OneGuyFromBarlick

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

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.....

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.

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

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.

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.

Wendyf wrote: ↑19 Oct 2025, 15:56 don't forget that type 2 diabetes is a progressive disease, it gets harder to maintain lower blood sugars.

It does indeed.

Wendyf wrote: ↑19 Oct 2025, 15:56 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.

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.

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

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

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.....