Well, we got through the holiday season. Mostly. A new year is upon us, and this is the time when many people evaluate their diets, looking for something better.
When you have diabetes, you'll get advice from all sorts of dietary experts, some of them telling you to eat lots of carbohydrate and very...
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I might see if the Cardiochek is available in the UK, one of their current cost-saving measures is to do TChol rather than full lipid panel (and that only annually) my GP did have the sense to do a non-fasting as well as a fasting test before this restriction was imposed and there wasn't much difference, so I must be doing something right! With the increasing restrictions also imposed on test strips it's plausible that they will make this unavailable OTC, after all we can't have patients actually getting feedback can we, they might start eating all the Wrong Things (and getting better)
This is what they are spending the money on instead
http://www.nhs.uk/Change4Life/Pages/default.aspx
(sponsored by Kelloggs Unilever and Tesco so no bias there then)