Re: Eggs and Diabetes

Mary Fisher wrote:

Spouse is high (yes I know, entirely the wrong type), I'm not and our
eating habits are idential, he's more active than I am.

Lots of it is genetic.


She went down the drug control route

He won't. Nor would I.

Suits her and means she can more or less eat what she likes. Cream is her
downfall.


I did some homework and spent a year - no eggs, no dairy, no red
meat. Lots of oat bran, some garlic and a little red wine.

We both eat lots of oats, very few eggs, lots of garlic and wine. His
level goes up and down with no change in diet or activity.

Its oatbran thats effective.
Might be worth a try - very easy to incorporate into many dishes without any
difficulty


To control it - Oatbran is your best buddy. Takes the cholestrol out
of your system
Makes great porridge if you add soya milk and nuke it for a short
time. add fruit and its scrummy

I hate soya milk with a passion and it too has good and bad
reputations in terms of some cancers.

Its useful pre-menopausal ;)
And keeps me off the milk.
I hate it in most other forms. I can just about bear in in my nightly
Horlicks


I much prefer Oatly (an oat milk substitute).

that would be fine.


Add oatbran as a thickener to every sauce you can. Its really easy.

We rarely make thickened sauces.

Its not a bad thing to do - like mopping up the juices of a stew etc.
It goes into homemade burgers etc etc -- you have the skills to work it out
if you want to.
;)


Avoid milk as much as you can.

Or replace it with Oatly.

Yes
or Soya for those who can

Eat only really good red meat - don't waste the cholesterol on ready
meals.
Eat eggs in the forms that you most appreciate.
For me : quiche, souffle, boiled eggs and the piecederesistance
double egg and chips -- oh to die for!!!

Bleurch!

But yes, to die for in some cases :-(

We all have our favourites


Garlic is also another great anticholesterol agent as is a little
red wine

More is even better :-)

I know that calling "you" a glutton is no insult !


Being on such a regime can be great fun. Just ditch any junk food and
realy appreciate what you eat and why -- gourmet is right.

We have NO junk food and appreciate everything we eat and drink, it's
the best in every way.

I would not dare to preach to you.
But cholesterol is made in our bodies whether
we eat the 'wrong' things or not. Not that it was ever heard about
until relatively recently and we still survived.

yeah and nay


As did Eskimoes ...

very different diet
but then you know that!


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Jill Bowis

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