Cardiovascular health – are eggs in or out?

14th July, 2019 First, it’s not good, then it’s Ok and now we are not sure. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. We are talking about eggs and the association with cardiovascular disease and mortality. It’s stuck in many of our and our patients’ minds that eggs are no good. It doesn’t help when the […]

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Metformin in Pregnancy – first do no harm?

Primum non nocere (first do no harm) is quite an appropriate term when is comes to managing pregnant women who either have dysglycaemia or are at risk of dysglycaemia. While there is no question that hyperglycaemia during pregnancy is associated with both poor maternal and foetal outcomes as well as epigenetics changes which can affect […]

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Does Vitamin C reduce plasma glucose?

Increased oxidative stress appears to be a significant factor leading to insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia, β-cell dysfunction, impaired glucose tolerance and ultimately leading to type 2 diabetes (T2D). Ascorbic acid (AA) is a water soluble anti-oxidant that reduces oxidative damage at the cellular and tissue level. So, logically, AA supplementation should therefore reduce oxidate stress and […]

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Do all fat kids become diabetics? If not, who does?

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! As GPs, we often see little kids already carrying extra weight and we know that many of these will go on to become overweight or obese adults. Many overweight kids and overweight adults will go on to develop type 2 […]

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