I have began taking chromium and zinc to help moderate bg fluctuations.
Anyone have anything to say about chromium ?
                                                   Thanks.......Ken

E. Coli scare and mushrooms.
BJ's recalls mushrooms on E. coli suspicion
Warehouse club operator pulls items from shelves after routine testing
finds possible presence of deadly bacteria.

Well, I've had my carbs for the last three days, and I'm ready to fail
with flying colors tomorrow.  Actually, I'm not so worried anymore. I
know I'll fail, but then I can start on meds and such and get by BG's
under control again. My higher carb days did indeed spike me above ...

Hi. This one is a bit embarrassing to discuss but I suppose it
probably gets asked here from time to time, so here we go again.  :-)
Haven't done any personal research on this one yet, well, only minor
research. I read ginkgo biloba might help so I took huge quantities

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Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2001 Aug;13(8):985-8.  Links

I ran across this article today about nopal, a blood sugar reducing plant.
Don't know if it works or not, but it may be of interest to people on this
group.
http://www.newstarget.com/021626.html

Hello again group,
There is new evidence that the flavonols found in dark chocolate (cocoa) may
have tremendous health benefits in aiding the circultion of blood in the
brain, thus helping to stave off dementia...

I'm doing better, pre breakfast test today was 114, and it was 198
2 hours after lunch. I have cut down on my carbs and eating more
vegetables and meat. Before I became diabetic, I almost never ate
vegetables. They would always try to get me but I don't like them. Now

My Dr. just put me on 5 mcg Byetta. How long until I notice a difference in
bg. My basic problem is fbg. I am usually around 180 at 8:00 am. The rest of
the day I am pretty low after meals. Last a1c was 5.8
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabbado

Australia set to test insulin 'vaccine' for juvenile diabetes.
If your family members have Diabetes Type I than you have a greater risk of
develloping this desease.So can Diabetes Type I be prevented by a
vaccine-like approach ?

I have been taking Byetta for a year and suddenly I am having problems
with sudden vomiting upon waking in the morning.  This has just
happened for the third time, seperated by a couple of weeks each.
Has anybody had anything like this?  I am floundering about for

Got a call from my practice nurse today, my hba1c is back, unfortunately it
has only lowered to 8.7% from 9.2% although I am not too discouraged by
this, as if I'm correct, this looks back at the last 8 weeks? which was the
christmas period as well, I have also only been ...

convicted neighbor Kumar wrote:

"Do you mean hunger of food or hunger of needed nutrients? "

on the news tonight there was a report that there is another
case of tainted pb in wyoming, this makes over 300 so far.
then they said that there is a recall on
Oscar Mayer/Louis Rich 6oz packages