May I recommend. . .

[Stanley]

I just tripped over this short explanation and found it helpful.....

[Stanley]

This came to mind the other day. It was played frequently on the wireless and I doubt if anyone of my generation missed it!
Manchester school children and the Hallé Orchestra in 1929. Music was very important to us in those days.....

[Stanley]

And here's another favourite from those days.... Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill singing the duet 'Au fond du temple saint' from the Pearl Fishers.

[Stanley]

I tripped over this..... quite brilliant!

[Tripps]

I've had that clip fed to me as well - amazing.

Just had a reminisce back through this thread. fascinating.

The early posts on page 1 concerning diet were interesting. I suggested recently that SCG might not any longer be diabetic. He quickly denied it and said the blood tests indicated otherwise

From November 2016 - on a diet of mainly Mutton stews and Stuart's steak puddings ) we find

"It works for me as well David. I am no longer regarded as Type 2 but pre-diabetic".


I don't understand how a subsequent change to a zero carb diet can restore Type 2 Diabetes.

The diagnosis of Pre - diabetes has always seemed a bit suspicious. I suspect money is involved somewhere.

Discuss.

[Wendyf]

Stanley's diet certainly isn't zero carb, but don't forget that type 2 diabetes is a progressive disease, it gets harder to maintain lower blood sugars.

[Big Kev]

don't forget that type 2 diabetes is a progressive disease, it gets harder to maintain lower blood sugars.

It does indeed.

[Tripps]

Stanley's diet certainly isn't zero carb,

Fair enough - delete 'zero' and insert 'low', though the regular 'meat and veggies x three' seems pretty close. I don't see how changing the diet to what it is now, can have resulted in a recurrence of diabetes.

I'll say no more - but I recall it was you who introduced me to the idea of low carb diet. A while ago, and memory fades, but I think you quoted a doctor from Southport (I think ) who was an early adopter. He did a rather severe variation, with only about 500 calories a day for a few weeks if I remember correctly. He 'cured' many patients of the disease.

[Wendyf]

Tripps, root vegetables contain a lot of carbohydrates, it's only green veg that don't. I don't often look at what Stanley eats but I notice he drinks plenty milk which is high in carbs as are tomatoes etc etc.
The very low calorie diet was introduded by Michael Moseley not the Southport Doctor.
A low carb diet helps hugely but it doesn't stop the pancreas failing over time. People who reversed their diabetes did it through weight loss.

[Tripps]

I may have confused - to some extent - low carb with low calorie, though they are connected. Anyway here is the original article

The Doctor was one Dr Unwin from Southport. I do hope his name wasn't Stanley.

I think life's too short to worry about the carbohydrate content of a tomato.

Dr Unwin

[Tripps]

On a lighter note - and back on topic, with some handy hints on veggie cooking.

Here's a video of someone buying a TV from Garlick' s in the 1950's

[Stanley]

I eat more green veggies than root veggies and I think that's what saves me. (Plus the fact that meat is low carb!)
I fell in love with the ten year old violinist.....