Eating out healthily, or trying to.

[papasmurf]

A separate blood test usually done alongside Hba1c will certainly show that...

They usually take an "armful" of blood tests, every three months from me.

[johnofgwent]

I have volunteered for an experimental medical treatment after being asked. ("You are going to die otherwise." being somewhat of an incentive.)
My wife and I both had to have counselling from a specialist nurse before I started the treatment. (They are choosy who is selected.)
I have thus far after about three months lost 15 kilos in weight, my blood pressure has dropped dramatically, as has my resting heart rate and my HbA1c reading, (whatever that is,) has dropped from 84 down to 46.

Hba1c is posh for diabetic.

84 is bad. 42 is borderline diabetes ? What diabetes ?

BUT

You know how carbon monoxide bonds to haemoglobin and buggers oxygen uptake ? Well, sugar bonds to blood cells and buggers them too.

So Hba1c is a test for how well sugared your blood is. As in how irreversibly screwed your blood is.

BUT the thing is

The test relies on blood cells being broken down, the haem re-circulated as bile and new cells made in the spleen etc.

If your liver is not up to the task of destroying cells, old ones linger and artificially boost the hba1c figure. Which Tel es for its accuracy on a presumption that blood cells are recycled as normal.


So what hba1c says is diabetes MIGHT be liver dysfunction failing to kill old and overburdened red cells.


A separate blood test usually done alongside Hba1c will certainly show that...

My original GP attended my university and I taught him.

As a result, conversations like "yes, the hba1c is high but fasting glucose old school NEVER is ... Is my liver in trouble ? ..would have him stop and ponder

His replacement now he's retired is a whippersnapper who has forgotten the first part of his Hippocratic oath called on him to respect those who taught the craft !

[papasmurf]

Strange cause the population of Cornwall has increased according to local studies.

It has but "white flighters," and rich zimmer frame pilots are not often available for work in hospitality, tourism, or agriculture. (There has been a large increase in people working via the internet.)

[Nick]

Lucky you it is now June 2021, and where I live the dire shortage of staff has made menus to be much reduced and frankly gone down market.

Strange cause the population of Cornwall has increased according to local studies.

[Nick]

FFS, there has been loads of comment about it, again I get the abuse for others not following current affairs:-

More at link and there are numerous other sources:-

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/number-of-overseas-nationals-leaving-uk-could-have-reached-1-3-million/

Up to 1.3 million overseas nationals have left the UK over the past year, with almost 700,000 non-UK born workers having vacated London alone, according to a study.

The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence found an "unprecedented" fall in the number of foreign-born residents in the UK when it applied an 'adjustment factor' to Labour Force Survey statistics.

Migrant workers
Migrant workers will be critical to the UK's economic rebirth

Change to visa concessions may have scuppered new year hiring

Its estimates relate to the change in the population between July- September 2019 to July-September 2020. The Office for National Statistics' Labour Force Survey, however, estimates that 893,000 non-UK residents have left the UK.



Detailed analysis here:-
https://www.escoe.ac.uk/estimating-the-uk-population-during-the-pandemic/

Neither of those websites are fact based, one of them is a form of recruitment site.
Can we have a less Mickey Mouse site to show your 1 million left? The official figures shows the opposite.

This is of course factual also..... https://www.tfes.org/

[papasmurf]

Good.

That will chase away the tourists.

That was not a quote by me.

[Borchester]

Argentine steak house

Good.

That will chase away the tourists.

[Streetwalker]

I would not eat beef from Argentina.

Yes , we know .

[papasmurf]

Only ever eat out at the Argentine steak house . Prime steaks and all that ,no fecking about with fat sugar or salts or whatever ,

How would you like it sir,

just pull the horns out and wipe its arse .

I would not eat beef from Argentina.

[Streetwalker]

Only ever eat out at the Argentine steak house . Prime steaks and all that ,no fecking about with fat sugar or salts or whatever ,

How would you like it sir,

just pull the horns out and wipe its arse .

[papasmurf]

Firstly, I stayed in hotels 133 nights in 2020 and found what ever meals out I wanted.

Lucky you it is now June 2021, and where I live the dire shortage of staff has made menus to be much reduced and frankly gone down market.

[papasmurf]

The government doesn't know about them but you do? Is that what you're saying?

I assume you're going to give your source for that figure cause the figure I can see is 60K more EU citizens came than left.

FFS, there has been loads of comment about it, again I get the abuse for others not following current affairs:-

More at link and there are numerous other sources:-

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/number-of-overseas-nationals-leaving-uk-could-have-reached-1-3-million/

Up to 1.3 million overseas nationals have left the UK over the past year, with almost 700,000 non-UK born workers having vacated London alone, according to a study.

The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence found an "unprecedented" fall in the number of foreign-born residents in the UK when it applied an 'adjustment factor' to Labour Force Survey statistics.

Migrant workers
Migrant workers will be critical to the UK's economic rebirth

Change to visa concessions may have scuppered new year hiring

Its estimates relate to the change in the population between July- September 2019 to July-September 2020. The Office for National Statistics' Labour Force Survey, however, estimates that 893,000 non-UK residents have left the UK.



Detailed analysis here:-
https://www.escoe.ac.uk/estimating-the-uk-population-during-the-pandemic/

[Nick]

The million EU citizens who left are not part of that dataset.

The government doesn't know about them but you do? Is that what you're saying?

I assume you're going to give your source for that figure cause the figure I can see is 60K more EU citizens came than left.

[papasmurf]

Firstly, I stayed in hotels 133 nights in 2020 and found what ever meals out I wanted.

Secondly, in 2020 715,000 people moved to the UK and only 403,000 left so your theory of everyone has buggered off is not correct. It has slowed in 2021 but the trend is still more coming in that leaving.

The million EU citizens who left are not part of that dataset.

[Nick]

However the pandemic, coupled with Brexit mean all the local places to eat out are desperately short of staff

Firstly, I stayed in hotels 133 nights in 2020 and found what ever meals out I wanted.

Secondly, in 2020 715,000 people moved to the UK and only 403,000 left so your theory of everyone has buggered off is not correct. It has slowed in 2021 but the trend is still more coming in that leaving.