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ukhomeopath said:
I avoided fish because I had cholesterol. Now after learning more about the fish we eat, I have no desire to go back to it 🙂
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The omega 3 oils in oily fish are supposed to be beneficial to maintaining good cholesterol levels - the main reason I eat them! 🙂
Ode to Oily Fish

Oh oily fish! Dear oily fish!
By far and away my favourite dish!
Infuse me with your Omega 3,
Please oily fish, come dine with me!

Oh, take away my chicken bhuna!
Replace it with a slab of tuna!
And though I love the taste of gammon,
I'd much prefer some Scottish salmon!

Imagine eating with every course
Some pilchards in tomato sauce!
If every herring could be mine,
Then life on Earth would be divine!

So, fill me up with oily fish!
Believe me, it’s my dearest wish!
My heart’s desire, where have you been?
Embrace me now, oh plump sardine!

:D
 
LOL.... love your ode Northerner :D

I think I had better amend my conservative estimate of how much oily fish I eat coz I left off the pilchards and sardines I eat which amount to about 4 times a week without the salmon and tuna I consume😱
 
macast said:
LOL.... love your ode Northerner :D

I think I had better amend my conservative estimate of how much oily fish I eat coz I left off the pilchards and sardines I eat which amount to about 4 times a week without the salmon and tuna I consume😱
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They were on Country file this morning catching "pilchards" off the coast of Cornwall. Turns out "pilchard" is a just a Cornish name for a large sardine. They have been rebranded as "Cornish Sardines" and sales of them( fresh) have taken off. Must lokokm out for some in the shops.
 
Northerner said:
The omega 3 oils in oily fish are supposed to be beneficial to maintaining good cholesterol levels - the main reason I eat them! 🙂

:D
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You can get Omega 3 from walnuts too, and it is much more healthier.
In the states, the government tells you depending on the state, what fish you can have and how often! Why ? Because of mercury poisoning as well as other chemicals in the fish that comes from the water!
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/fish/eating/safeeating.html
 
Hello again, Mohamed - relieved to see that my welcome wasn't in vain 🙂
Must admit that your original username prompted caution, so it was good to see you explain yourself - think the new username will help.
Cheers, Chris.
 
chrismbee said:
Hello again, Mohamed - relieved to see that my welcome wasn't in vain 🙂
Must admit that your original username prompted caution, so it was good to see you explain yourself - think the new username will help.
Cheers, Chris.
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Thanks Chris 🙂
 
Hi Mohamed and welcome.

Interested on your take on oily fish??

I was diagnosed in November 2010 and am on Metformin twice daily. There doesn't seem to be any hard or fast rule as to who stays on meds and who controls through diet and exercise. I'm still on meds but my recent Hba1c was 6.5%:confused:
Donna
 
donnarob said:
Hi Mohamed and welcome.

Interested on your take on oily fish??

I was diagnosed in November 2010 and am on Metformin twice daily. There doesn't seem to be any hard or fast rule as to who stays on meds and who controls through diet and exercise. I'm still on meds but my recent Hba1c was 6.5%:confused:
Donna
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Hello Donna
Thank you.
Your HBA1c at 6.5 is very good. Do you know what it was before, when you were diagnosed?

** I just saw that your HBA1c was 10.5%. WOW, that is a big drop in 2 months? How did you manage that. Amazing.
 
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Hi Mohamed,

I cut out potatoes, rice, pasta and bread. I thought I'd been following a healthy diet but on hindsight the tweaks made all the difference.

To be honest, I never felt great after eating bread or rice as I used to get heartburn with bread and bloating with rice. I don't suffer from that anymore.

Donna 🙂
 
donnarob said:
Hi Mohamed,

I cut out potatoes, rice, pasta and bread. I thought I'd been following a healthy diet but on hindsight the tweaks made all the difference.

To be honest, I never felt great after eating bread or rice as I used to get heartburn with bread and bloating with rice. I don't suffer from that anymore.

Donna 🙂
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That is very interesting Donna. I actually eat a lot of potatoes, brown rice and wholemeal bread and it does not raise my BG level. Even pasta I would have 2 servings when my wife cooks it (cannot resist as it is so tasty 🙂)
I understand about the bloating, but was your BG level high when you eat the potatoes, rice, pasta and bread.
 
