started, and I stopped for tea + cake twice. Without that I might well have been reduced to a blubbering hypoglycaemic heap."
A friend of mine once told me that you are your own guinea pig and that there is nothing wrong with experimenting with yourself and noting the results.
Anyway - I used to suffer really badly with low blood sugar - I mean it used to make me ill, although the doctors tested me and said I was just outside the range they would diagnose diabetes (no dietary advice - obviously!).
Deep down (all addicts know what ills them) I knew that sugar was the problem and decided to cut all refined sugars from my diet as an experiment. I then spent 2 weeks climbing the walls like I had quit a junk habit - but after this started to feel really well. This was nearly 2 years ago and now I avoid 'the white plague' at all costs. I now almost never go hypo and if I do it's from too much dried fruit.
Also, several people I have known for a long time commented on how well I started to look (nicer skin, less body odour in very little time).
Why not try something like Nairns rough oatcakes instead of hob knobs and nuts instead of shortbread?
Further reading can be found in 'Sugar Blues' by William Dufty and 'Pure, White and Deadly' by John Yudkin.
1 in 7 people in the UK will develop type 2 diabetes, which is a modern disease directly related to consumption of sugar.
Don't become a statistic Tim! Sounds like your pancreas is already having trouble controlling your insulin (1 teaspoon of sugar will require insulin to regulate your natural balance and the pancreas is a candle that will burn out if over used).
Call me a heretic if you want, but hopefully I have said enough to plant a seed!
