Carb test

That doesn't surprise me at all bags as I know I have no problem with carbs, but DH does, and type 2 diabetes runs in his family. Several years ago he was told he was pre-diabetic and I put him on a low carb diet. He found it hard, but he lost weight and his blood glucose returned to normal.

But over the next couple of years he gradually regressed until he was pre-diabetic again. It was because I continued to eat carbs, and as they were in the house in the form of breads, jams, biscuits, etc. he found it hard to resist. I decided I'd just have to decarb the house, and go on his low-carb régime with him.

It was a bit like one of a couple trying to give up smoking while the other puffed away.

I've always wondered though which came first, an almost addiction to carbs leading to type 2 diabetes or an inherited tendancy to type 2 which makes some people crave carbs?

I might try your test next time there's a cracker in the house!! DH us back to normal blood sugar levels and other health problems are much less obvious.

Anya your story is like mine when it comes to DH. I do not have biscuits and sweet things in the house as neither of us has a sweet tooth but DH started having toast for breakfast instead of eggs or bacon.

Unfortunately me joining him is out of the question as I used an alternative test to see if I required carbohydrates. I tried the Atkins diet, which DH thrived on. The first attempt lasted 10 days. I felt quite ill after the 4th day and by the 10th I was faced with eating carbs or taking a sickie. I had toast for breakfast instead of a similar calorie value protein one and within an hour I felt better. A sandwich at lunch and I was fine. I tried it again a few months later and had to give up after 4 days because I felt so ill. I didn't even lose any weight on the diet either.

Now, I include a small portion of carbohydrates in all my meals. I know that carbohydrate-free eating is emphatically not for me.

I don't believe we need "different diets tailored to our own genes"

Just don't believe it.

#bollocks

(The hashtag was for *bags's eyes only)

jbf that sounds a bit old-fashioned. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that our bodies react in many different ways to all kinds of things; the effectiveness of drugs, the variation in the composition of the bacteria in our guts and elsewhere, not to mention allergies (I mean very clear allergies, not the ones based on how people 'feel'). Our bodies do react very differently to different stimuli and I cannot see any reason why that should not apply to the composition of our food intake.

That's really interesting, thatbags! I can't try it at the moment as I haven't any unsalted cracker biscuits (that probably says something about me!) but will buy some next time I go to the shops.

The only crackers I have in the house at the moment are salt and pepper ones. It doesn't work with them - I chewed it for over a minute with no sweet taste. By then it had disintegrated. I'll have another go when I have some unsalted ones.

I appreciate the personal bollocks, jings, so to speak

I will try this when I haven't had a couple of glasses of wine

Thank you for this, I recently had a test for coeliac disease which was negative; however, at least one other member of the family has been diagnosed.
I am wondering if I could be 'intolerant' without having it.

DH has found that cutting out carbs makes a huge difference to his diabetes. I'm continuing to eat them as normal so I'll give this a try and see if I should be cutting down. I remember us chewing bread in biology classes at school to prove that starches turned to sugar, but no one bothered about how long it took.

Would a lightly salted whole grain low fat rice cake do? No crackers in at the moment.

Actually I will eat some anyway.