While I was in the glucose and insulin area, after last week’s diabetes-related study, I thought I would step sideways into the more positive world of insulin sensitivity. If you read a lot of training blogs you’ll keep finding reference to training increasing insulin sensitivity and then getting some benefit from this by consuming certain [...]
Last year I took quite a bit of time over a series about diabetes. At the time I spent quite some time on type 1 diabetes, digging out a study that suggested this supposedly incurable form of diabetes was actually curable after all. However, when it came to type 2 diabetes I ended up giving [...]
This has been a long time in coming. The main reason for that, apart from the fact that things have been ridiculously busy at home, is that I struggled to know where to start with type 2 diabetes. While my research on type 1 diabetes threw up some very specific points and potential ways of [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diabetes·Diet·Glucose
Last week I went through the basics of type 1 diabetes including what is going on to cause elevated blood glucose levels in a type 1 diabetic, diagnosis, treatments and how being a type 1 diabetic can impact on exercise and training decisions. This week I’m going to look at something far more controversial – [...]
Tags:Diabetes·Paleo diet·Recovery
Last week I provided an introduction to diabetes mellitus, the group of metabolic diseases characterised by high blood glucose (sugar) levels. The most common forms of this are type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes and over the next few weeks I am going to look in more detail at types 1 and 2, starting [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diabetes·Diet·Training
There’s a high risk that any of us who live and eat by a westernised lifestyle may get diabetes at some point in our lives and on reading further I’m convinced that, with some basic understanding, we should be able to prevent it from happening. This is therefore the first in a series of three long [...]
