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  1. Research catching up with what we knew for years: Prediabetes, other metabolic syndromes could be linked to neuropathy healio.com/endocrinology/… 8:29 PM May 21st via web
  2. Detecting genotypes predicted adult type 2 diabetes in adolescents healio.com/endocrinology/… 6:30 PM May 16th via web
  3. You're type 2 and you are eating what the dietician told you to, but your numbers are too high? Begin here: loraldiabetes.blogspot.com.au/2006/10/d-day.… 11:45 PM May 15th via web
  4. Gannon and Nuttall's LoBAG story from 2007 but still valid: Dietary Management of Type 2 Diabetes: A Personal Odyssey jacn.org/content/26/2/8… 11:42 PM May 15th via web
  5. Medical Daily Report on that Swedish Study: medicaldaily.com/news/20120512/… 6:36 PM May 15th via web
  6. Swedish study: a low-carbohydrate diet improves type 2 diabetes glycaemic control springerlink.com/content/b56453… 6:34 PM May 15th via web
  7. Be aware that alternate site testing may have delays: care.diabetesjournals.org/content/25/6/9… This may help with the fingertips: loraldiabetes.blogspot.com.au/2006/10/painle… 6:16 PM May 13th via web
  8. How to aid tight blood glucose control with dietary change: loraldiabetes.blogspot.com.au/2006/10/test-r… 6:03 PM May 12th via web
  9. Taubes is on target again. Why the Campaign to Stop America's Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing. thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/… 6:01 PM May 12th via web
  10. Tight control may help avoid dementia and Alzheimers: medscape.com/viewarticle/76… 6:00 PM May 12th via web
  11. Good news for world health IMO.Pfizer stops promoting Lipitor in US theheart.org/article/139667… My reasons: loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2009/10/choles… 5:59 PM May 12th via web
  12. Are you finding testing painful? Try this: loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2006/10/painle… 12:43 AM May 12th via web
  13. New post on my travel blog: Bartering and Haggling in Foreign Lands loraltravel.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/barter… 8:00 PM May 4th via web
  14. Just back from the podiatrist. All OK apart from Plantars Fasciitis returning after too much walking in China. Time to relax 4 a while :) 7:23 PM May 2nd via web
  15. Home again, very tired but happy to be home after our China trip. 9:04 PM Apr 28th via web
  16. @Richard1573 G'day Richard. Thanks for following both. Despite being in China I've let my "travel" tweet a/c lie moribund for a while :) 6:32 PM Apr 11th via web
  17. Sniffles are gone; today saw the Forbidden City. TIL to read beercan labels; lychee beer ain't beer and sends BGs up :) loraldiabetes.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/what-o… 3:34 AM Apr 11th via web
  18. I hate it when I get a cold in a foreign land. Spent most of my time in Suzhou going though a box of tissues in bed. Beijing tomorrow. 6:12 AM Apr 7th via web
  19. China: a land where both the food and beer are luke-warm. My numbers are OK provided I avoid the rice and noodles loraldiabetes.blogspot.com.au/2006/10/test-r… 7:22 PM Apr 6th via web
  20. @MadeForYouFoods I'll try, or by twitter. Remind me in May :) 8:15 AM Apr 2nd via web in reply to MadeForYouFoods
  • Name Alan Shanley
  • Location Australia
  • Web http://loraldiabe...
  • Bio I'm an Aussie who, when I'm not wandering remote parts of the world, writes about managing type 2 diabetes using home BG testing to monitor diet.
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