I did a quick google search on oily fish and pollution and found this webpage.

http://www.brist.plus.com/dietfish.htm

interesting reading. I'd never given it any thought. The limits are quite high but I guess it's up to the individual to interpret the advice accordingly.🙂

Rob
 
Mohamed said:
I understand about the bloating, but was your BG level high when you eat the potatoes, rice, pasta and bread.
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Hi Mohammed

You've not been around here long, so forgive me if you know all this already... For most T2's it seems that the only way to assess what carbs they can cope with eating is using a BG meter. (This is not easy if your GP is one of the 'Type 2's don't need to test' variety). The only option for some is to self-fund. But even then seems that it is a price worth paying.

The trick seems to be testing 1 hour and 2 hours after meals to try to find the timing of your usual 'peak' (this varies from person to person but is often there or thereabouts). After 2 hours BGs seem to be falling (phase 2 insulin I think). If you get a 'spike' of high BG 1 hour after a meal try reducing the portion size of the main carbs in it, and replace them with carb-fre veg or similar. One of the tricky things is that everyone's tolerance is different, and also can vary during the course of the day (mornings are usually the most difficult).

Lucky you for having a decent tolerance to pasta, though it'd be interesting to see what happens to your BGs if you haven't tested this already.

Cheers
M
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Hi Mohammed

You've not been around here long, so forgive me if you know all this already... For most T2's it seems that the only way to assess what carbs they can cope with eating is using a BG meter. (This is not easy if your GP is one of the 'Type 2's don't need to test' variety). The only option for some is to self-fund. But even then seems that it is a price worth paying.

The trick seems to be testing 1 hour and 2 hours after meals to try to find the timing of your usual 'peak' (this varies from person to person but is often there or thereabouts). After 2 hours BGs seem to be falling (phase 2 insulin I think). If you get a 'spike' of high BG 1 hour after a meal try reducing the portion size of the main carbs in it, and replace them with carb-fre veg or similar. One of the tricky things is that everyone's tolerance is different, and also can vary during the course of the day (mornings are usually the most difficult).

Lucky you for having a decent tolerance to pasta, though it'd be interesting to see what happens to your BGs if you haven't tested this already.

Cheers
M
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Hello M
I was given the glucometer with 50 strips. I did check my BG readings regularly when I was experimenting with the various foods. Pasta, whole meal bread, red rice ( I prefer red to brown, though brown is healthier out of the two but red is better than white) all give me good readings.. under 7.8 after 2 hrs.
 
7.8 at 2 hours seems pretty decent, and falls within the DUK guidelines I think.

Would be interesting to see what your 1 hour reading was though (whether it was significantly higher or more or less the same). Some T2 folks were posting results in a thread about cereals recently and some exhibited a fairly flat profile while others were up above 15 at 1 hour but down to much 'nicer' numbers at 2 hours.

The other thing I've noticed T2's mentioning is the improvement in insulin sensitivity following weight loss (though this may not be a factor in your case)

Mike
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
7.8 at 2 hours seems pretty decent, and falls within the DUK guidelines I think.

Would be interesting to see what your 1 hour reading was though (whether it was significantly higher or more or less the same). Some T2 folks were posting results in a thread about cereals recently and some exhibited a fairly flat profile while others were up above 15 at 1 hour but down to much 'nicer' numbers at 2 hours.

The other thing I've noticed T2's mentioning is the improvement in insulin sensitivity following weight loss (though this may not be a factor in your case)

Mike
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Hello Mike

last July (2010), my highest 1hr was 9.8 and 2hr was 8.4 and 6.7 ( I had 9.8 on two separate days. I have not recorded any 1hr reading after July. Bear in mind, I was not on any medications too with these readings! I stopped all my meds in Jan 2010.
 
Mohamed said:
Hello Mike

last July (2010), my highest 1hr was 9.8 and 2hr was 8.4 and 6.7 ( I had 9.8 on two separate days. I have not recorded any 1hr reading after July. Bear in mind, I was not on any medications too with these readings! I stopped all my meds in Jan 2010.
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Have you stopped testing now ? What was your last HbA1c please ?
 
mcdonagh47 said:
Have you stopped testing now ? What was your last HbA1c please ?
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No I havent stopped testing but I dont do the 1hr anymore.
I test the 2hr maybe 10-20 days in a month and the fasting every day ( they have cut our strips down to 50 :( )
My latest HBA1c done in Feb (this month) is 6.4%, and fasting 5.7

Regards
 
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